Database Selection Weekly Brief for Backend Engineers

DB Engineering Weekly: May 10–17, 2026

Backend-engineer brief for May 10–17: four CVSS 8.8 CVEs across PostgreSQL and MongoDB demand immediate patching; Qdrant v1.18 ships TurboQuant (8× compression); Neon's FPW disable yields 4.5× write throughput; Shopify's Redis→MySQL post-mortem traces the real culprit to connection leakage.