Thread: Trends....
Hey guys, The most difficult question I get when I'm on a PostgreSQL booth is "What is PostgreSQL's market share ?". I often espond with questions : "How do you measure that ?", "What does "market share" even mean for an Open Source project ?", etc. etc. These are interesting discussions but that's not what people want to hear. They want numbers and so far we don't have that many statistics to provide: There's the DB Engines Ranking, which has already been discussed here a lot : http://db-engines.com/en/ranking There's also the Google Search Trends : https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Postgres%2BPostgreSQL%2Bpgsql,%2Fm%2F01vw9z,%2Fm%2F04y3k,SQL%20Server&hl=fr&sni=1 Both of them evaluate the state of the competition "as of today" but it's also interesting to look at the problem in term of progression and growth. Yesterday I found a nice stats here : https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread-part-3/#storage This is a stat based on the jobs offers published on the monthly "Who is Hiring" threads of Hacker News. These jobs are mainly offered by startups in USA so that's only a subset of the entire IT Industry. But that's probably the most dynamic and leading subpart. In French we say "avant-garde" :) Anyway this trend is not suprising in itself but it's a nice illustration of the difference between "current position" and "velocity". Instead of answering where PostgreSQL is right now it's more interesting to answer with where PostgreSQL will be in the near future. -- -- Damien Clochard
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Damien Clochard > The most difficult question I get when I'm on a PostgreSQL booth is "What > is PostgreSQL's market share ?". I often espond with questions : > "How do you measure that ?", "What does "market share" even mean for an > Open Source project ?", etc. etc. > > These are interesting discussions but that's not what people want to hear. > They want numbers and so far we don't have that many statistics to > provide: This may not be the very answer, but might be interesting: Open source threatens to eat the database market http://www.infoworld.com/article/2916057/open-source-software/open-source-threatens-to-eat-the-database-market.html PostgreSQL Powers All New Apps for 77% of the Database's Users http://www.realwire.com/releases/PostgreSQL-Powers-All-New-Apps-for-77-of-the-Databases-Usersp Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa
On 25 Aug 2016, at 03:02, Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: >> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org >> [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Damien Clochard >> The most difficult question I get when I'm on a PostgreSQL booth is "What >> is PostgreSQL's market share ?". I often espond with questions : >> "How do you measure that ?", "What does "market share" even mean for an >> Open Source project ?", etc. etc. >> >> These are interesting discussions but that's not what people want to hear. >> They want numbers and so far we don't have that many statistics to >> provide: > > This may not be the very answer, but might be interesting: > > Open source threatens to eat the database market > http://www.infoworld.com/article/2916057/open-source-software/open-source-threatens-to-eat-the-database-market.html > > PostgreSQL Powers All New Apps for 77% of the Database's Users > http://www.realwire.com/releases/PostgreSQL-Powers-All-New-Apps-for-77-of-the-Databases-Usersp Oops, broken link. That one should be: http://www.realwire.com/releases/PostgreSQL-Powers-All-New-Apps-for-77-of-the-Databases-Users :) + Justin -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi