text: Top 3 Open Source Databases: ActiveState Survey Results - ActiveState
  Survey responses showed an almost 50/50 split between Linux and Windows – interestingly, 100% of the Linux respondents had at least 1 MySQL database deployed in production.
  Of course, we also asked a "cloud" question – to see if any of those surveyed had deployed a production database to the cloud and a resounding 93% said "No".
  The most interesting results was the Size question – the majority of the production databases were under 50 GB, with one lone HP-UX respondent having two production databases in the 500GB to 1TB Range (one MySQL and one PostgreSQL). Begging the question: Where are all the terabytes of data being stored these days if not in OS databases? Is MySQL the database of choice for those with smaller databases requirements – and are the proprietary databases like Oracle where the really big data storage challenges are being met? – We'll have to do another survey and dig deeper next month!
  ActivePython now provides five key Python database modules; mysql-python, psycopg2, cx_Oracle, pyodbc, and pymssql. With the addition of these modules, ActivePython now supports the world's most popular proprietary and open source databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
  Regardless of where you want to store your data, in an open source or proprietary database; behind the corporate firewall or on the Cloud – ActiveState's ActivePython has the databases connectors you need to get the job done.
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