The Red9 Ranking System was created to gauge the popularity of DBMS (Database Management Systems) across the world. Below are several charts as well as table-based information to display our findings. Rankings are updated on a monthly basis, so all data is relevant and current.
| Database Management System |
Rank Now | July 2022 Jul 2022 | August 2021 Aug 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle | 1 | 3 2 | 1 | Oracle is a popular database for enterprise and web. Used in Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, MIT | |
| MySQL | 2 | 5 3 | 2 | The world's most popular database for web. Used in WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | 6 | 9 3 | 5 -1 | Microsoft SQL server is produced by Microsoft. Used in Enterprise applications, .NET, Bing | |
| Cassandra | 7 | 8 1 | 4 -3 | Popular use in large, active data sets. Used in eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit | |
| PostgreSQL | 8 | 9 1 | 3 -5 | Postgresql is an open-source object-relational database system. Used in Skype, CloudFlare | |
| MongoDB | 8 | 9 1 | 6 -2 | MongodB is document-based leading NoSQL database. Used in Google, Facebook, Adobe | |
| IBM Db2 | 10 | 10 | 7 -3 | IBM db2® developed by IBM.Used in 3scale, XMLi5 Ltd., ITAIPU BINACIONAL, Applic8 | |
| Redis | 11 | 12 1 | 10 -1 | Redis is a non-relational, NoSQL database. It is a well-known caching solution that excels at it | |
| Microsoft Access | 11 | 8 -3 | 13 2 | Popular database for enterprise applications. Used in the home or small business applications | |
| SQLite | 11 | 14 3 | 8 -3 | SQLite used in mobile phones (android device, iPhone, and ios device) and most computers | |
| MariaDB | 11 | 14 3 | 17 6 | Open Source MySQL fork by original database devleoper. Notable users like Wikipedia, and Google | |
| Elasticsearch | 12 | 15 3 | 12 | Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database used in-app search, site search, enterprise search, and metrics | |
| FileMaker | 17 | 17 | 11 -6 | Filemaker creates custom apps that manage contacts, invoices, projects, content, inventory | |
| Teradata | 18 | 20 2 | 14 -4 | Teradata is best suitable for big data and IoT. Only supported by Linux OS | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Database | 18 | 20 2 | 15 -3 | Microsoft Azure SQL database is a relational DBMS. Used in enterprise applications | |
| Splunk | 18 | 21 3 | 16 -2 | Splunk interacts with log data for the web. Used in AIRBUS, HYATT, CARNIVAL | |
| Solr | 19 | 22 3 | 22 3 | Solr probably the database of choice when building a search platform for Web sites | |
| Neo4j | 20 | 23 3 | 19 -1 | Neo4j is a graph-based database. Used in Hp, Walmart, Adobe, Volvo, Cisco | |
| Firebird | 22 | 21 -1 | 9 -13 | An open-source SQL relational database with stored procedures and triggers | |
| HBase | 22 | 24 2 | 18 -4 | HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It is used when data is in the form of a key-value pair | |
| Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB | 23 | 25 2 | 27 4 | Cosmos DB is JSON based database. It is scalable, multi-model database service | |
| Memcached | 23 | 26 3 | 23 | Memcached works like "Redis" and used by Facebook to build data-intensive features | |
| Informix | 23 | 25 2 | 20 -3 | IBM Informix is developed by IBM. Suited for embedded data-management solutions | |
| Amazon DynamoDB | 24 | 27 3 | 32 8 | NoSQL database service provided by Amazon. Used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| dBASE | 26 | 25 -1 | 21 -5 | dBase was one of the first databases. The up-to-date product is dBase plus | |
| Amazon Redshift | 27 | 30 3 | 24 -3 | Amazon Redshift is an internet hosting service. It is the part of amazon web services | |
| CouchDB | 28 | 31 3 | 31 3 | Couchdb uses HTTP requests to populate the database. It offers an easy-to-use API | |
| Spark SQL | 28 | 28 | 37 9 | Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing system. It provides a high-level API | |
| Couchbase | 29 | 29 | 26 -3 | One of the most popular database for the web. Used in Amadeus. LinkedIn, eBay, sky | |
| InfluxDB | 30 | 30 | 28 -2 | Influxdb is the open-source time-series database for web services. Used in the pipeline, eBay | |
| Firebase Realtime Database | 31 | 34 3 | 33 2 | Real-time database with data synchronization for web apps, Android, iOS, REST API | |
| Google BigQuery | 32 | 33 1 | 30 -2 | Bigquery is Google's data warehouse. It requires only storage and not queries | |
| Vertica | 32 | 29 -3 | 29 -3 | Vertica is popular for web database services. Used by ATLAS, GUESS, AIRCEL, AVITO | |
| Amazon Aurora | 32 | 31 -1 | 35 3 | Amazon aurora works with web apps. It is a part of amazon relational database service | |
| Microsoft Azure Search | 34 | 31 -3 | 43 9 | Microsoft azure search is a search engine database for web and mobile app development | |
| Google Cloud Firestore | 35 | 37 2 | 47 12 | Cloud Firestore is a server-less NoSQL document database for your mobile, web, and IoT apps | |
| Netezza | 38 | 41 3 | 34 -4 | IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics apps | |
| Hive | 39 | 37 -2 | 36 -3 | Suited for log processing, text mining, document indexing. Hive is used by Netflix, FINRA | |
| H2 | 40 | 42 2 | 45 5 | H2 is full of a supported RDBMS written in java and used as a database server | |
| Greenplum | 40 | 43 3 | 40 | Greenplum works on big data analytics like ai or IoT.It supports only Linux OS | |
| Ehcache | 41 | 39 -2 | 25 -16 | Ehcache is a widely adopted java cache memory block storing serialized data objects | |
| SAP HANA | 42 | 39 -3 | 41 -1 | SAP HANA is an in-memory database. Used in the advanced analytic real-time data processing | |
| Google Cloud Datastore | 42 | 43 1 | 49 7 | Highly-scalable NoSQL database for acid transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and much more | |
| Interbase | 43 | 40 -3 | 39 -4 | Interbase is used for tracking, disaster recovery, and data protection of web services | |
| Aerospike | 45 | 42 -3 | 46 1 | Aerospike is a modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage | |
| Derby | 45 | 47 2 | 50 5 | Apache derby embedded in java programs and used for online transaction processing | |
| OrientDB | 46 | 48 2 | 52 6 | OrientDB is incredibly fast, scalable with its multi-master replication | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | 47 | 44 -3 | 38 -9 | Suited for big data analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, and other large scale analysis | |
| Hazelcast | 47 | 44 -3 | 44 -3 | Hazelcast memory data grid platform. It makes I/O and processing much more efficient | |
| SAP Adaptive Server | 48 | 46 -2 | 51 3 | Sybase DB is primarily used for online transaction management on location and in the cloud | |