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 | May 2023 May 2023 | June 2022 Jun 2022 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle | 1 | 1 | 0 -1 | Oracle is a popular database for enterprise and web. Used in Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, MIT | |
| MySQL | 2 | 2 | 0 -2 | The world's most popular database for web. Used in WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | |
| MongoDB | 5 | 8 3 | 0 -5 | MongodB is document-based leading NoSQL database. Used in Google, Facebook, Adobe | |
| Cassandra | 5 | 7 2 | 0 -5 | Popular use in large, active data sets. Used in eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | 6 | 6 | 0 -6 | Microsoft SQL server is produced by Microsoft. Used in Enterprise applications, .NET, Bing | |
| PostgreSQL | 6 | 8 2 | 0 -6 | Postgresql is an open-source object-relational database system. Used in Skype, CloudFlare | |
| Redis | 8 | 11 3 | 0 -8 | Redis is a non-relational, NoSQL database. It is a well-known caching solution that excels at it | |
| IBM Db2 | 9 | 10 1 | 0 -9 | IBM db2® developed by IBM.Used in 3scale, XMLi5 Ltd., ITAIPU BINACIONAL, Applic8 | |
| SQLite | 10 | 11 1 | 0 -10 | SQLite used in mobile phones (android device, iPhone, and ios device) and most computers | |
| MariaDB | 11 | 11 | 0 -11 | Open Source MySQL fork by original database devleoper. Notable users like Wikipedia, and Google | |
| Elasticsearch | 12 | 12 | 0 -12 | Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database used in-app search, site search, enterprise search, and metrics | |
| Microsoft Access | 14 | 11 -3 | 0 -14 | Popular database for enterprise applications. Used in the home or small business applications | |
| Teradata | 15 | 18 3 | 0 -15 | Teradata is best suitable for big data and IoT. Only supported by Linux OS | |
| FileMaker | 16 | 17 1 | 0 -16 | Filemaker creates custom apps that manage contacts, invoices, projects, content, inventory | |
| Splunk | 16 | 18 2 | 0 -16 | Splunk interacts with log data for the web. Used in AIRBUS, HYATT, CARNIVAL | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Database | 17 | 18 1 | 0 -17 | Microsoft Azure SQL database is a relational DBMS. Used in enterprise applications | |
| Neo4j | 18 | 20 2 | 0 -18 | Neo4j is a graph-based database. Used in Hp, Walmart, Adobe, Volvo, Cisco | |
| Solr | 20 | 19 -1 | 0 -20 | Solr probably the database of choice when building a search platform for Web sites | |
| HBase | 20 | 22 2 | 0 -20 | HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It is used when data is in the form of a key-value pair | |
| Memcached | 20 | 23 3 | 0 -20 | Memcached works like "Redis" and used by Facebook to build data-intensive features | |
| Informix | 21 | 23 2 | 0 -21 | IBM Informix is developed by IBM. Suited for embedded data-management solutions | |
| Firebird | 22 | 22 | 0 -22 | An open-source SQL relational database with stored procedures and triggers | |
| Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB | 23 | 23 | 0 -23 | Cosmos DB is JSON based database. It is scalable, multi-model database service | |
| CouchDB | 25 | 28 3 | 0 -25 | Couchdb uses HTTP requests to populate the database. It offers an easy-to-use API | |
| Amazon DynamoDB | 25 | 24 -1 | 0 -25 | NoSQL database service provided by Amazon. Used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| Spark SQL | 26 | 28 2 | 0 -26 | Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing system. It provides a high-level API | |
| Amazon Redshift | 27 | 27 | 0 -27 | Amazon Redshift is an internet hosting service. It is the part of amazon web services | |
| dBASE | 28 | 26 -2 | 0 -28 | dBase was one of the first databases. The up-to-date product is dBase plus | |
| Couchbase | 28 | 29 1 | 0 -28 | One of the most popular database for the web. Used in Amadeus. LinkedIn, eBay, sky | |
| Google BigQuery | 31 | 32 1 | 0 -31 | Bigquery is Google's data warehouse. It requires only storage and not queries | |
| Vertica | 32 | 32 | 0 -32 | Vertica is popular for web database services. Used by ATLAS, GUESS, AIRCEL, AVITO | |
| InfluxDB | 33 | 30 -3 | 0 -33 | Influxdb is the open-source time-series database for web services. Used in the pipeline, eBay | |
| Microsoft Azure Search | 33 | 34 1 | 0 -33 | Microsoft azure search is a search engine database for web and mobile app development | |
| Firebase Realtime Database | 33 | 31 -2 | 0 -33 | Real-time database with data synchronization for web apps, Android, iOS, REST API | |
| Amazon Aurora | 33 | 32 -1 | 0 -33 | Amazon aurora works with web apps. It is a part of amazon relational database service | |
| Google Cloud Firestore | 36 | 35 -1 | 0 -36 | Cloud Firestore is a server-less NoSQL document database for your mobile, web, and IoT apps | |
| Netezza | 37 | 38 1 | 0 -37 | IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics apps | |
| H2 | 38 | 40 2 | 0 -38 | H2 is full of a supported RDBMS written in java and used as a database server | |
| Hive | 39 | 39 | 0 -39 | Suited for log processing, text mining, document indexing. Hive is used by Netflix, FINRA | |
| Interbase | 40 | 43 3 | 0 -40 | Interbase is used for tracking, disaster recovery, and data protection of web services | |
| Greenplum | 41 | 40 -1 | 0 -41 | Greenplum works on big data analytics like ai or IoT.It supports only Linux OS | |
| Google Cloud Datastore | 43 | 42 -1 | 0 -43 | Highly-scalable NoSQL database for acid transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and much more | |
| SAP HANA | 44 | 42 -2 | 0 -44 | SAP HANA is an in-memory database. Used in the advanced analytic real-time data processing | |
| Ehcache | 44 | 41 -3 | 0 -44 | Ehcache is a widely adopted java cache memory block storing serialized data objects | |
| Derby | 44 | 45 1 | 0 -44 | Apache derby embedded in java programs and used for online transaction processing | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | 44 | 47 3 | 0 -44 | Suited for big data analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, and other large scale analysis | |
| OrientDB | 45 | 46 1 | 0 -45 | OrientDB is incredibly fast, scalable with its multi-master replication | |
| Aerospike | 47 | 45 -2 | 0 -47 | Aerospike is a modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage | |
| Hazelcast | 47 | 47 | 0 -47 | Hazelcast memory data grid platform. It makes I/O and processing much more efficient | |
| Kdb+ | 48 | 50 2 | 0 -48 | Kdb+ is an embeddable, high-performance time-series DBMS. It supports almost all OS | |