MySQL Usage Is Up
SD Times reports : “…Evans Data today released statistics that showed MySQL usage growing among developers over the past two years. The results of this two-year survey showed that 40 percent of American developers are using databases in their work, and among those, 25 percent more are using MySQL than were two years ago. A year ago, only 32 percent of developers were using databases in their work, according to the study.”
Amazing how far you can get with a free database….. I still prefer SQL Server, but all the RoR examples I see deal with MySQL, so I had to get a little bit familiar with it.
Thus far the most innovative usage of it that I have seen was the in-memory option of MySQL (which is wicket fast) being used as a fancy caching layer for an Informix based system. Since there are only about two Infomrix dba’s left in this country, I think thats a good approach.
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