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DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

This is a partial list of the complete ranking showing only key-value stores.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

☑ include secondary database models				75 systems in ranking, May 2025
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
May 2025	Apr 2025	May 2024	DBMS	Database Model	May 2025	Apr 2025	May 2024
1.	1.	1.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	152.19	-1.92	-5.61
2.	2.	2.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	79.30	+2.81	+5.23
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	22.94	+0.39	-6.10
4.	4.	4.	Memcached	Key-value	15.47	+0.49	-3.95
5.	5.	5.	Couchbase	Multi-model Document store Vector DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS Wide column store	13.82	-0.23	-3.48
6.	6.	6.	etcd	Key-value	7.14	+0.09	-0.11
7.	7.	7.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	5.58	+0.03	-0.39
8.	8.	8.	Aerospike Detailed vendor-provided information available	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS Vector DBMS	5.45	+0.22	-0.32
9.	9.	9.	Trino	Relational, Multi-model Relational DBMS Document store Key-value store Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Wide column store	5.34	+0.15	+0.34
10.	10.	10.	Ehcache	Key-value	3.98	+0.04	-0.91
11.	11.	11.	ScyllaDB	Wide column, Multi-model Wide column store Key-value store	3.70	0.00	-1.05
12.	12.	20.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	3.39	-0.04	+0.44
13.	15.	18.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	3.23	+0.13	+0.07
14.	13.	12.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.21	-0.03	-0.89
15.	14.	14.	RocksDB	Key-value	3.21	+0.07	-0.45
16.	16.	15.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	2.85	+0.03	-0.47
17.	17.	17.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.71	-0.01	-0.49
18.	18.	16.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.66	-0.01	-0.60
19.	19.	19.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.47	+0.06	-0.52
20.	20.	13.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.15	-0.05	-1.90
21.	21.	25.	GridDB Detailed vendor-provided information available	Time Series, Multi-model Time Series DBMS Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.00	+0.00	+0.05
22.	23.	22.	LevelDB	Key-value	1.92	+0.02	-0.43
23.	22.	21.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.92	-0.07	-0.60
24.	24.	24.	LMDB	Key-value	1.75	+0.01	-0.23
25.	25.	23.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.72	+0.01	-0.50
26.	26.	26.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.66	+0.01	-0.26
27.	27.	28.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.63	+0.01	-0.22
28.	28.	29.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.42	-0.04	-0.30
29.	31.		Valkey	Key-value	1.35	+0.21
30.	29.	30.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.33	+0.00	-0.15
31.	30.	27.	Geode	Key-value	1.31	+0.00	-0.62
32.	32.	31.	GT.M	Key-value	0.90	+0.00	-0.24
33.	33.	32.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.89	+0.02	-0.14
34.	34.	33.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.85	+0.00	-0.10
35.	35.	34.	ZODB	Key-value	0.75	-0.05	-0.11
36.	36.	37.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.71	+0.04	+0.01
37.	37.	35.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.61	+0.03	-0.13
38.	38.	39.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.58	+0.06	-0.04
39.	39.	42.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.53	+0.02	+0.11
40.	40.	36.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.48	+0.01	-0.23
41.	41.	40.	MapDB	Key-value	0.45	-0.01	-0.10
42.	42.	41.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.42	0.00	-0.13
43.	43.	38.	Hibari	Key-value	0.37	+0.02	-0.27
44.	44.	44.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.32	+0.03	-0.01
45.	45.	43.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.28	+0.01	-0.06
46.	46.	47.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.26	+0.00	+0.02
47.	47.	45.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.25	+0.03	-0.04
48.	51.	52.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.22	+0.05	+0.02
49.	48.	54.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.22	+0.01	+0.11
50.	50.	51.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.20	+0.02	0.00
51.	49.	53.	Badger	Key-value	0.20	+0.01	+0.06
52.	52.	49.	Speedb	Key-value	0.17	+0.05	-0.04
53.	56.	57.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.11	+0.05	+0.09
54.	53.	46.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.09	+0.01	-0.17
55.	55.	55.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.06	0.00	+0.01
56.	54.	48.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.06	-0.01	-0.15
57.	57.	59.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.06	0.00	+0.04
58.	58.	50.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	0.00	-0.15
59.	62.	64.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.04	+0.03	+0.04
60.	60.	58.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.03	+0.01	+0.01
61.	59.	56.	STSdb	Key-value	0.03	0.00	-0.01
62.	61.	60.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.01	0.00	0.00
63.	64.	62.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
64.	65.	63.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
65.	66.	64.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	61.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	0.00
65.	63.	64.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
65.	66.	64.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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