October 2023 DB‑Engines Ranking: Top 10 Databases & Emerging Trends
The October DB‑Engines popularity ranking shows the same top‑10 databases as September, highlights score gains for MySQL and PostgreSQL, notes a year‑over‑year decline for the three leading systems, and reveals Snowflake’s rise into the top‑20, all based on five key popularity indicators.
DB‑Engines has updated its October popularity ranking, based on September’s overall data changes.
The top‑10 databases remain unchanged from the previous month: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, IBM Db2, Elasticsearch, SQLite and Cassandra. MySQL and PostgreSQL showed notable score increases of 7.24 and 9.47 points respectively.
The three leading databases all experienced a significant year‑over‑year score decline, continuing a downward trend for the traditional “big three.”
Snowflake also improved, gaining 6.19 points and moving from rank 21 to rank 18, entering the top 20.
Score‑trend chart for the top‑10 databases:
Relational Databases – Top 10
Key‑Value Databases – Top 10
Document Databases – Top 10
Time‑Series Databases – Top 10
Graph Databases – Top 10
DB‑Engines ranks DBMS popularity monthly using five indicators:
Keyword search volume on Google and Bing.
Search volume on Google Trends.
Job postings on Indeed.
Number of LinkedIn profiles mentioning the keyword.
Number of related questions and followers on Stack Overflow.
This analysis provides database professionals with a reference for technology direction; the rankings do not reflect technical superiority or market share. Selecting the right technology for specific business needs remains the most important consideration.
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