DB-Engines shares Q3 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and Databricks lead the charge as cloud and AI continue to shape the landscape
by DB-Engines, 10 October 2025
Tags: AI, DB-Engines Ranking, DB-Engines Reports

While Oracle retains its position as the most popular database management system (DBMS), this quarter highlights continued growth from Snowflake and Databricks, reflecting the accelerating shift towards cloud-native and AI-driven data platforms.

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.

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.