DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending
von DB-Engines, 1. Mai 2025
Tags: ClickHouse, Databricks, DB-Engines Ranking, DB-Engines Reports, DuckDB, MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake

Oracle maintains its top-ranking spot; persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake highlight Q1 2025 rankings analysis.

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2023
von Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 2. Januar 2024
Tags: Databricks, DBMS of the year, Google BigQuery, 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 417 monitored systems.
We thus declare PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2023.

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2022, defending the title from last year
von Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 3. Januar 2023
Tags: DBMS of the year, Google BigQuery, 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 402 monitored systems.
We thus declare Snowflake as the DBMS of the Year 2022.

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.

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.

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 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.

Microsoft SQL Server is the DBMS of the Year
von Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 4. Januar 2017
Tags: DBMS of the year, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 315 monitored systems.
We thus declare Microsoft SQL Server as the DBMS of the Year 2016.

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.

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.

Big gains for Relational Database Management Systems in DB-Engines Ranking
von Matthias Gelbmann, 2. Februar 2016
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Relational DBMS, SQLite

All of the 5 DBMSs that saw the biggest gains last month are relational systems. This confirms a trend we noticed since a half year.

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
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.

PostgreSQL advances to rank 4 in DB-Engines Ranking
von Paul Andlinger, 4. März 2013
Tags: PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL moved up one rank at the expense of Microsoft Access.

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.