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MySQL

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
MySQL's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
MySQL%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: mysql
02004006006 Jul20 Jul10 Aug24 Aug28 Sept19 Oct
mysql

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names MySQL. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 2
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 0
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 1
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 0
  8. 28 Sept 1
  9. 5 Oct 4
  10. 12 Oct 0
  11. 19 Oct 1
  12. 26 Oct 1

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled339 pts · 251 comments · 8 Aug
  2. A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here62 pts · 32 comments · 5 Oct
  3. A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe51 pts · 19 comments · 29 Aug
  4. MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it27 pts · 9 comments · 25 Aug
  5. Show HN: RDST – A local agent that watches Postgres/MySQL for query regressions6 pts · 2 comments · 15 Oct
  6. PostgreSQL Migrator 1.0: Moving Fast from Oracle and MySQL to PostgreSQL4 pts · 0 comments · 15 Sept
  7. Show HN: Model – A Minimal Python ORM for MySQL and SQLite4 pts · 0 comments · 3 Sept
  8. Show HN: Schema – Visual Git Diffs for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite Schemas3 pts · 0 comments · 7 Oct

Bets on MySQL

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