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."Read more »
• Gartner Group Database Deployment Plans — 2006
  Source: 'Enterprise Databases in an Open-Source World', September 2006
• 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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• JoinVision Study According to the July 2006 JoinVision study "Open Source in the Fast Lane", IT specialists indicated they deploy MySQL 30% more frequently than Oracle, SQL Server or DB2.
  
  Furthermore, this study concludes that open source is a key component of today's IT infrastructure, and that the market share of open source technology is increasing.
  
  IT experts today most often use MySQL
  
  Source: JoinVision E-Services GmbH, July 2006
• SD Times Readers Poll In an article "Relational Databases Rule the Roost" published in SD Times in July 2004, MySQL was identified as the number 3 "Top Deployed Database" in a survey of 934 readers. MySQL was more broadly deployed than DB2, Informix, Postgres or Sybase. Respondents cited familiarity with the database, reputation of the database vendor and lowest development costs as the top 3 factors that led to their database choice.
  
  MySQL is the #3 database among those polled
  
• Evans Data Corp. Research The Evans Data Database Development Survey series examines the usage patterns and attitudes of database developers. The twice-a-year survey includes sections on platform use and migration, Linux and open source software, databases being used, connectivity and architectures, business intelligence and OLAP, Web services, security concerns, mobile database development, Internet, tool use and requirements, language usage and more.
  
  In October 2005, leading research firm Evans Data Corporation found that MySQL was the #2 most-used database server according to survey respondents:
  
  Which of the following server database products do you work with?
  
  (Note that this multiple-response question allowed the developers to select as many database as they wished, and thus the total does not come to 100%.)
  
  Because of its popularity, MySQL has the support of leading IT organizations including major hardware and software vendors such as: AMD, Apple, BMC, Business Objects, Dell, Embarcadero, EMC, Intel, Novell, Quest Software, Red Hat, SAP, Sun, Veritas and others.Read more »