Driving the Future of PostgreSQL Adoption
von  Umair Shahid, Percona (sponsor) , 15. November 2021
Tags: Open source DBMS, Percona, PostgreSQL

The Inexorable Rise of PostgreSQL
von  Matt Yonkovit, Percona (sponsor) , 24. September 2021
Tags: Open source DBMS, Percona, PostgreSQL

Percona's Matt Yonkovit shares his view on why PostgreSQL is currently the hottest database in town, how liberal licensing has led to mass adoption, and why you should consider a switch to PostgreSQL.

Open source database management systems are now more popular than commercial offerings
von Matthias Gelbmann, 13. Januar 2021
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, Open source DBMS

If we add up all the popularity scores of the 185 open source DBMSs in the DB-Engines ranking, then we get, for the first time, a higher score than the commercial counterparts.

MariaDB strengthens its position in the open source RDBMS market
von Matthias Gelbmann, 5. April 2018
Tags: MariaDB, MySQL, Open source DBMS, Relational DBMS

MariaDB has reached a new all-time high in the DB-Engines Ranking, climbing to rank 14, up from rank 18 one year ago and from rank 25 three years ago. That is roughly a tripling of its popularity score in the last three years.

Exploring the trend towards open source database management systems
von Matthias Gelbmann, 3. November 2016
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, Open source DBMS

The popularity of open source DBMSs, as measured by the DB-Engines Ranking, has reached a new record. We analyze the underlying details.

Emerging and fading trends in database management systems
von Paul Andlinger, 4. Oktober 2016
Tags: DBaaS, Graph DBMS, Open source DBMS, Relational DBMS, Time Series DMBS

Articles on database technologies are jammed with buzzwords and prophecies of new trends, just like any other technology. We use the collected data of our DB-Engines Ranking to have a look at some of these trends.

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.

Open source RDBMS are gaining in popularity, but jobs are found elsewhere.
von Paul Andlinger, 2. September 2014
Tags: Commercial DBMS, DB-Engines Ranking, DB-Engines Reports, Open source DBMS

The September ranking shows the open source systems MySQL and PostgreSQL as the clear winners of the relational category. But a deeper look into the ranking sources reveals, that jobs are rather offered for the commercial tools Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2.

Open source DBMS's are gaining in popularity at the expense of commercial systems
von Paul Andlinger, 5. Mai 2014
Tags: Commercial DBMS, DB-Engines Ranking, Open source DBMS

If we split up the popularity scores of the DB-Engines Ranking into open source vs. commercial database systems, the commercial systems are still leading by 59:41. However, that ratio is down from 64:36 at the beginning of last year.