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The author is right that usage is dropping, but that really has no bearing on whether or not it is open source. Technologies get replaced all the time regardless of the license they use.

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Author is also being careful with the DB-Engines screen shot, usage of MySQL may be dropping, but it's still number two (below Oracle, above MSSQL - which shows the same curve, above Postgres, far above MariaDB and SQLite) https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend

The rankings methodology looks like it will favour MySQL.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition

Lots of historical mentions. Even the MariaDB website mentions it. Lots of people say "MySQL" generically to include its forks.

You can see that in this comment thread too. People assuming MariaDB=MySQL (not according to op, arguable)

That site is not measuring usage. By usage SQLite would be way above all the others. There are more SQLite deployments in use than all the others combined.

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