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by strogonoff 736 days ago
A lot of world’s important data is on paper.

As far as important data served from a relational database is concerned, MySQL most likely beats the hell out of everything in terms of popularity. The bulk of SQLite’s usage has to be various runtime caches, file data, and so on.
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TZubiri 736 days ago
Postgresql superseded mysql ever since the maria fork/oracle acquisition.
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strogonoff 736 days ago
The topic is not quality but popularity.
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TZubiri 736 days ago
Yes. In terms of popularity (installs/time) psql superseded mysql. Although of course at the tipover point msql still may have beaten psql in terms of total installations, i'm pretty sure even by that metric psql already won.
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strogonoff 736 days ago
Source? I’ve only been using PostgreSQL, but I believe most legaxy systems are not going to rush to update, and world consists of legacy systems and systems that will become legacy tomorrow.
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TZubiri 736 days ago
I'm the source

we have been living in a psql era for longer than mysql, so it has had enough time to catchup.

If you feel otherwise it's probably that memory bias effect where distant events seem closer and we underestimate the passage of time,

There's an xkcd for that

https://xkcd.com/891/

"The death of mysql(2010) is closer to its birth(1995) than to the present (2025)" will become a true statement next year.

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ffsm8 736 days ago
So it's essentially your gut feeling?

It's obviously going to be hard to determine a number for a statistic like "most popular", and there are always very different interpretations of the available numbers, ending up with vastly different rankings.

I.e. this one keeps Oracle DB at place 1, mysql at second: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

It links to their method at the top of the statistics. (Oracle has basically a DB monopoly if you believe that ranking, as these are both owned by them)

It's dataset is probably flawed, but I think we can say

"Rumors of mysqls death have been greatly exaggerated"

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strogonoff 736 days ago
There are stats that claim MySQL is used more, but I did not link to them because I don’t know if they are trustworthy. You, meanwhile, just made a fact out of thin air.
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