Ranking > Open Source vs. Commercial
Popularity of open source DBMS versus commercial DBMS
Based on the measurements we are using for our ranking of database management systems, we analyze the popularity of open source tools compared to the popularity of commercial systems.
A system is classified as open source, when the source code is freely available and may be used and modified according to respective licenses.
Number of systems, October 2019
| DB-Engines lists 355 different database management systems. This pie chart shows the number of open source and commercial systems. |
Popularity scores, October 2019
| This pie chart compares the popularity of open source and commercial systems. It is calculated by summing up the popularity (i.e. the ranking scores) of all individual systems. |
Popularity trend
The above chart shows the historical trend of the popularity of open source and commercial database management systems.
Popularity broken down by database model, October 2019
This chart demonstrates that the popularity of open source tools heavily depends on their database model.
The top 5 commercial systems, October 2019
| Rank | System | Score | Overall Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Oracle | 1356 | 1. |
| 2. | Microsoft SQL Server | 1095 | 3. |
| 3. | IBM Db2 | 171 | 6. |
| 4. | Microsoft Access | 131 | 9. |
| 5. | Splunk | 87 | 12. |
The top 5 open source systems, October 2019
| Rank | System | Score | Overall Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | MySQL | 1283 | 2. |
| 2. | PostgreSQL | 484 | 4. |
| 3. | MongoDB | 412 | 5. |
| 4. | Elasticsearch | 150 | 7. |
| 5. | Redis | 143 | 8. |
Upcoming Events | » more DBMS events | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRAKN.AI event Grakn Cosmos, the universal conference of technologies built using Grakn London, UK 6-7 February 2020 | Neo4j event GraphConnect 2020 New York, USA 20-22 April 2020 | Microsoft SQL Server event PASS Summit 2019 Seattle, Washington, USA 5-8 November 2019 | |||||||
Share this page
