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 | August 2021 Aug 2021 | September 2020 Sep 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle | 1 | 0 -1 | 1 | Oracle is a popular database for enterprise and web. Used in Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, MIT | |
| MySQL | 2 | 0 -2 | 2 | The world's most popular database for web. Used in WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | |
| PostgreSQL | 3 | 0 -3 | 4 1 | Postgresql is an open-source object-relational database system. Used in Skype, CloudFlare | |
| Cassandra | 4 | 0 -4 | 6 2 | Popular use in large, active data sets. Used in eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | 5 | 0 -5 | 5 | Microsoft SQL server is produced by Microsoft. Used in Enterprise applications, .NET, Bing | |
| MongoDB | 6 | 0 -6 | 3 -3 | MongodB is document-based leading NoSQL database. Used in Google, Facebook, Adobe | |
| IBM Db2 | 7 | 0 -7 | 7 | IBM db2® developed by IBM.Used in 3scale, XMLi5 Ltd., ITAIPU BINACIONAL, Applic8 | |
| SQLite | 8 | 0 -8 | 10 2 | SQLite used in mobile phones (android device, iPhone, and ios device) and most computers | |
| Firebird | 9 | 0 -9 | 17 8 | An open-source SQL relational database with stored procedures and triggers | |
| Redis | 10 | 0 -10 | 8 -2 | Redis is a non-relational, NoSQL database. It is a well-known caching solution that excels at it | |
| FileMaker | 11 | 0 -11 | 20 9 | Filemaker creates custom apps that manage contacts, invoices, projects, content, inventory | |
| Elasticsearch | 12 | 0 -12 | 13 1 | Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database used in-app search, site search, enterprise search, and metrics | |
| Microsoft Access | 13 | 0 -13 | 12 -1 | Popular database for enterprise applications. Used in the home or small business applications | |
| Teradata | 14 | 0 -14 | 15 1 | Teradata is best suitable for big data and IoT. Only supported by Linux OS | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Database | 15 | 0 -15 | 11 -4 | Microsoft Azure SQL database is a relational DBMS. Used in enterprise applications | |
| Splunk | 16 | 0 -16 | 9 -7 | Splunk interacts with log data for the web. Used in AIRBUS, HYATT, CARNIVAL | |
| MariaDB | 17 | 0 -17 | 14 -3 | Open Source MySQL fork by original database devleoper. Notable users like Wikipedia, and Google | |
| HBase | 18 | 0 -18 | 16 -2 | HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It is used when data is in the form of a key-value pair | |
| Neo4j | 19 | 0 -19 | 23 4 | Neo4j is a graph-based database. Used in Hp, Walmart, Adobe, Volvo, Cisco | |
| Informix | 20 | 0 -20 | 19 -1 | IBM Informix is developed by IBM. Suited for embedded data-management solutions | |
| dBASE | 21 | 0 -21 | 24 3 | dBase was one of the first databases. The up-to-date product is dBase plus | |
| Solr | 22 | 0 -22 | 18 -4 | Solr probably the database of choice when building a search platform for Web sites | |
| Memcached | 23 | 0 -23 | 21 -2 | Memcached works like "Redis" and used by Facebook to build data-intensive features | |
| Amazon Redshift | 24 | 0 -24 | 28 4 | Amazon Redshift is an internet hosting service. It is the part of amazon web services | |
| Ehcache | 25 | 0 -25 | 44 19 | Ehcache is a widely adopted java cache memory block storing serialized data objects | |
| Couchbase | 26 | 0 -26 | 29 3 | One of the most popular database for the web. Used in Amadeus. LinkedIn, eBay, sky | |
| Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB | 27 | 0 -27 | 26 -1 | Cosmos DB is JSON based database. It is scalable, multi-model database service | |
| InfluxDB | 28 | 0 -28 | 38 10 | Influxdb is the open-source time-series database for web services. Used in the pipeline, eBay | |
| Vertica | 29 | 0 -29 | 33 4 | Vertica is popular for web database services. Used by ATLAS, GUESS, AIRCEL, AVITO | |
| Google BigQuery | 30 | 0 -30 | 36 6 | Bigquery is Google's data warehouse. It requires only storage and not queries | |
| CouchDB | 31 | 0 -31 | 24 -7 | Couchdb uses HTTP requests to populate the database. It offers an easy-to-use API | |
| Amazon DynamoDB | 32 | 0 -32 | 34 2 | NoSQL database service provided by Amazon. Used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| Firebase Realtime Database | 33 | 0 -33 | 39 6 | Real-time database with data synchronization for web apps, Android, iOS, REST API | |
| Netezza | 34 | 0 -34 | 32 -2 | IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics apps | |
| Amazon Aurora | 35 | 0 -35 | 42 7 | Amazon aurora works with web apps. It is a part of amazon relational database service | |
| Hive | 36 | 0 -36 | 40 4 | Suited for log processing, text mining, document indexing. Hive is used by Netflix, FINRA | |
| Spark SQL | 37 | 0 -37 | 31 -6 | Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing system. It provides a high-level API | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | 38 | 0 -38 | 28 -10 | Suited for big data analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, and other large scale analysis | |
| Interbase | 39 | 0 -39 | 31 -8 | Interbase is used for tracking, disaster recovery, and data protection of web services | |
| Greenplum | 40 | 0 -40 | 37 -3 | Greenplum works on big data analytics like ai or IoT.It supports only Linux OS | |
| SAP HANA | 41 | 0 -41 | 41 | SAP HANA is an in-memory database. Used in the advanced analytic real-time data processing | |
| MarkLogic | 42 | 0 -42 | 41 -1 | Marklogic works as a graph, or as relational data. It privileges with security administration | |
| Microsoft Azure Search | 43 | 0 -43 | 47 4 | Microsoft azure search is a search engine database for web and mobile app development | |
| Hazelcast | 44 | 0 -44 | 43 -1 | Hazelcast memory data grid platform. It makes I/O and processing much more efficient | |
| H2 | 45 | 0 -45 | 47 2 | H2 is full of a supported RDBMS written in java and used as a database server | |
| Aerospike | 46 | 0 -46 | 45 -1 | Aerospike is a modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage | |
| Google Cloud Firestore | 47 | 0 -47 | 46 -1 | Cloud Firestore is a server-less NoSQL document database for your mobile, web, and IoT apps | |
| Oracle Essbase | 48 | 0 -48 | 48 | Essbase is a multidimensional database while working on vast numbers of users, a large data set | |
| Google Cloud Datastore | 49 | 0 -49 | 49 | Highly-scalable NoSQL database for acid transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and much more | |
| Derby | 50 | 0 -50 | 50 | Apache derby embedded in java programs and used for online transaction processing | |