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.

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.

The struggle for the hegemony in Oracle's database empire
by Paul Andlinger, 2 May 2017
Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

Oracle's flagship RDBMS and its open source competitor MySQL fight for being the most popular database management system. But the DB-Engines ranking indicates that other systems may benefit from this race.

Architecting eCommerce Platforms for Zero Downtime on Black Friday and Beyond
by Tony Branson (guest author), 25 November 2016
Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Scalability

Find out how to avoid downtime on Black Friday, find the best database design for your site, learn how to leverage Database Load Balancing to get your desired results.

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
by Paul Andlinger, 2 March 2016
Tags: 4D, DB2, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Neo4j, Open source DBMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Realm, Redis

While the open-source DBMS show a very good performance in this months ranking, we monitor some popularity drops for the large commercial systems.

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.

The openCypher Project: Help Shape the SQL for Graphs
by Emil Eifrem (guest author), 22 December 2015
Tags: Cypher, Graph DBMS, Neo4j, Oracle

Learn how you can get involved with the graph database community’s newest collaboration: the openCypher project, an open source query language for graphs.

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.

MySQL won the April ranking; did its forks follow?
by Paul Andlinger, 1 April 2015
Tags: Drizzle, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Percona Server, WebScaleSQL

MySQL is the clear winner of the April ranking, but the various forks do not show a uniform performance.

Graph DBMS increased their popularity by 500% within the last 2 years
by Paul Andlinger, 3 March 2015
Tags: Database models, DB2, Graph DBMS, Neo4j, Oracle, OrientDB, Relational DBMS, Titan

Graph DBMS show an extraordinary momentum and are making their way into enterprises.

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.

Microsoft SQL Server regained rank 2 in the DB-Engines popularity ranking
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 December 2012
Tags: DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

After it slipped last month to rank 3 behind MySQL, SQL Server is back to position 2 in our December ranking with a very small difference in the scores.

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.