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 | April 2022 Apr 2022 | May 2021 May 2021 | ||
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Oracle | 5 | 3 -2 | 0 -5 | Oracle is a popular database for enterprise and web. Used in Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, MIT | |
MySQL | 6 | 5 -1 | 0 -6 | The world's most popular database for web. Used in WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | |
Microsoft Access | 7 | 10 3 | 0 -7 | Popular database for enterprise applications. Used in the home or small business applications | |
Microsoft SQL Server | 10 | 9 -1 | 0 -10 | Microsoft SQL server is produced by Microsoft. Used in Enterprise applications, .NET, Bing | |
MongoDB | 10 | 8 -2 | 0 -10 | MongodB is document-based leading NoSQL database. Used in Google, Facebook, Adobe | |
PostgreSQL | 11 | 9 -2 | 0 -11 | Postgresql is an open-source object-relational database system. Used in Skype, CloudFlare | |
Cassandra | 11 | 10 -1 | 0 -11 | Popular use in large, active data sets. Used in eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit | |
IBM Db2 | 13 | 12 -1 | 0 -13 | IBM db2® developed by IBM.Used in 3scale, XMLi5 Ltd., ITAIPU BINACIONAL, Applic8 | |
Redis | 14 | 11 -3 | 0 -14 | Redis is a non-relational, NoSQL database. It is a well-known caching solution that excels at it | |
SQLite | 15 | 12 -3 | 0 -15 | SQLite used in mobile phones (android device, iPhone, and ios device) and most computers | |
MariaDB | 15 | 12 -3 | 0 -15 | Open Source MySQL fork by original database devleoper. Notable users like Wikipedia, and Google | |
Elasticsearch | 17 | 15 -2 | 0 -17 | Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database used in-app search, site search, enterprise search, and metrics | |
Firebird | 18 | 15 -3 | 0 -18 | An open-source SQL relational database with stored procedures and triggers | |
FileMaker | 20 | 18 -2 | 0 -20 | Filemaker creates custom apps that manage contacts, invoices, projects, content, inventory | |
Teradata | 22 | 19 -3 | 0 -22 | Teradata is best suitable for big data and IoT. Only supported by Linux OS | |
Microsoft Azure SQL Database | 23 | 20 -3 | 0 -23 | Microsoft Azure SQL database is a relational DBMS. Used in enterprise applications | |
Splunk | 23 | 20 -3 | 0 -23 | Splunk interacts with log data for the web. Used in AIRBUS, HYATT, CARNIVAL | |
Neo4j | 24 | 21 -3 | 0 -24 | Neo4j is a graph-based database. Used in Hp, Walmart, Adobe, Volvo, Cisco | |
Solr | 25 | 22 -3 | 0 -25 | Solr probably the database of choice when building a search platform for Web sites | |
Amazon DynamoDB | 26 | 27 1 | 0 -26 | NoSQL database service provided by Amazon. Used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
HBase | 26 | 25 -1 | 0 -26 | HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It is used when data is in the form of a key-value pair | |
InfluxDB | 27 | 29 2 | 0 -27 | Influxdb is the open-source time-series database for web services. Used in the pipeline, eBay | |
dBASE | 27 | 27 | 0 -27 | dBase was one of the first databases. The up-to-date product is dBase plus | |
Spark SQL | 27 | 30 3 | 0 -27 | Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing system. It provides a high-level API | |
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB | 27 | 26 -1 | 0 -27 | Cosmos DB is JSON based database. It is scalable, multi-model database service | |
Informix | 28 | 27 -1 | 0 -28 | IBM Informix is developed by IBM. Suited for embedded data-management solutions | |
Vertica | 28 | 27 -1 | 0 -28 | Vertica is popular for web database services. Used by ATLAS, GUESS, AIRCEL, AVITO | |
Microsoft Azure Search | 29 | 32 3 | 0 -29 | Microsoft azure search is a search engine database for web and mobile app development | |
Memcached | 29 | 26 -3 | 0 -29 | Memcached works like "Redis" and used by Facebook to build data-intensive features | |
Couchbase | 30 | 29 -1 | 0 -30 | One of the most popular database for the web. Used in Amadeus. LinkedIn, eBay, sky | |
CouchDB | 32 | 33 1 | 0 -32 | Couchdb uses HTTP requests to populate the database. It offers an easy-to-use API | |
Amazon Redshift | 32 | 30 -2 | 0 -32 | Amazon Redshift is an internet hosting service. It is the part of amazon web services | |
Amazon Aurora | 33 | 35 2 | 0 -33 | Amazon aurora works with web apps. It is a part of amazon relational database service | |
Google Cloud Firestore | 34 | 37 3 | 0 -34 | Cloud Firestore is a server-less NoSQL document database for your mobile, web, and IoT apps | |
Google BigQuery | 34 | 35 1 | 0 -34 | Bigquery is Google's data warehouse. It requires only storage and not queries | |
Firebase Realtime Database | 35 | 34 -1 | 0 -35 | Real-time database with data synchronization for web apps, Android, iOS, REST API | |
Ehcache | 36 | 39 3 | 0 -36 | Ehcache is a widely adopted java cache memory block storing serialized data objects | |
Hive | 36 | 37 1 | 0 -36 | Suited for log processing, text mining, document indexing. Hive is used by Netflix, FINRA | |
Interbase | 37 | 39 2 | 0 -37 | Interbase is used for tracking, disaster recovery, and data protection of web services | |
SAP HANA | 37 | 39 2 | 0 -37 | SAP HANA is an in-memory database. Used in the advanced analytic real-time data processing | |
Aerospike | 41 | 44 3 | 0 -41 | Aerospike is a modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage | |
Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | 41 | 42 1 | 0 -41 | Suited for big data analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, and other large scale analysis | |
Google Cloud Datastore | 41 | 43 2 | 0 -41 | Highly-scalable NoSQL database for acid transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and much more | |
Hazelcast | 41 | 44 3 | 0 -41 | Hazelcast memory data grid platform. It makes I/O and processing much more efficient | |
Netezza | 43 | 40 -3 | 0 -43 | IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics apps | |
H2 | 43 | 42 -1 | 0 -43 | H2 is full of a supported RDBMS written in java and used as a database server | |
SAP Adaptive Server | 45 | 48 3 | 0 -45 | Sybase DB is primarily used for online transaction management on location and in the cloud | |
Greenplum | 46 | 44 -2 | 0 -46 | Greenplum works on big data analytics like ai or IoT.It supports only Linux OS | |
Oracle Essbase | 46 | 48 2 | 0 -46 | Essbase is a multidimensional database while working on vast numbers of users, a large data set | |
Datastax Enterprise | 48 | 51 3 | 0 -48 | Web database services. Used in Microsoft Azure, Google cloud platform, Amazon web services |