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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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171 points vercantez | 5 comments | 08 Jul 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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Aachen ◴[10 Jul 25 15:54 UTC] No.44522398[source]▶
Is MariaDB included in MySQL? I see no mention of it in the post, but MySQL trending downwards would make sense as people upgrade and switch over. Besides of course novelty wearing off as posited for all engines further down the post
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1. tonymet ◴[10 Jul 25 18:19 UTC] No.44523955[source]▶
is anyone seriously using it? even their own brand facepile is pretty weak
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2. evanelias ◴[10 Jul 25 18:56 UTC] No.44524280[source]▶
MariaDB is widely used, including by some extremely high-traffic sites like Wikipedia [1], as well as some quite large multinational businesses [2].

It may not be as widespread as MySQL, but that's no surprise; despite HN's disdain, MySQL is still one of the most widely-used open source databases in existence.

[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MariaDB

[2] https://mariadb.com/resources/customer-stories/

3. Aachen ◴[10 Jul 25 20:50 UTC] No.44525455[source]▶
Their what now?
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4. tonymet ◴[11 Jul 25 17:10 UTC] No.44534641[source]▶
Customer portfolio
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5. Aachen ◴[11 Jul 25 22:42 UTC] No.44537523{3}[source]▶
Oh, huh I don't think I ever in my life considered what one's brand portfolio is when selecting which technology stack is good. But that explains why so many websites have big brand names on their homepage like "oracle and uber use us!" if some people actually care about that