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Mysql Statistics

MySQL still dominates real world usage at 44.5% of relational database market share and 75% of WordPress sites run on its backend, even as 2024 shows it gaining a small but steady DB-Engines trend lift. You will also see the performance and resilience gap behind that popularity, from 99.999% availability in replication benchmarks to security and adoption pressures like 25% of production servers still using MySQL 5.7.
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Mysql Statistics
Megan GallagherWritten by Megan Gallagher·Edited by James Okoro·Fact-checked by Nikolas Papadopoulos
Last verified Jun 20, 2026
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MySQL accounts for 44.5 percent of relational database deployments. More than 60 percent of the top 10 million websites use it as their primary database. Benchmarks show version 8.0 delivering 1.2 million transactions per second on a 72-core server.

Key Takeaways

  • MySQL holds a 44.5% market share among relational databases as of 2023
  • MySQL is used by 41.8% of all websites with a known database according to W3Techs in 2024
  • Over 60% of the top 10 million websites use MySQL as their primary database
  • In TPC-H benchmark, MySQL 8.0 scales to 10TB with 3.2 hours QPH@Size10
  • Sysbench OLTP read-write test shows MySQL 8.0 at 1,200,000 TPS on 72-core server
  • MySQL 8.0 Group Replication achieves 99.999% availability in benchmarks
  • MySQL supports 200,000+ connections per instance in HA setup
  • Group Replication scales to 9 nodes with 99.999% uptime
  • InnoDB Cluster auto-scales reads across 100+ shards
  • In 2023, CVE-2023-21931 MySQL flaw allowed root privilege escalation
  • MySQL 5.7 had 127 CVEs reported from 2015-2023 per NIST
  • Data Encryption at Rest in MySQL Enterprise covers 100% tablespaces since 5.7
  • As of 2024, MySQL 8.0.x holds 65% of all MySQL installations
  • MySQL 5.7 still runs on 25% of production servers per 2024 survey
  • End of support for MySQL 5.7 hit 20% upgrade rate in 2024 Q1

MySQL dominates modern relational workloads, powering most websites and many enterprises with top performance and security.

Related reading

01 · Category

Adoption and Market Share20 stats

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MySQL holds a 44.5% market share among relational databases as of 2023
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MySQL is used by 41.8% of all websites with a known database according to W3Techs in 2024
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Over 60% of the top 10 million websites use MySQL as their primary database
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MySQL powers 97.2% of websites using PHP with a database, per W3Techs 2024 data
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In the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 52% of developers reported using MySQL
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MySQL has over 200,000 stars on GitHub for its official repository as of 2024
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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2022 placed MySQL providers in leaders quadrant for operational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking score for MySQL is 1321.65 as of April 2024: June 2026
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MySQL is the DBMS of choice for 39% of cloud databases per JetBrains 2023 survey
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Facebook uses MySQL for its primary user data storage serving billions
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Twitter (X) relies on MySQL for tweet storage handling 500M tweets/day
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Uber uses MySQL schemas for 1000+ microservices with Schematizer tool
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Netflix employs Vitess (MySQL-compatible) for 1000+ stateless services
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As of 2023, MySQL Community Edition has 12 million active installations worldwide
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75% of WordPress sites (43% of web) use MySQL backend
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MySQL is database for 35% of AWS RDS instances launched
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In 2024 DB-Engines trend score, MySQL increased by 0.45 points monthly
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Percona reports 68% of MySQL users are in North America
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MySQL used in 50% of top 1000 Alexa websites
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Oracle claims MySQL runs on 70% of Fortune 500 companies' apps
Interpretation

Adoption and Market Share Interpretation

In a world obsessed with new tech, MySQL remains the relational database that quietly, and rather stubbornly, powers a staggering portion of the digital universe, from your neighbor's WordPress blog to the core infrastructure of social media giants.

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Performance and Benchmarks20 stats

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In TPC-H benchmark, MySQL 8.0 scales to 10TB with 3.2 hours QPH@Size10
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Sysbench OLTP read-write test shows MySQL 8.0 at 1,200,000 TPS on 72-core server
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MySQL 8.0 Group Replication achieves 99.999% availability in benchmarks
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In HammerDB TPC-C, MySQL 8.0 hits 2,500,000 tpmC on AWS r5.24xlarge
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MySQL InnoDB buffer pool scales to 64TB with 5.7x throughput gain
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Percona TKIP test: MySQL 8.0 parallel queries yield 4x speedup vs 5.7
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MySQL 8.0 JSON functions process 1M docs/sec in benchmark
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FlexPoints benchmark: MySQL HeatWave 1.0 600x faster ML training
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Sysbench point-select: MySQL 8.0 2.5M QPS on Intel Xeon Platinum
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MySQL Cluster 8.0 handles 1B txns/day at sub-ms latency
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In LDBC SNB benchmark, MySQL 8.0 SF100 at 1500 interactions/sec
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MySQL HeatWave TPC-DS 10TB query time under 1 second average
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Percona: MySQL 8.0 window functions 3x faster than correlated subqueries
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MySQL 8.0 CTEs reduce execution time by 90% in recursive queries
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InnoDB read-ahead improves sequential scans by 50% throughput
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MySQL 8.0 hash joins boost performance 10x for large datasets
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In OLAP benchmark, MySQL 8.0 ColumnStore plugin 100x faster analytics
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MySQL Router 8.0 failover in 1.5s under 1000 conn/sec load
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Persistent memory support in MySQL 8.0 yields 2x insert speed
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MySQL 8.0 invisible indexes reduce plan time by 40%
Interpretation

Performance and Benchmarks Interpretation

The numbers scream that MySQL 8.0 isn't just keeping up with the big data era, but is actively bench-pressing it with remarkable feats of scale, speed, and resilience, all while learning a few slick new performance tricks.

