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Open source databases overtook closed source databases in popularity

• duskwuff 4y ago
  ... based on an opaque "popularity" metric [1] which reminds me of TIOBE (which is also nonsense). Some of the "databases" included in this ranking are pretty questionable, too. Notably, it includes a number of hosted database services and analytics platforms, like Splunk, Microsoft Azure SQL, and Algolia, which aren't really comparable to database server applications. There's also a couple of WTFs, like etcd and memcached, which are only databases by the most stretched of definitions. [1]: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition