PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 2. Januar 2018
Tags: DBMS of the year, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 341 monitored systems.
We thus declare PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2017.

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
von Matthias Gelbmann, 3. Juli 2017
Tags: Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch saw a steady growth of popularity in the last years. It is now not only the most popular enterprise search engine, it is also one of the 10 most popular database management systems.

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
von Paul Andlinger, 2. März 2016
Tags: 4D, DB2, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Neo4j, Open source DBMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Realm, Redis

While the open-source DBMS show a very good performance in this months ranking, we monitor some popularity drops for the large commercial systems.

Elasticsearch replaced Solr as the most popular search engine
von Paul Andlinger, 12. Januar 2016
Tags: Elasticsearch, Search engines, Solr

Elasticsearch has passed Solr and took the lead of the search engines category.

Winners, losers and an attractive newcomer in Novembers DB-Engines ranking
von Paul Andlinger, 2. November 2015
Tags: Cassandra, DB2, Elasticsearch, IBM dashDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle

Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and MariaDB are the winners in the current ranking.

IBM's DB2 and IBM dashDB show converse performances.

MongoDB is the DBMS of the year, defending the title from last year
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 7. Januar 2015
Tags: DBMS of the year, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis

MongoDB is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 240 monitored systems.
We thus declare MongoDB as the DBMS of the year 2014.

Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
von Paul Andlinger, 2. Juli 2014
Tags: Database models, Elasticsearch, Endeca, Search engines, Solr, Splunk

Enterprise Search Engines are gaining popularity in the database market. Two systems, Solr and Elasticsearch are leading that very special category of DBMS tools.

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
von Paul Andlinger, 4. Februar 2013
Tags: Amazon CloudSearch, Compass, Elasticsearch, Search engines, Solr, Sphinx

Starting with the February data, we include search engines as new category in our DB-Engines ranking.