Re: Please take part in the PostgreSQL ecosystem survey

From: Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Advocacy Group (pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org)" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Please take part in the PostgreSQL ecosystem survey
Date: 2016-04-19 15:42:55
Message-ID: 571651FF.70500@agliodbs.com
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On 04/18/2016 07:19 PM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
>> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Difference is, PostgreSQL adoption is growing whereas MySQL is not.
>
> That's good news. On the other hand, the problem/question is whether MySQL users will become inclined to migrate to aother database. I'm a bit pessimistic about it because those who like MySQL now will like MySQL/MariaDB in the future...

Migration is a zero-sum game. I'm more interested in new users who
haven't already chosen a database.

>> MariaDB could change that, though; they're picking up a lot of interest.
>
> And Amazon Aurora?

So far, that's mostly replacing MySQL RDS.

>
> BTW, AWS might develop something like Aurora based on PostgreSQL as a manager at AWS posted to pgsql-jobs a few days ago.

We'll see. The implementation of Aurora is based on MySQL's tabletype
system, so they'd need something completely different for Postgres.

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Josh Berkus
Red Hat OSAS
(any opinions are my own)

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