MySQL Prediction
January 23, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
Even as ubiquitious as it is, and as much as I love/use MySQL, I believe its best days are behind it. It has always struggled to maintain a foothold in the enterprise and with people rethinking relational data these days it could very well be on its way out. I don’t think we’ll see this any time soon. Sun’s purchase of MySQL is interesting. They are clearly an enterprise solutions provider and will, no doubt, push MySQL further in that direction. It cannot continue to thrive in the small user space because, as the web gets more and more agile from the developer’s perspective, users are looking for more concise and reduced means of storing their data.
Update: I wrote this nearly two years ago, and I feel this is even more relevant with the recent acquision by Oracle. It is still anyone’s guess what Oracle will do with MySQL. I wouldn’t put too much money behind Oracle bolstering the MySQL codebase with new features and innovations.