Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker
INTERVIEW Oracle inadvertently helped turn PostgreSQL into the database technology now backed by Microsoft, AWS, and Google, according to Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker.
Speaking to The Register earlier this month, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Stonebraker said Oracle's decision to retain MySQL after buying Sun Microsystems helped propel PostgreSQL toward dominance, at least among systems that use or support its wire protocol.
PostgreSQL was launched 30 years ago this summer, adding SQL support to Stonebraker's earlier Postgres system, first proposed in 1986.
After slowly gaining popularity, PostgreSQL has seen its usage explode in the last five years. It became the most popular choice of database among developers in 2023, according to the Stack Overflow survey. Beyond the popular DBMS itself, vendors including the cloud hyperscalers, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB offer database services with varying...
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