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Hey thanks for reading, I'm the author of the piece. The original went through a couple rounds of edits since it's on the company page but PM if you want the original :)


Care to correct the inaccuracies? At least eg "the most popular open-source database in the world"


How would this be disputed?


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.


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


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. ;)


Well according to DB Engines Ranking anyway




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