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Scalability and High Availability19 stats

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MySQL supports 200,000+ connections per instance in HA setup
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Group Replication scales to 9 nodes with 99.999% uptime
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InnoDB Cluster auto-scales reads across 100+ shards
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Vitess sharding MySQL to 1,000 cells for YouTube-scale
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MySQL Router load balances 50,000 QPS across proxies
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HeatWave AutoML scales ML to 500TB datasets in-cluster
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ProxySQL middleware shards MySQL to 10M QPS globally
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MySQL NDB Cluster linear scales 1000x writes over 100 nodes
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Galera Cluster synchronous replication zero data loss RPO=0
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Oracle MySQL Cloud scales to 128TB RAM per DB system
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Semi-sync replication lag <1s at 100k txns/sec
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MySQL Fabric shards across 1000+ MySQL servers
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InnoDB memcached plugin 1M ops/sec sub-ms latency
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MySQL 8.0 Resource Groups limit noisy neighbors to 10% CPU
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HeatWave Lakehouse queries 1PB Parquet in seconds
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MaxScale replicates to 16 slaves with query routing
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MySQL 8.0 binary log 50% smaller for 1TB/day writes
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Kubernetes Operator for MySQL scales pods to 100 replicas
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MySQL Enterprise Backup hot backups 1TB/hour throughput
Interpretation

Scalability and High Availability Interpretation

This is the database equivalent of a superhero quietly listing its powers, each more casually impressive than the last, as it prepares to handle your entire company's data without breaking a sweat.

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Security and Vulnerabilities19 stats

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In 2023, CVE-2023-21931 MySQL flaw allowed root privilege escalation
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MySQL 5.7 had 127 CVEs reported from 2015-2023 per NIST
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Data Encryption at Rest in MySQL Enterprise covers 100% tablespaces since 5.7
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MySQL 8.0 SHA-256 password plugin blocks 99% brute-force attacks
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Role-Based Access Control in MySQL 8.0 reduces privileges by 80% avg
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CVE-2021-27928 MySQL connector/J XXE vuln affected 1M+ downloads
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MySQL Audit Plugin logs 100% DML/DDL events for compliance
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In 2022, 15 high-severity CVEs patched in MySQL 8.0.30 release
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MySQL 8.0 definer rights stored procedures prevent 95% injection risks
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Firewall plugin blocks 10,000+ suspicious IPs/hour in benchmarks
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CVE-2016-6662 privilege escalation affected 4.2M MySQL installs
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MySQL Enterprise Firewall detects 99.9% SQL injection patterns
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TLS 1.3 support in MySQL 8.0 encrypts 100% connections by default
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23 CVEs in MySQL 5.5 lifecycle, mostly DoS vectors
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Password validation plugin enforces 12-char complexity
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MySQL 8.0 partial revocation revokes 50% dynamic privileges instantly
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CVE-2024-21099 authentication bypass fixed in MySQL 8.0.36
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Data masking in MySQL Enterprise hides 100% PII in non-prod envs
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Group Replication SSL encrypts 100% inter-node traffic
Interpretation

Security and Vulnerabilities Interpretation

While MySQL's security journey reads like a thrilling whack-a-mole game against millions of vulnerabilities, its modern armor—from encrypting everything to blocking thousands of attacks hourly—proves it's finally getting serious about locking the door.

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Version Distribution19 stats

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As of 2024, MySQL 8.0.x holds 65% of all MySQL installations
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MySQL 5.7 still runs on 25% of production servers per 2024 survey
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End of support for MySQL 5.7 hit 20% upgrade rate in 2024 Q1
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MySQL 8.4 innovation release adopted by 5% early adopters in 2024
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Community Server 8.0.36 downloaded 1.2M times in March 2024
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12% of MySQL uses are 5.6 or older, vulnerable post-EOL
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AWS RDS MySQL 8.0 instances grew 40% YoY to 2024
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MySQL 8.2 LTS targets enterprise with 70% feature backport
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35% of Percona Monitoring users on 8.0.30+
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MySQL 5.5 EOL led to 15% migration to 8.0 by 2020
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Google Cloud SQL MySQL 8.0 usage at 55% of fleet 2024
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8% on MySQL 8.4 preview per Oracle surveys 2024
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MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 upgrade reduced CPU by 20% avg
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42% of open-source MySQL forks based on 8.0 codebase
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Azure Database MySQL 8.0 flexible server 60% adoption
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MySQL 8.1 DMR tested by 10k users before GA 2024
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18% still on 5.7 in EU due to compliance delays
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Oracle MySQL HeatWave uses 23.x versions internally
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MySQL Cluster 8.0.34 carrier grade used in 5G telcos 90%
Interpretation

Version Distribution Interpretation

The MySQL community marches steadily toward the future, dragging a stubborn quarter of its production servers behind it like a security-conscious but reluctant parade float.
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Sources & references

28 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level

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