Cassandra keeps climbing the ranks of the DB-Engines Ranking
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 May 2016
Tags: Cassandra

Cassandra moves up to rank #7 in the DB-Engines Ranking, overtaking Microsoft Access. Part of its success lies in the fact that it is different.

Oracle is the DBMS of the Year
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 5 January 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
by 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
by Paul Andlinger, 1 July 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.

Cassandra gained one rank and improves to 9th position
by Paul Andlinger, 2 April 2014
Tags: Cassandra, Database models, Graph DBMS, Relational DBMS, Wide column stores

While Cassandra achieves its best position ever, other trends are stabilizing in this months ranking.

MongoDB is the DBMS of the year
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 7 January 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.

Cassandra advances into the top 10 most popular database engines
by Paul Andlinger, 3 September 2013
Tags: Cassandra, NoSQL

The top 10 database engines now include two NoSQL systems, after Cassandra gained one rank.

Why is Hadoop not listed in the DB-Engines Ranking?
by Paul Andlinger, 13 May 2013
Tags: Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase, Hive

We are often asked why we do not list Hadoop in the DB-Engines ranking. So we provide the way we see it.

Oracle and Cassandra increase their DB-Engines Ranking score
by Paul Andlinger, 2 January 2013
Tags: Cassandra, DB-Engines Ranking, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

Among the top 10 DB engines, only Oracle and Cassandra could increase their popularity score, while MySQL regained rank 2 from SQL Server.

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 3 October 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.