It would be interesting to see a "new and noteworthy" section in these types of news recaps. There's always a lot of hype around new databases, and it'd be nice to see an unbiased perspective from someone with such deep knowledge of database systems, similar to Aphyr's deep dives into consistency and durability.

This seems focused on only SQL systems, and only the largest ones, which is okay, but I think there's a lot more to the story than that :)