MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?

Disoculated writes "Is MySQL a threat to bigwigs? is the question asked in CNN's technology section. The article notes that MySQL is running perhaps 20% of the web databases but its revenue is merely 0.02%... yet the company is still making money and putting out an excellent product. Is this a sign that the database market is in for a drastic change? Of course, there's no mention of PostgreSQL or mSQL, but I guess that's typical."

Comments

PostgreSQL has every feature but Replication.

[Martin Marvinski]

PostgreSQL should be the number one open source database because it supports SQL92 standards like transactions. I can see PostgreSQL being number one in the enterprise once Bruce and the guys at PostgreSQL.org implement Replication.(Replication for postgresql is available for the commercial version).

just my 2 cents.

Re:Version 4 Will Tell

[IWannaBeAnAC]

What would be the point of integrating a DB into the 'OS' (I assume you actually mean 'kernel') ?

What would that achieve that existing user-space solutions do not?

Re:Redundancy

[bstadil]

One feature which I think would help it greatly in the corporate world is 'automatic' redundancy.

Since slashdot uses MySQL would this feature if implemented catch dupes?

;-)

Re:Other open-source dbms

[DeBaas]

At Fosdem someone asked the PostgreSQL guy: 'why should I choose PostgreSQL' over Firebird. (The person who gave the Firebird presentation was in the room). His answer was basically that Firebird is actualy more full-featured, but that the advantage of PostgreSQL is that so many very talented developers are working on PostgreSQL making it better and better.

What I should have asked is, 'then why don't all the developers start working on Firebird in stead of PostgreSQL, since it is already better?'

But you're right, Firebird is even more forgotten as an option than PostgreSQL. And if even the Postgres people say it's better ....