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Long Live MySQL: Good Old MySQL Should Be Rejuvenated

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2022-05-12 23:00:07

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This post is the first part in our series. You can see the second part here: Long Live MySQL: Kudos to the Ecosystem Innovators.

Imagine you’re an application developer, and your manager tells you to prototype a new application in a week. What would you choose for your database? Probably MySQL.

Many engineers love MySQL. DB-Engines reports MySQL is the second most popular database; however, some other databases, such as SQLite and IBM Db2, are decreasing in popularity.

MySQL is also popular when it comes to hiring. I searched for jobs on Indeed with the keywords of top used databases, and there were 31,245 jobs returned for “mysql.” Job openings that require a “mysql” skillset are the second highest among the top databases.

MySQL is ubiquitous. In fact, at PingCAP, MySQL was one of the few databases a lot of our engineers knew how to use before they joined PingCAP. I was one of them.