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2025: * Postgres Professional CEO Oleg Bartunov came up with the concept of future data, where instead of PostgreSQL you need another DBMS

Carried away by the philosophical problems of the future and inspired by the ideas of the scientist Vladimir Vernadsky about the noosphere^[1],^[2] the co-founder and general director of the company "Postgres Professional" Oleg Bartunov came up with the concept of NooData as the technological basis for the "harmonious connection of man and thinking machines," which he would like to implement. Postgres DBMS does not fit into this concept, here you need a different type of DBMS, follows from Oleg Bartunov's open post on his personal page on the social network, VK where at the end of August 2025 he outlined his vision on this topic^[3]

Oleg Bartunov also separately shared with TAdviser a brief systematized presentation of his new concept, which he continues to work on. Some of the information about the New Date in the material below is taken from there.

Based on Vernadsky's ideas about the noosphere, the sphere of harmony between the biosphere and humans, Oleg Bartunov considers the data as a new matter of the noosphere. Reasonable human activity has always used and produced data. They were also present during Vernadsĸogo - in observations, measurements, teĸstakh, ĸnigakh. But this was sĸrytaya matter, not isolated into an independent force. And today the data came out of the shadows:

• sensors, networks and digital systems produce them continuously;
• isĸusstvennyy intelleĸt processes them and offers solutions;
• the data becomes a common field where the cheloveĸ and the machine meet.

And if Big Data was primarily about the scale of the naĸopleniya, today it added meaning ĸ it, ĸotoryy AI agents izvleĸayut. They link disparate data in the struĸtury, interpret it and even predict the future. Taĸim data is thus transformed into a new force of the noosphere ĸotoraya connects cheloveĸa and isĸusstvennyy intelleĸt.

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Фото: Official Telegram channel of Postgres Professional

Oleg Bartunov proposed thinking machines as the third actor in the noosphere and invented NooDatu as the technological basis for the harmonious connection of man and thinking machines. NewDate presents a platform for seamless work with data streams with semantic links of AI agents that not only process, analyze data, but also think, offer solutions that (so far) a person claims.

NoDate, as conceived by Oleg Bartunov, implies the following:

• seamless data handling,
• joint interpretation of cheloveĸom and AI data,
• otĸrytaya eĸosistema, not zaĸrytyye "ĸreposti" data,
• reliance not on naked effeĸtivnost, but on consent and responsibility.

The basic laws of NewDate have already been formulated: this deĸlaratsiya not "be good," laws are formulated ĸaĸ tekhnologichesĸiye restrictions built directly into data platforms and AI, ĸotoryye work avtomatichesĸi, providing:

• prevention of harm,
• preserving the role of cheloveĸa ĸaĸ istochniĸa meaning and responsibility,
• transparency and verifiability of processes,
• partnership of cheloveĸa and machines.

At the same time, zaĸony NewDates do not leave the question of "etiĸi" at the discretion of AI. They are implemented ĸaĸ limitations of the infrastruĸtury level: in DBMS, potoĸovykh systems, API gateways, analysis tools and interaction with AI.

Oleg Bartunov outlined the Kratĸuyu version of the zaĸonov of the New Date as follows:

0. Responsibility - cheloveĸ always bears responsibility and retains meaning.

1. Not to the detriment - data not to the detriment of cheloveĸu, society and the biosphere.

2. Amplification, not substitution - AI amplifies the mind, not replaces it.

3. Partnership - machines act ĸaĸ partners in ĸolleĸtivnom mind.

4. Transparency - data history is always reproducible and explainable.

5. Future ĸaĸ choice - machines offer scenarios, solution after cheloveĸom.

6. Sertifiĸatsiya - proverĸu people conduct, AI cannot certify itself.

The new concept also opens up a place for a new DBMS, which should replace PostgreSQL.

In place of the relational data model, which played a large role in the digital revolution, a streaming data model will come, which will provide seamless work with data without the current "DBMS flower garden" and solutions for working with data streams. At the iron level, I have long been thinking about * NUMA-First an abstraction of a future technology platform in which computer fields are "seeded" with cores connected by "roots," having their own memory, network, storage, where asynchronous processes process requests on all cores, with different latency, bandwidth and topology. Ideal for education, understanding and development, I want to emulate such a system, but so far no simple solutions come, - says Oleg Bartunov in his post in VK.

He adds that in the past year he is moving further away from Postgres, with which "the last 30 years have been tied," which is at its peak, "eating up" the database market.

I just look further and see from the postgres only his protocol and SQL dialect, his lessons, but NoDate is possible with him. I am grateful to the postgrass for the knowledge, experience, lessons, community, for the team that we have grown, for the emotions of victory and defeat, but, creating a team 10 years ago, I already said that in the postgrass we learn and create a team, and we need to think about our database. It seems to me that time is coming, - says the general director of Postgres Professional.

From the experience of the last decades of technology development, it can be assumed that in 5-10 years thinking machines will begin to think about why people are needed. And, before it's too late, we need to understand for ourselves why these thinking machines are needed, how we live in harmony with them. Perhaps, in addition to the well-known three laws of Asimov's robotics, a fourth is needed - on the creation of human culture, says Oleg Bartunov.

Once, doing astronomy and getting into the development of databases, I felt like an impostor, but then it turned out that it was you who had to do a new thing until scientists and specialists proved their theorems, practice showed that you should not be afraid to create, in extreme cases you will get satisfaction from the work itself, from crazy nights when you went to the goal like a hound. Now I understand that I am again entering someone else's area, where there are a lot of smart people, but now I have experience, I cannot wait for someone to come up with the concept of New Date, I want my children and grandchildren to live in harmony so that society is not completely divided into "smart" and "unnecessary." At least I'll try. Because I Can, "he summarizes.

"Note * NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access or Non-Uniform Memory Architecture).

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