Re: [sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
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

Re: [sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread R Smith
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

Re: [sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread Simon Slavin
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

Re: [sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread Donald Shepherd
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:

Re: [sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
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

[sqlite] marketing - The world's most popular open source database

2017-07-18 Thread Darren Duncan
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