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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				76 systems in ranking, January 2026
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Jan 2026	Dec 2025	Jan 2025	DBMS	Database Model	Jan 2026	Dec 2025	Jan 2025
1.	1.	1.	MongoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Multivalue DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	376.74	+4.46	-25.77
2.	2.	2.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	144.16	+1.68	-9.20
3.	3.	3.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	69.79	-3.17	-3.21
4.	4.	4.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	24.80	+1.00	+1.84
5.	5.	5.	Memcached	Key-value	14.79	-0.32	-1.81
6.	6.	6.	Couchbase	Multi-model Document store Vector DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS Wide column store	11.62	+0.23	-4.39
7.	7.	7.	etcd	Key-value	7.62	-0.10	+0.54
8.	8.	9.	Trino	Relational, Multi-model Relational DBMS Document store Key-value store Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Wide column store	6.99	+0.06	+1.59
9.	9.	8.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	5.32	-0.09	-0.27
10.	10.	12.	ScyllaDB Detailed vendor-provided information available	Wide column, Multi-model Wide column store Key-value store	4.29	0.00	+0.63
11.	11.	10.	Aerospike	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS	3.77	-0.15	-1.28
12.	12.	19.	RocksDB	Key-value	3.57	+0.31	+0.84
13.	16.	16.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	3.31	+0.29	+0.40
14.	13.	13.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.23	+0.01	-0.25
15.	14.	11.	Ehcache	Key-value	2.96	-0.22	-1.43
16.	15.	14.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.93	-0.16	-0.30
17.	17.	15.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.89	0.00	-0.04
18.	18.	21.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.71	-0.02	+0.27
19.	19.	17.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.58	-0.03	-0.22
20.	20.	18.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.58	-0.01	-0.21
21.	22.		Valkey	Key-value	2.27	+0.19
22.	21.	20.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.08	-0.06	-0.48
23.	23.	25.	LMDB	Key-value	1.96	0.00	+0.08
24.	24.	23.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.93	-0.01	-0.15
25.	25.	22.	LevelDB	Key-value	1.90	-0.01	-0.20
26.	26.	27.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.75	+0.01	+0.06
27.	28.	26.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.65	0.00	-0.17
28.	27.	24.	GridDB Detailed vendor-provided information available	Time Series, Multi-model Time Series DBMS Key-value store Relational DBMS	1.64	-0.08	-0.29
29.	29.	28.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.62	+0.00	-0.03
30.	30.	30.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.37	-0.03	-0.01
31.	31.	31.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.36	-0.01	+0.04
32.	32.	29.	Geode	Key-value	1.34	-0.01	-0.05
33.	34.	33.	GT.M	Key-value	0.94	+0.00	+0.03
34.	33.	35.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.91	-0.03	+0.02
35.	35.	32.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.89	+0.05	-0.04
36.	36.	34.	ZODB	Key-value	0.80	-0.03	-0.09
37.	37.	36.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.70	+0.02	+0.04
38.	38.	37.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.58	0.00	-0.02
39.	39.	38.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.57	+0.01	+0.03
40.	40.	39.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.54	0.00	+0.05
41.	41.	41.	MapDB	Key-value	0.44	-0.01	-0.04
42.	44.	40.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.42	+0.01	-0.07
43.	42.	42.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.42	0.00	-0.03
44.	43.	44.	Hibari	Key-value	0.40	-0.02	+0.02
45.	45.	46.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.39	-0.01	+0.13
46.	46.	45.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.26	+0.00	-0.03
47.	48.	47.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.22	+0.00	+0.00
48.	47.	49.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.22	0.00	+0.05
49.	49.	51.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.21	0.00	+0.04
50.	50.	58.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.18	0.00	+0.14
51.	51.	49.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	+0.00	+0.00
52.	52.	43.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.17	+0.00	-0.22
53.	53.	53.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.16	+0.01	+0.08
54.	54.	54.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.16	+0.02	+0.07
55.	55.	48.	Badger	Key-value	0.11	0.00	-0.09
56.	56.	52.	Speedb	Key-value	0.10	+0.00	-0.01
57.	57.	56.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.07	+0.00	+0.02
58.	58.	55.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	+0.00	0.00
59.	59.	59.	STSdb	Key-value	0.04	+0.00	+0.01
60.	61.	60.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.03	+0.01	+0.01
61.	60.	61.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.02	-0.01	+0.01
62.	62.	62.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
63.	63.	63.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
64.	64.	64.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	57.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.04
64.	64.	64.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
64.	64.	64.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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