"MySQL Open Source database market share leads," said the headline on ReadWriteHack. Is This True? In between?
It turns out that the data is derived from the cloud–the numbers reflect the choices made by 1000 + developers.
Now I have no doubt that these figures accurately reflect usage patterns at Jelastic. But here's why I do not think that the developers at a single cloud-based startup that represents all the open source database user:
* Developers are choosing cloud provider start-ups can't be accurate sample of the total users, and so as a group make choices that differ from the rest of the universe is open-source database users;
* Java developers may, as a group, tend to make a different choice of developers who are using other platforms;