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Among one-off toy projects shared on HN, probably. In the industry, MySQL is still the dominant system in my experience. Just to check though, Statista has it a

by k1ns 3y ago

Among one-off toy projects shared on HN, probably. In the industry, MySQL is still the dominant system in my experience. Just to check though, Statista has it as dominant [1] as well as 2 other sources that appear to be geared towards sales & marketing research [2] [3]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/809750/worldwide-popularity-ranking-database-management-systems/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/809750/worldwide-popular... [2] https://6sense.com/tech/relational-databases/mysql-market-share https://6sense.com/tech/relational-databases/mysql-market-sh... [3] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/databases--272 https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/databases--272

wongarsu 3y ago
MySQL is still dominant in the PHP world, and even if HN will laugh at you for using PHP it's still really popular
selcuka 3y ago
> Statista has it as dominant [1] as well as 2 other sources I'm pretty sure that's the Wordpress effect. How many Wordpress users would buy a database engine that is 99% compatible with MySQL, because it supports branching?
- Hydrocharged 3y ago
  The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt https://github.com/dolthub/dolt In fact, we've got a blog post about Dolt and Wordpress. https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/ https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/
  - selcuka 3y ago
    > The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products. Sure, but my question was about the feasibility of selling support to Wordpress users vs PostgreSQL users. The latter usually care more about advanced features such as the ones Dolt offers. Don't get me wrong; I think Dolt is a great product. I was simply replying to the 2023 stats posted by k1ns.

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Among one-off toy projects shared on HN, probably. In the industry, MySQL is still the dominant system in my experience. Just to check though, Statista has it a

by k1ns 3y ago

wongarsu 3y ago
MySQL is still dominant in the PHP world, and even if HN will laugh at you for using PHP it's still really popular
selcuka 3y ago
> Statista has it as dominant [1] as well as 2 other sources I'm pretty sure that's the Wordpress effect. How many Wordpress users would buy a database engine that is 99% compatible with MySQL, because it supports branching?
- Hydrocharged 3y ago
  The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt https://github.com/dolthub/dolt In fact, we've got a blog post about Dolt and Wordpress. https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/ https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/
  - selcuka 3y ago
    > The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products. Sure, but my question was about the feasibility of selling support to Wordpress users vs PostgreSQL users. The latter usually care more about advanced features such as the ones Dolt offers. Don't get me wrong; I think Dolt is a great product. I was simply replying to the 2023 stats posted by k1ns.