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.

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
by Paul Andlinger, 12 December 2019
Tags: Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, DBaaS, Firebase Realtime Database, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Firestore, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft Azure Search, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL Database

Cloud-based database management systems are continuously increasing in popularity. We analyze the trends and show the big players.

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
by Matthias Gelbmann, 7 February 2017
Tags: Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SimpleDB, Cloudant, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft Azure SQL Database

Cloud-based database management systems are still relatively exotic data storage solutions, adding up to only 1.6% of the popularity of the entire DBMS market. This is, however, a tenfold increase in the last four years.

Increased popularity for consuming DBMS services out of the cloud
by Paul Andlinger, 2 October 2015
Tags: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Cloudant, DBaaS, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server

According to the recent DB-Engines ranking, the popularity of Database as a Service offerings almost doubled in the last 12 months.