Many people on MacOS use Postgres.app for their PostgreSQL needs.

http://postgresapp.com

And and I'm sure many people use the mysql.com installer for MySQL https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Postico[1] too. It's really wonderful.

[1]https://eggerapps.at/postico/

With both numbering in the 6 figures and differing by ~50k it's not like they're vying for a lot of market share.

People should install stuff like their db with docker or vagrant anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the homebrew package.

I actually do this, but annoyingly for quite a few (postgres/redis), the client tools are not separate packages so you still need to install the full db locally to use them.

People should install stuff like their db with homebrew anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the docker or vagrant package.

If you use vagrant or docker, the idea is to match the deployment server, which is probably Linux. So you'll be installing (using the OS package manager - something like apt or nix) whichever version is installed for your server OS.

MongoDB on the podium too...

Interesting to see MariaDB in the middle of that list though...

There are of course applications like Wordpress where it's a default

Maintaining projects with MySQL in them is still a thing, yes.

I have read an article which claims LAMP stack has made MySQL preferred to Postgres.