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by k1ns 965 days 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-popular...

[2] https://6sense.com/tech/relational-databases/mysql-market-sh...

[3] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/databases--272
2 comments
wongarsu 965 days 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
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selcuka 964 days 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?

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Hydrocharged 964 days ago
The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products.

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/

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selcuka 964 days 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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