The latest Google search Trends (picture below) shows WordPress ahead of Blogger. Typepad and Movable Type are far behind and in decline. Sometime around mid-February WordPress has beaten blogger in terms of search volume in Google. The rapidly rising graph of WordPress is in sharp contrast with nearly flat graph of Blogger since 2005. WordPress is way ahead of other popular blogging software in terms of new volume.

HSQLD is a mature, high-performant database written in Java. It is used in several high profile popular commercial and open source products like Open Office 2.0 (Office productivity suite; competitor of MS Office), JBoss (Application Server), JFox (Application Server), Jonas (Application Server), Mathemetica, Hibernate (ORM), Jira (Defect Tracking), TrackStudio (Defect Tracking), C-JDBC (Database Clustering) etc. It is a lightweight, embeddable database which eliminates the challenge of separate installation and configuration for the database component as with other databases like Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL.