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by redwood 3213 days ago
How would this be disputed?
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justinclift 3213 days ago
SQLite (and likely BDB among others) are far more popular and widespread than MySQL installations.

Literally every single Mac, iDevice, Windows 10 PC, Android phone/tablet includes SQLite. That's just for starters.

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redwood 3213 days ago
Oh I see. Popular as in number of software installs, rather than development effort, amount of data under management, amount of developer mindshare building and maintaining apps against it, that kind of thing. Fair but generally SQLite and MySQL are not considered the same class of engine so the wording could have been slightly more clear "most popular open source database server" or similar
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justinclift 3212 days ago
Agreed. It should definitely be clarified to at least "database server".

The other potential metrics you mention as well, not really sure MySQL would come out front on (m)any of them either. ;)

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redwood 3211 days ago
Well according to DB Engines Ranking anyway
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