DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending
by DB-Engines, 1 May 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.

Ten years of DB-Engines.com
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 13 October 2022
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

DB-Engines.com was launched ten year ago. Quite a few things have changed since then in our portal and in the DBMS industry.

The evolution of DBMS popularity in the DB-Engines Ranking, 2013-2022
by Matthias Gelbmann, 17 March 2022
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

We show how the most popular DMBS in the DB-Engines Ranking evolved in the last 10 years in form of a bar chart race.

Open source database management systems are now more popular than commercial offerings
by Matthias Gelbmann, 13 January 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.

New options in the DB-Engines ranking for multi-model DBMS
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 19 February 2019
Tags: Database models, DB-Engines Ranking, Multi-model DBMS

We recently changed the way we treat the multi-model aspect of database management systems and introduced a new option in the popularity rankings. This article explains the ideas behind.

Five years of DB-Engines.com
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 11 October 2017
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

We launched DB-Engines five years ago. This is a little summary of how it started and what we have achieved.

Exploring the trend towards open source database management systems
by 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.

PostgreSQL moves up one rank at the expense of MongoDB
by 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.

DB-Engines Ranking now covers more than 300 database management systems
by Paul Andlinger, 4 April 2016
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

By adding another 4 tools to our DBMS popularity ranking, we now cover 303 tools.

Big gains for Relational Database Management Systems in DB-Engines Ranking
by Matthias Gelbmann, 2 February 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.

Some remarks about the DB-Engines ranking score
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 3 December 2015
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

The recent DB-Engines Ranking of December 2015 produced some surprises. Several systems, which continuosly showed a very positive trend (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Neo4j) in the past, lost points in the recent ranking. Other major players, with a rather stuttering trend in the ranking so far, heavily increased their score (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server). Why did that come?

DB-Engines Ranking now covers 256 database management systems
by Matthias Gelbmann, 2 February 2015
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

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

New DB-Engines Ranking: newcomers, winners & losers
by Paul Andlinger, 3 November 2014
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

The November ranking presents some interesting newcomers together with winners and losers, which one might not have expected.

Open source RDBMS are gaining in popularity, but jobs are found elsewhere.
by 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.

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
by Paul Andlinger, 4 August 2014
Tags: Cloudant, DB-Engines Ranking, MemSQL, NuoDB, RethinkDB

Some of the systems in our long list of database management systems are not yet that popular, but show a strong upward trend.

Open source DBMS's are gaining in popularity at the expense of commercial systems
by Paul Andlinger, 5 May 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.

Multi-model database systems as a new trend!
by Paul Andlinger, 3 March 2014
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, Multi-model DBMS

According to the trend to multi-model database systems, we made some changes to our categorization methodology and reclassified a couple of systems.

NoSQL systems continue to be on the rise
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 December 2013
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, NoSQL, Relational DBMS

The DB-Engines Ranking for December shows a decline in the ranking score for two of the dominant relational systems, while most others, particularly the NoSQL systems are gaining.

DB-Engines Ranking now covers more than 200 database management systems
by Matthias Gelbmann, 1 November 2013
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

By adding another 10 tools to our DBMS popularity ranking, we now cover 204 tools.

One year of DB-Engines.com
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 2 October 2013
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

DB-Engines.com went online exactly one year ago. Time for a little review.

DB-Engines Ranking coverage expanded to 169 database management systems
by Paul Andlinger, 3 June 2013
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, dBASE

We added another 15 DBMS to our ranking.

Historical trends of DB-Engines popularity ranking
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 5 April 2013
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

Sometimes, the changes of popularity over time is more interesting than the absolute values. Therefore, we start presenting historical data of our DB-Engines ranking.

Our DB-Engines ranking identifies the most popular DBMS systems in various database model categories
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 22 January 2013
Tags: Database models, DB-Engines Ranking, Document stores, Graph DBMS, Key-value stores, RDF stores, Wide column stores

We have introduced sub-rankings by spliting up the DBMS systems per database models.

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.

DB-Engines popularity ranking greatly expanded
by Matthias Gelbmann, 5 November 2012
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking

In the new November ranking we have added more than 50 additional database management systems.

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.

DB-Engines launched
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 1 October 2012
Tags: DB-Engines Ranking, NoSQL

DB-Engines is a new initiative to collect and present information on relational and NoSQL database management systems.