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A comment on Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and... by selcuka on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:40PM (#38122698)
> Statista has it as dominant [1] as well as 2 other sources

I'm pretty sure that's the Wordpress effect. How many Wordpress users would buy a database engine that is 99% compatible with MySQL, because it supports branching?

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Re:Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and... by Hydrocharged on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:21AM (#38124492)
The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products.

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

In fact, we've got a blog post about Dolt and Wordpress.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/

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Re:Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and... by selcuka on Friday November 03, 2023 @01:36AM (#38124939)
> The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products.

Sure, but my question was about the feasibility of selling support to Wordpress users vs PostgreSQL users. The latter usually care more about advanced features such as the ones Dolt offers.

Don't get me wrong; I think Dolt is a great product. I was simply replying to the 2023 stats posted by k1ns.

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