Market Share

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. With over 65,000 downloads per day, MySQL continues to be the choice for a broad range of database developers, DBAs and IT managers who want a high performance database that is reliable, affordable, and easy to use.

• Forrester Research According to a July 2008 Market Update on Open Source Databases, Forrester reported, "MySQL has the highest adoption and growth. MySQL continues to have the largest mindshare in the open source database market and has the highest number of paying customers for product support: an estimated 16,000."
• Gartner Group Database Installations and Deployment Plans - 2008
  
  
  Gartner Study Shows Strong Growth in the DBMS Market - 2008
• Evans Data Corporation MySQL has gained 25% market share in overall database usage by developers in the past two years, according to data drawn from a range of recent multi-client surveys published by Evans Data Corporation, a vendor-neutral third-party market research firm. The data shows 40% database usage by developers, up from 32% two years earlier. Evans Data Corp. noted that with more and more developers using Open Source (65% in North America in Fall 2006), usage of MySQL is projected to continue to increase in the future. (April 2007)
  
  Other findings from Evans Data Corporation:
  • Broad acceptance of MySQL can be attributed to the rapid overall adoption of the LAMP stack
  • Among developers in enterprise organizations, four out of ten report that they use an open source database within their operations
  • More than two thirds of Open Source developers (69%) are very satisfied with the Open Source database options on the market today
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