Most popular open source database management systems worldwide 2024

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Lionel Sujay Vailshery,
Jun 12, 2024

As of June 2024, the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS) in the world was MySQL, with a ranking score of 1061. Oracle was the most popular commercial DBMS at that time, with a ranking score of 1244.

Ranking of the most popular open source database management systems (DBMS) worldwide as of June 2024

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June 2024

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Worldwide

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June 2024

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the ranking is a broadly a measure of the following parameters:

  • website mentions;
  • search frequency;
  • technical discussion frequency;
  • current job offers;
  • professional network profiles;
  • social network relevance.
    The source indicates that, according to their criteria, "when system A has twice as large a value in the DB-Engines Ranking as system B, then it is twice as popular when averaged over the individual evaluation criteria... [T]he popularity score is always a relative value, which should be interpreted in comparison with other systems only."

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