r/Database

85k members
r/Database is a subreddit with 85k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses database, sql, postgres, struggling with database, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review database, toolset, and front end.

Popular Themes in r/Database

#1
Advice Requests
: "SereneDB — anyone here using it? Trying to avoid yet another Postgres + Elastic + ETL stack"
9 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What data migration tools have actually been worth using?"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "What PostgreSQL problems are actually painful enough to pay for?"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/Database

#1

Database

: "What made you choose your current Database?"
100 posts
#2

Sql

: "40 TB PostgreSql on-prem — sharding vs ClickHouse vs something else for a 500B-row time-series workload"
31 posts
#3

Postgres

: "40 TB PostgresQL on-prem — sharding vs ClickHouse vs something else for a 500B-row time-series workload"
25 posts
#4

Struggling With Database

13 posts
#5

Struggling

9 posts
#6

Mysql

: "Mysql Family Picture"
8 posts
#7

Sqlite

: "How (and why) rqlite takes control of the Sqlite Write-Ahead Log"
8 posts
#8

Schema

: "An easy way to handle Schema evolution and generate SQL migrations."
6 posts
#9

Ai

6 posts
#10

Redis

: "Redis is not a database no matter how many times you SET something"
6 posts

Products Discussed in r/Database

Database

5 reviews
#1
SQLite
5.0 from 1 review
#2
Vultr
5.0 from 1 review
#3
CockroachDB
5.0 from 1 review

Toolset

3 reviews
#1
Document Database
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Graph Database
2.0 from 1 review
#3
Relational Database
4.0 from 1 review

Front End

2 reviews
#1
Microsoft
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Jam.py
5.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/Database

Yearly
+19k members(29.1%)

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Last updated: June 28, 2026