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 | December 2020 Dec 2020 | January 2020 Jan 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oracle is a popular database for enterprise and web. Used in Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, MIT | |
| MySQL | 2 | 2 | 2 | The world's most popular database for web. Used in WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | |
| MongoDB | 3 | 4 1 | 4 1 | MongodB is document-based leading NoSQL database. Used in Google, Facebook, Adobe | |
| PostgreSQL | 4 | 3 -1 | 3 -1 | Postgresql is an open-source object-relational database system. Used in Skype, CloudFlare | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | 5 | 5 | 5 | Microsoft SQL server is produced by Microsoft. Used in Enterprise applications, .NET, Bing | |
| SQLite | 7 | 8 1 | 7 | SQLite used in mobile phones (android device, iPhone, and ios device) and most computers | |
| IBM Db2 | 8 | 6 -2 | 9 1 | IBM db2® developed by IBM.Used in 3scale, XMLi5 Ltd., ITAIPU BINACIONAL, Applic8 | |
| Firebird | 9 | 12 3 | 20 11 | An open-source SQL relational database with stored procedures and triggers | |
| Cassandra | 9 | 7 -2 | 8 -1 | Popular use in large, active data sets. Used in eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit | |
| Redis | 10 | 9 -1 | 6 -4 | Redis is a non-relational, NoSQL database. It is a well-known caching solution that excels at it | |
| MariaDB | 11 | 14 3 | 12 1 | Open Source MySQL fork by original database devleoper. Notable users like Wikipedia, and Google | |
| Elasticsearch | 12 | 11 -1 | 13 1 | Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database used in-app search, site search, enterprise search, and metrics | |
| Microsoft Access | 13 | 13 | 15 2 | Popular database for enterprise applications. Used in the home or small business applications | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Database | 14 | 15 1 | 13 -1 | Microsoft Azure SQL database is a relational DBMS. Used in enterprise applications | |
| Teradata | 15 | 16 1 | 14 -1 | Teradata is best suitable for big data and IoT. Only supported by Linux OS | |
| Splunk | 16 | 14 -2 | 10 -6 | Splunk interacts with log data for the web. Used in AIRBUS, HYATT, CARNIVAL | |
| HBase | 17 | 17 | 14 -3 | HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It is used when data is in the form of a key-value pair | |
| FileMaker | 18 | 18 | 19 1 | Filemaker creates custom apps that manage contacts, invoices, projects, content, inventory | |
| Solr | 20 | 18 -2 | 17 -3 | Solr probably the database of choice when building a search platform for Web sites | |
| Informix | 21 | 22 1 | 21 | IBM Informix is developed by IBM. Suited for embedded data-management solutions | |
| dBASE | 22 | 19 -3 | 22 | dBase was one of the first databases. The up-to-date product is dBase plus | |
| Memcached | 22 | 21 -1 | 24 2 | Memcached works like "Redis" and used by Facebook to build data-intensive features | |
| Neo4j | 23 | 24 1 | 18 -5 | Neo4j is a graph-based database. Used in Hp, Walmart, Adobe, Volvo, Cisco | |
| InfluxDB | 24 | 25 1 | 36 12 | Influxdb is the open-source time-series database for web services. Used in the pipeline, eBay | |
| Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB | 24 | 27 3 | 23 -1 | Cosmos DB is JSON based database. It is scalable, multi-model database service | |
| Netezza | 26 | 23 -3 | 28 2 | IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics apps | |
| Couchbase | 27 | 29 2 | 26 -1 | One of the most popular database for the web. Used in Amadeus. LinkedIn, eBay, sky | |
| CouchDB | 29 | 28 -1 | 25 -4 | Couchdb uses HTTP requests to populate the database. It offers an easy-to-use API | |
| Firebase Realtime Database | 29 | 32 3 | 44 15 | Real-time database with data synchronization for web apps, Android, iOS, REST API | |
| Amazon Redshift | 30 | 28 -2 | 27 -3 | Amazon Redshift is an internet hosting service. It is the part of amazon web services | |
| Vertica | 31 | 30 -1 | 31 | Vertica is popular for web database services. Used by ATLAS, GUESS, AIRCEL, AVITO | |
| Spark SQL | 32 | 33 1 | 29 -3 | Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing system. It provides a high-level API | |
| Amazon DynamoDB | 33 | 34 1 | 32 -1 | NoSQL database service provided by Amazon. Used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| Hive | 34 | 31 -3 | 35 1 | Suited for log processing, text mining, document indexing. Hive is used by Netflix, FINRA | |
| Interbase | 34 | 33 -1 | 29 -5 | Interbase is used for tracking, disaster recovery, and data protection of web services | |
| Google BigQuery | 34 | 36 2 | 38 4 | Bigquery is Google's data warehouse. It requires only storage and not queries | |
| Ehcache | 35 | 37 2 | 40 5 | Ehcache is a widely adopted java cache memory block storing serialized data objects | |
| Greenplum | 37 | 38 1 | 34 -3 | Greenplum works on big data analytics like ai or IoT.It supports only Linux OS | |
| Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | 38 | 35 -3 | 30 -8 | Suited for big data analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, and other large scale analysis | |
| H2 | 39 | 40 1 | 43 4 | H2 is full of a supported RDBMS written in java and used as a database server | |
| Google Cloud Firestore | 39 | 42 3 | 47 8 | Cloud Firestore is a server-less NoSQL document database for your mobile, web, and IoT apps | |
| Amazon Aurora | 43 | 42 -1 | 32 -11 | Amazon aurora works with web apps. It is a part of amazon relational database service | |
| MarkLogic | 44 | 45 1 | 39 -5 | Marklogic works as a graph, or as relational data. It privileges with security administration | |
| OrientDB | 44 | 46 2 | 52 8 | OrientDB is incredibly fast, scalable with its multi-master replication | |
| Hazelcast | 45 | 44 -1 | 45 | Hazelcast memory data grid platform. It makes I/O and processing much more efficient | |
| SAP HANA | 46 | 46 | 37 -9 | SAP HANA is an in-memory database. Used in the advanced analytic real-time data processing | |
| Oracle Essbase | 48 | 47 -1 | 48 | Essbase is a multidimensional database while working on vast numbers of users, a large data set | |
| Microsoft Azure Search | 49 | 46 -3 | 34 -15 | Microsoft azure search is a search engine database for web and mobile app development | |
| Derby | 49 | 52 3 | 50 1 | Apache derby embedded in java programs and used for online transaction processing | |
| Sphinx | 50 | 50 | 57 7 | Sphinx is one the reliable text search server. It supports almost all types of OS | |