March 2024 DB‑Engines Ranking: Who’s Rising and Who’s Falling?

DB‑Engines released its March 2024 database popularity ranking update.

Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server experienced the largest score declines, with SQL Server down nearly 10% year‑over‑year, Oracle dropping 70.42 points and MySQL falling 56.59 points.

PostgreSQL, frequently compared with MySQL, achieved the highest score increase, gaining 7.54 points from the previous month and 67.64 points compared with the same month last year, leading all databases.

Trend analysis shows PostgreSQL entering a rapid growth phase since 2014, while MySQL has been slowly declining since 2016.

Snowflake, the 2021 “Database of the Year”, continued its upward momentum, moving from rank 15 to 14 with a score increase of 63.04 points, the second‑largest gain after PostgreSQL.

Below are visualizations of score trends for common databases:

Further score trend charts illustrate the dynamics of various database categories.

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 database management systems monthly based on five metrics:

Keyword search volume on Google and Bing.

Search volume from Google Trends.

Job search volume on Indeed.

Number of LinkedIn profiles mentioning the keyword.

Number of related questions and followers on Stack Overflow.

This analysis aims to provide database professionals with a reference for technology direction; the rankings do not reflect technical superiority or market share, and selecting a database should be driven by specific business requirements.