The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems by popularity, covering over 410 systems. The ranking criteria include number of search engine results when searching for the system names, Google Trends, Stack Overflow discussions, job offers with mentions of the systems, number of profiles in professional networks such as LinkedIn, mentions in social networks such as Twitter. The ranking is updated monthly. It has been described and cited in various database-related articles.

By grouping over specific database features like database model or type of license, regularly published statistics reveal historical trends which are used in strategic statements.

In June 2024, the assets of DB-Engines were bought by Redgate Software. Redgate stated that it would retain the DB-Engines branding and identity and continue to provide trusted and independent monthly database ranking reports.

History The DB-Engines DBMS portal was created in 2012 and is maintained by the Austrian consulting company Solid IT. Based on its ranking, DB-Engines grants a yearly award for the system that gained most in popularity within a year.

The award winners are: 2013 – MongoDB 2014 – MongoDB 2015 – Oracle 2016 – Microsoft SQL Server 2017 – PostgreSQL 2018 – PostgreSQL 2019 – MySQL 2020 – PostgreSQL 2021 – Snowflake 2022 – Snowflake 2023 – PostgreSQL 2024 – Snowflake

Methodology

The ranking comes from an average of the following parameters after normalization:

Number of mentions in search engines queries Google Bing Frequency of searches Google Trends Number of related questions and the number of interested users Stack Overflow DBA Stack Exchange Number of job postings Indeed Simply Hired Number of profiles in professional networks LinkedIn Number of mentions in social networks Twitter

