Database Technology Trends and Developments in 2025: A Year in Review
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Summary
The article provides a comprehensive year-in-review analysis of database technology trends and developments in 2025, written from a personal perspective by someone who nearly died during the spring semester but persisted to document the major happenings. It covers significant industry developments including Databricks raising two massive funding rounds instead of going public, the emergence of 'vibe coding' as a concept, and various other database-related trends and events throughout the year.
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Nevertheless, I will go through what I think are the major trends and happenings in databases over the last year.
There were many exciting and unprecedented developments in the world of databases.
Vibe coding entered the vernacular.
Rather than raising one massive funding round this year instead of going public, Databricks raised two massive rounds instead of go
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
