{"id":9553,"date":"2013-11-25T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/25\/mysql-needs-retain-open-source-roots-keep-developer-base-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T00:26:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:26:05","slug":"mysql-needs-to-retain-open-source-roots-to-keep-developer-base-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/mysql-needs-to-retain-open-source-roots-to-keep-developer-base-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL needs to retain open source roots to keep developer base, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine in 10 respondents claim the primary reason their company uses the MySQL database is because of its open source nature, according to a survey from SkySQL.<\/p>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s bad news attached to that statement: a whopping 94% admitted they would move to MariaDB if MySQL lots its open source power.<\/p>\n<p>The survey opened up some interesting thoughts on the development of MySQL, which has only been on the market since 1995. More than half (57%) of respondents have used MySQL for between three and 10 years, with over a quarter (28%) using MySQL for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>This gives an indication of the longevity of the system, and the loyalty of companies using it &ndash; but the tide may be turning.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most worrying statistic was that four in five (79%) organisations only use internal resources to support MySQL. 9% used Oracle, with 8% opting for survey creators &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine in 10 respondents claim the primary reason their company uses the MySQL database is because of its open source nature, according to a survey from SkySQL.<br \/>\nAnd there&rsquo;s bad news attached to that statement: a whopping 94% admitted they would mov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}