Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2021
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 3. Januar 2022
Tags: DBMS of the year, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake

Snowflake is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 383 monitored systems.
We thus declare Snowflake as the DBMS of the Year 2021.

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2020
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 4. Januar 2021
Tags: DBMS of the year, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, MongoDB, 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 360 monitored systems.
We thus declare PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2020.

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2018
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 2. Januar 2019
Tags: DBMS of the year, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis

PostgreSQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 343 monitored systems.
We thus declare PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2018.

PostgreSQL moves up one rank at the expense of MongoDB
von Paul Andlinger, 1. September 2016
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL passed MongoDB and ranks 4th, only behind the big three DBMS Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server.

Oracle is the DBMS of the Year
von Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 5. Januar 2016
Tags: Cassandra, DBMS of the year, MongoDB, Oracle

Oracle is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 290 monitored systems.
We thus declare Oracle as the DBMS of the Year 2015.

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 and PostgreSQL struggle for the lead of the chasing group in the popularity ranking
von Paul Andlinger, 1. Juli 2015
Tags: Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

MongoDB regained the 4th rank from PostgreSQL this month and is one of the three systems within the top 10 which could improve their score.

DB-Engines Ranking now covers 256 database management systems
von Matthias Gelbmann, 2. Februar 2015
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

We have added another 16 systems to our ranking, rounding it up to 256.

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.

MongoDB is the DBMS of the year
von Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 7. Januar 2014
Tags: Cassandra, DBMS of the year, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

MongoDB is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any other system.
We thus declare MongoDB as the DBMS of the year 2013.

MongoDB climbs to rank 6 in the DB-Engines Ranking, overtaking Microsoft Access
von Matthias Gelbmann, 2. August 2013
Tags: DB2, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

MongoDB, the most popular NoSQL database in our ranking, continues to increase its score and rank.

MS Access drops in DB-Engines Ranking
von Paul Andlinger, 2. Mai 2013
Tags: DB2, Microsoft Access, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

In the new edition of the DB-Engines Ranking MS Access loses a rank to DB2 and falls back to rank #6.

Microsoft SQL Server regained rank 2 in the DB-Engines popularity ranking
von Matthias Gelbmann, 3. Dezember 2012
Tags: DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

After it slipped last month to rank 3 behind MySQL, SQL Server is back to position 2 in our December ranking with a very small difference in the scores.

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
von Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 3. Oktober 2012
Tags: Cassandra, DB-Engines Ranking, DB2, Memcached, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle

Oracle is the most popular DBMS, MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL system.