DB-Engine Ranking list DB-engine ranking list as of July 2026:https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Oracle Database MySQL Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL MongoDB Snowflake Databricks Redis IBM Db2 Apache Cassandra SQLite Elasticsearch MariaDB Microsoft Azure SQL Database Splunk Apache Hive Microsoft Access Amazon DynamoDB Google BigQuery Neo4j SAP HANA Apache Solr Teradata FileMaker SAP Adaptive Server ClickHouse Apache Spark PostGIS InfluxDB Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB OpenSearch Apache HBase Microsoft Fabric Firebird Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Amazon Redshift Firebase Realtime Database Memcached Informix Apache Flink Apache Impala DuckDB Amazon Aurora Couchbase Prometheus Google Cloud Firestore Pinecone H2 Vertica Kdb+ dBASE etcd Trino Algolia Milvus Realm Netezza Microsoft Azure AI Search Presto Qdrant Sphinx CouchDB TimescaleDB Greenplum DolphinDBhttps://dolphindb.com ScyllaDB Weaviatehttps://github.com/weaviate/weaviate Hazelcast CockroachDB Oracle Essbase Graphite Aerospike Apache Jackrabbit RocksDB MarkLogic Apache Druid Alibaba Cloud PolarDB InterBase TiDB SAP SQL Anywhere Arango Oracle NoSQL Database QuestDBhttps://github.com/questdb/questdb OpenEdge Google Cloud Datastore DataStax Enterprise Ingres Riak KV Azure Data Explorer Chroma Apache Derby SingleStore TDenginehttps://github.com/taosdata/TDengine Ehcache Google Cloud Spanner Microsoft Azure Table Storage Apache Ignite ADABAS Amazon Neptune GemFirehttps://gemfire.dev HyperSQL Valkey Apache Accumulo Virtuoso OrientDB Google Cloud Bigtable Apache Jena – TDB GraphDB OceanBasehttps://github.com/oceanbase/oceanbase IBM Cloudant SAP IQ Coveo InterSystems IRIS RavenDB RethinkDB Apache IoTDB Citushttps://github.com/citusdata/citus Apache Phoenix YugabyteDB Rockset GBase 4D CloudKit UniData / UniVerse Stardog Amazon DocumentDB Amazon CloudSearch LMDB Percona Server for MySQL Infinispan LevelDB TigerGraph JanusGraph PouchDBhttps://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb MaxDB Memgraphhttps://github.com/memgraph/memgraph NebulaGraph SpatiaLite Apache Drill EDB Postgreshttps://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment VictoriaMetricshttps://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics PlanetScalehttps://github.com/planetscale StarRockshttps://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks Oracle Coherence Faunahttps://github.com/fauna MonetDB IMS Amazon SimpleDB Datomic Oracle Berkeley DB Vitess EXASOL RRDtool GridDBhttps://github.com/griddb/griddb SurrealDB Meilisearchhttps://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch BaseX OpenTSDBhttps://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb D3 (DBMS) jBASE GridGainhttps://github.com/gridgain/gridgain TDSQL for MySQL Geodehttps://github.com/apache/geode HFSQL Tarantool Amazon Timestreamhttps://aws.amazon.com/timestream Dgraph Empress Actian NoSQL Database VoltDB Apache Kylin ObjectBox Arc Typesense Mnesia Db4o HEAVY.AI IBM Db2 Warehouse LiteDBhttps://github.com/litedb-org/LiteDB Amazon Keyspaces ObjectStore FoundationDB Tibero openGauss TimesTen Datameer SQLBase KurrentDB (EventStoreDB) Giraph Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute Dolt NonStop SQL Vespa Xapian GT.M GigaSpaces DataEase mSQL M3DB Apache HAWQ Oracle Rdb NCache CUBRID Alibaba AnalyticDB for MySQL IDMS Sedna Altibase HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric RisingWave NuoDB KeyDBhttps://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB GeoMesa AllegroGraph Yellowbrick Blazegraph ZODB Infobright BigchainDBhttps://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb Model 204 Apache Sedona MatrixOne Actian Vector SciDB RDF4J Graph Engine eXist-db Alibaba AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL Datacom/DB TypeDB Kinetica CrateDB R:BASE SQream DB Firebolt Apache Pinot DragonflyDBDragonflyDB BoltDB Objectivity/DB Splice Machine DBISAM 1010data SolidDB ObjectDB Perst KairosDB Percona Server for MongoDB Northgate Reality ITTIA Scalaris Alibaba Cloud Log Service Atotihttps://github.com/activeviam/autopivot NexusDB FrontBase eXtremeDB Kyligence Enterprise ScaleArc SQL.js WebSphere eXtreme Scale YDB MapDB Kingbase Cloudflare Workers KV OpenInsight Deep Lake GemStone/S Elassandra Apache Doris Alibaba Cloud TSDB Hibari RaptorDB Comdb2 Marqo Harper CnosDB VistaDB LokiJS AlaSQL Actian PSQL Databend SearchBlox Rasdaman Mimer SQL Starcounter FalkorDBhttps://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB Fluree Sequoiadb Postgres-XL InfiniteGraph Strabonhttps://github.com/AI-team-UoA/Strabon Mulgara ArcadeDB FeatureBase Brytlyt OpenQM Project Voldemort Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres Kyoto Tycoon RedStore Valdhttps://github.com/vdaas/vald Manticore Search Tokyo Tyrant PieCloudDB ModeShape XTDB Actian FastObjects LeanXcale YTsaurus RDFox Immudb PipelineDB NEventStore 4store Axibase YottaDB AnzoGraph DB TransLattice Warp 10https://github.com/senx/warp10-platform MyScale Raima Database Manager Faircom DB BigObject XtremeData OrigoDB Tibco ComputeDB EsgynDB ElevateDB GreptimeDB Apache HugeGraph Tajohttps://github.com/apache/incubator-tajo IBM Db2 Event Store Valentina Server Redland Ultipa Quasardb chDB HyperGraphDB Riak TS Linter Sparksee Lovefield FlockDB AgensGraph Speedb Bangdb TerminusDB Badger Exorbyte SiteWhere ScaleOut StateServer Alibaba Cloud Table Store GraphBase CubicWeb EJDB Blueflood Elliptics Kuzuhttps://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu SenseiDB VictoriaLogs Indica Forge (IRONdb) Machbase Neo NosDB STSdb WakandaDB Sadas Engine Jade JethroData Heroic Hawkular Metrics OpenMLDB Dydra SmallSQL SparkleDB Faircom EDGE gStore TinkerGraph Acebase Resin Cache SWC-DB Eloquera OushuDB Siaqodb LedisDB SwayDB ActorDB AntDB BergDB BrightstarDB Cachelot.io CortexDB CovenantSQL DaggerDB DataFS Diana DB Easysearch Edge Intelligence EdgelessDB Galaxybase H2GIS Helium HGraphDB HyperLevelDB iBoxDB InfinityDB JaguarDB JasDB K-DB Newtshttps://github.com/OpenNMS/newts NSDb openGemini OpenTenBase RayforceDB ReductStore Rizhiyi searchxml SiriDB Skytable SpaceTime SpacetimeDB SvectorDB TerarkDB TidesDB Tigrishttps://github.com/tigrisdata-archive/tigris Tkrzw TomP2P Transbase Transwarp ArgoDB Transwarp Hippo Transwarp KunDB Transwarp StellarDB Upscaledb VelocityDB VillageSQL WhiteDB

See also Comparison of relational database management systems List of relational database management systems List of NoSQL software and tools

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DB-Engines Ranking of Relational DBMS