Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2021
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 3 January 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.

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2020
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 4 January 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.

MySQL is the DBMS of the Year 2019
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 3 January 2020
Tags: DBMS of the year, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

MySQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 350 monitored systems.
We thus declare MySQL as the DBMS of the Year 2019.

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2018
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 2 January 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
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 2 January 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
by Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger, 4 January 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.

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.

MongoDB is the DBMS of the year, defending the title from last year
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 7 January 2015
Tags: DBMS of the year, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis

MongoDB is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 240 monitored systems.
We thus declare MongoDB as the DBMS of the year 2014.

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.