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.

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.

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.

Notable DBMS presentation: Yao Yu on how Redis is used at Twitter
by Matthias Gelbmann, 25 September 2014
Tags: Redis

Building the caching layer at Twitter is not an everyday challenge. Yao Yu presents why and how they are using Redis for that task.

Redis extends the lead in the DB-Engines key-value store ranking
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 February 2014
Tags: Key-value stores, Memcached, Redis, Riak

Despite very fierce competition, Redis remains the most popular key-value store and they keep getting stronger.