How Oracle’s Grip Is Killing MySQL and Why the ‘Toy’ SQLite Is Rising
Oracle’s 2026 layoffs hit the MySQL team, community contributions fell 44% since 2017, while PostgreSQL climbs, and SQLite—once dismissed as a toy—now powers billions of devices and edge‑computing platforms, boosted by projects like LibSQL, Turso, Cloudflare D1 and Litestream, offering latency advantages over traditional servers.
