Postgres 10 is starting to come together and there are a lot of exciting changes. At the top of the list there’s a number of Parallelism improvements, some already committed and some hopefully still to be committed.
Citus extends Postgres to easily shard your data. They launched a managed service on top of AWS a year ago and here’s a number of the learnings from running a database as a service.
Tools to secure PG databases in distributed environments. Selectively encrypt records and detect potential intrusions and SQL injections. Mongo & MySQL support promised soon. More here.
“What to do when things get too big to be stored inline in the database but we still want all that juicy transaction safety and read-write locks without building your own gatekeeping solution?”