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MySQL. Still more popular than Postgres.

• sairamkunala 9y ago
  I have read an article which claims LAMP stack has made MySQL preferred to Postgres.
• X-Istence 9y ago
  Many people on MacOS use Postgres.app for their PostgreSQL needs. http://postgresapp.com http://postgresapp.com
  • kalleboo 9y ago
    And and I'm sure many people use the mysql.com installer for MySQL https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
  • lavalike 9y ago
    Postico[1] too. It's really wonderful. [1]https://eggerapps.at/postico/ https://eggerapps.at/postico/
• cyberferret 9y ago
  MongoDB on the podium too... Interesting to see MariaDB in the middle of that list though...
• ianai 9y ago
  With both numbering in the 6 figures and differing by ~50k it's not like they're vying for a lot of market share.
• jcrben 9y ago
  People should install stuff like their db with docker or vagrant anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the homebrew package.
  • cat199 9y ago
    People should install stuff like their db with homebrew anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the docker or vagrant package.
    • jcrben 9y ago
      If you use vagrant or docker, the idea is to match the deployment server, which is probably Linux. So you'll be installing (using the OS package manager - something like apt or nix) whichever version is installed for your server OS.
  • snowwolf 9y ago
    I actually do this, but annoyingly for quite a few (postgres/redis), the client tools are not separate packages so you still need to install the full db locally to use them.
• vacri 9y ago
  Maintaining projects with MySQL in them is still a thing, yes.
• bdcravens 9y ago
  There are of course applications like Wordpress where it's a default