The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a
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Overall, Microsoft's products continue to dominate the database development market. But open-source software's price and its ability to integrate with other software mesh well with the priorities of application developers, said Evans Data analyst Joe McKendrick. Programmers often select a single database for both application development and deployment.
"Concerns over stability, expense and how well a database plays with others are leading a quickly growing number of...companies to seriously consider and implement an open source database solution," McKendrick said in a statement. "We expect this trend to continue as the open source offerings are continually improved upon."
Database buying patterns have shifted significantly in the past few years, with a sharp focus on cost-effectiveness. Database companies, which once touted speed and the ability to handle very demanding processing tasks, have boosted efforts to make databases more reliable and cheaper to operate.
The Evans Data study found that interest in low cost spilled over to the choice of operating system as well, with 62 percent of database developers expecting some cost savings by using Linux.
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Another finding from the survey reflects the growing interest in using company data to improve business performance. Queries around business performance analysis were the top database analysis performed last year, growing 20 percent over 2002, according to Evans Data.
