Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures.

PostgreSQL has been in development and use for over 35 years. Throughout those years, the project that started as an open-source relational database for transactional workloads has turned into one of the most reliable and comprehensive database solutions for a variety of use cases. The depth and breadth of PostgreSQL’s capabilities have become so rich that you might hear “just use Postgres” if you ask for advice about database options for your next application.