What Are the Most Popular Databases? The Latest DB-Engines Ranking Explained

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

Source: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

438 systems in ranking, September 2026
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Sep 2026	Aug 2026	Sep 2025			Sep 2026	Aug 2026	Sep 2025
1.	1.	1.	Oracle	Relational, Multi-model	1122.27	-1.17	-48.36
2.	2.	2.	MySQL	Relational, Multi-model	844.82	+2.50	-46.95
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft SQL Server	Relational, Multi-model	698.69	+4.13	-18.63
4.	4.	4.	PostgreSQL	Relational, Multi-model	683.26	-1.32	+26.08
5.	5.	5.	MongoDB	Document, Multi-model	381.31	-3.57	+0.81
6.	6.	6.	Snowflake	Relational	211.61	-4.28	+21.42
7.	7.	9.	Databricks	Multi-model	168.34	+2.53	+44.27
8.	8.	7.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model	158.06	+1.55	+12.89
9.	9.	8.	IBM Db2	Relational, Multi-model	110.57	-1.50	-13.61
10.	11.	11.	SQLite	Relational	97.05	+1.11	-10.83