On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, R Smith wrote:
I wouldn't dispute MySQL's claim as most popular, neither SQLite's claim as
most widely deployed - both seem quite accurate, or at a minimum, plausible.
Sqlite likely has the longest anticipated future support out of
available databases. The anticipated su
I was drafting a "don't confuse `popular` [a collective human bias] with
`most-used` or `most widely deployed` [value statements]" response, but
I see others have already done so...
I would like to add that often if I mention "SQLite" in conversation
with random people (even technical sometime
On 18 Jul 2017, at 8:37am, Donald Shepherd wrote:
> I think that there's no real definition for "popular" leaves it as a
> massively ambiguous claim.
Agreed. In addition to this, in which court would the claim be judged and why
? There’s no such thing as a world court. Is someone going to
I think that there's no real definition for "popular" leaves it as a
massively ambiguous claim.
They could easily produce a survey of users of MySQL (sample selection
bias) that "prove" it has higher customer ratings - that'd work for
"popular".
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 17:17 Darren Duncan wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote:
> I was reminded today that MySQL still prominently advertises themselves
> as "The world's most popular open source database", on their website
> and in their product announcements etc.
>
> However, isn't that claim clearly wrong, given that SQLite for one has
> way more insta
I was reminded today that MySQL still prominently advertises themselves as "The
world's most popular open source database", on their website and in their
product announcements etc.
However, isn't that claim clearly wrong, given that SQLite for one has way more
installations than MySQL does, an
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