Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:55:22AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> With no disrespect to PostgreSQL, MySQL has 100x our downloads and
> installations...

Just for the hell of it I looked at the popcon stats for debian
installs (see below). It tells me the following:

- Something like half the people who install mysql-server (any version)
never use it. People who install PostgreSQL are (slightly) more likely
to actually use it.

- For mysql, users of the client are approximatly twice the amount that
use the server. For postgres, the client and server count is about the
same. This one is curious, don't know what to make of it.

- when it comes to client libs, a lot of people have them installed
(presumably linked to various apps) but they don't apparently connect
anywhere with them.

Now, this is not exactly a represenative sample and statistical errors
abound, and we're not counting Windows installations but 100x seems
like an exaggeration to me... :)

Have a nice day,

#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
#      regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
#           information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files (maintainer)
183   libmysqlclient12                4483  3026   663   421   373 (Christian Hammers)
266   mysql-client                    2803  2188   216   172   227 (Christian Hammers)
453   libpq3                          3710  1266  1065   231  1148 (Martin Pitt)
478   mysql-server                    2342  1171   529   490   152 (Christian Hammers)
553   libmysqlclient14                2437   954   145   332  1006 (Christian Hammers)
583   mysql-client-4.1                1111   886    21   204     0 (Christian Hammers)
661   postgresql-client               1709   729   372    31   577 (Martin Pitt)
662   postgresql                      1286   728   132    14   412 (Martin Pitt)
883   mysql-server-4.1                 883   490    84   309     0 (Christian Hammers)
1202  postgresql-7.4                   468   308    37   123     0 (Martin Pitt)
1531  libmysqlclient10                3277   214   518    48  2497 (Steve Langasek)
2253  postgresql-client-8.0            185   110    16    59     0 (Martin Pitt)
2261  postgresql-8.0                   172   109    17    46     0 (Martin Pitt)
2332  mysql-client-5.0                 120   102     1    17     0 (Christian Hammers)
2757  mysql-server-5.0                 113    77     3    33     0 (Christian Hammers)

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