What the Latest DB‑Engines Rankings Reveal About Oracle, MySQL, and Emerging Databases

In the past five months Oracle has faced major layoffs, including the removal of its China R&D center (affecting 1,500 jobs) and a Seattle cut of 300 staff.

The company's transformation has drawn attention, especially amid US‑China trade tensions, prompting many firms to consider the impact on database usage.

According to the DB‑Engines ranking for June, the top ten databases show little change in scores. Oracle rose modestly by 13.67 points, though its total score fell 12.04 points year‑over‑year; MySQL increased 4.67 points, down 10.06 points YoY; Microsoft SQL Server gained 15.57 points, up 0.03 points YoY.

The overall rankings remain stable compared with the previous month. The three leading databases—Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server—recorded the largest score increases, each surpassing a total of 1,000 points.

Microsoft SQL Server has shown steady and significant growth this year, while Oracle and MySQL, despite recent gains, still lag behind last year’s figures.

Two “rising stars,” PostgreSQL and MongoDB, maintained their positions but saw rare score declines of 2.27 and 4.17 points respectively, with total scores of 476.62 and 403.90.

PostgreSQL, which enjoyed ten consecutive months of score growth last year, still shows a clear upward trend compared with 2018.

Optimistic outlook remains for PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

PostgreSQL 12’s upcoming major release includes notable features such as improved B‑tree index performance, concurrent index rebuild, inline WITH queries, foreign‑key support for partitioned tables, SQL/JSON path queries, and an insertable table storage interface.

For the full DB‑Engines ranking and additional changes, visit https://db-engines.com/en/ranking.

The trend chart for the top ten shows clear growth for Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Below are the top‑10 rankings for various categories (images illustrate each list).

The leading cloud providers dominate the product count: Amazon has 8 products listed, Microsoft 8, Alibaba 3 (excluding OceanBase and PolarDB), and Google 6.

Amazon: 8 products listed;
Microsoft: 8 products listed;
Alibaba: 3 products listed (excluding OceanBase and PolarDB);
Google: 6 products listed;

These cloud‑centric vendors are reshaping data architectures, and cloud databases are expected to reconstruct the market as a service‑oriented offering, posing the greatest challenge to traditional commercial databases.