Top DBMS on Linux
I was looking up George Crump’s blogs in connection with his recent post on SSDs, and I stumbled upon one that outlines at great length what features Linux backup systems should have. I won’t claim to have read it word for word, but what did catch my eye were a couple of comments on DBMS market share, which boiled down to:
- Oracle
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
The specific quotes are:
while Oracle on Linux is significant and growing, the MySQL install base seems to be growing faster. And, while in the past the size of the MySQL data set was not nearly as large as the Oracle data set, it seems to be catching up there as well. A little farther behind is PostgreSQL, but it still has a significant install base and it too seems to be growing.
and
Despite the increased growth of the Linux install base, and especially the growth of MySQL and PostgreSQL in that environment, we have not seen many specific tools to protect these increasingly critical applications.
One one level that’s unsurprising. After all, which database management systems would you expect to see atop the Linux leaderboard except Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DB2? And as I’ve noted before, half the time database market share anecdotal evidence is discussed, DB2 is invisible (the other half of the time it shows up roughly in line with its reported numbers). Even so, perhaps due to the fact that PostgreSQL doesn’t get mentioned much as a target for third-party applications, it’s easy to forget that the product is actually a pretty major player in business use … somewhere or other. 🙂
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