DB-Engines has updated its rating of DBMS popularity, which tracks the popularity of 428 systems. The methodology for calculating the DBMS rating is reminiscent of the TIOBE rating of programming languages and takes into account the popularity of queries in search engines, the number of results in search results, the volume of discussions on popular discussion platforms and social networks, the number of vacancies in recruitment agencies and mentions in user profiles.
Like a year ago, the first five places continue to be occupied by Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Compared to January 2025, there were two changes in the top ten: Elasticsearch dropped from 8th to 10th place, and Databricks rose from 13th to 8th place. The remaining leaders retained their positions in the ranking, but a decrease in popularity was observed for MySQL (-130 points), MS SQL Server (-92), Elasticsearch (-27), MongoDB (-25), Oracle (-21) and Redis (-9). An increase in popularity is recorded for Snowflake (+53), Databricks (+53) and PostgreSQL (+3).
If we consider DBMSs not among the top ten, then over the year MariaDB (14 → 13), Splunk (15 → 14), Microsoft Azure SQL (16 → 15), Apache Hive (18 → 16), Apache increased their positions in the ranking Solr (24 → 21), PostGIS (29 → 27), OpenSearch (33 → 31), DuckDB (55 → 42), Prometheus (52 → 46), TimescaleDB (75 → 63).
Downgraded the positions of SQLite storage (10 → 11), Microsoft Access (12 → 17), Amazon DynamoDB (17 → 18), FileMaker (21 → 24), InfluxDB (28 → 29), Apache HBase (26 → 32), Memcached (34 → 35), Informix (36 → 38), Couchbase (35 → 41), etcd (47 → 50), Greenplum (46 → 57), CouchDB (45 → 60).
