2013-03-23

Relational Database Popularity Ranking

While planing and developing features for Flyway, I often wonder how the different relational databases supported by Flyway stack up in terms of popularity.

These are the results based on Google Analytics page view counts of the database-specific pages in the docs.

This is a very imprecise measure at best, so take it with a grain of salt.

Ranking based on the analytics data from 2013-01-01 until 2013-03-23:

  1. Oracle
  2. MySQL
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. SQL Server
  5. H2
  6. Google Cloud SQL
  7. DB2
  8. Hsql
  9. Derby
 Pie Chart

 

Three big eye-openers for me so far:

  • The Oracle dominance is even stronger than I thought
  • H2 is more popular than Hsql and Derby, combined
  • Google Cloud SQL is surprisingly well represented

 

What do you think? Does this match your experience?

 

Axel

About Axel Fontaine

I'm an entrepreneur, public speaker and software development expert based in Munich.

I'm the creator of Sprinters. Sprinters lets you run your GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper on your own AWS account with secure, ephemeral, high-performance, low-cost runners within the privacy of your own VPC.

I also created CloudCaptain, previously known as Boxfuse. CloudCaptain is a cloud deployment platform enabling small and medium size companies to focus on development, while it takes care of infrastructure and operations.

Back in 2010, I bootstrapped Flyway, and grew it into the world's most popular database migration tool. Starting late 2017, I expanded the project beyond its open-source roots into a highly profitable business, acquiring many of the world's largest companies and public institutions as customers. After two years of exponential growth, I sold the company to Redgate in 2019.

In the past I also spoke regularly at many large international conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone, JAX and more about a wide range of topics including modular monoliths, immutable infrastructure and continuous delivery. As part of this I received the JavaOne RockStar speaker award. As a recognition for my contributions to overall Java industry, Oracle awarded me the Java Champion title.

You can find me on 𝕏 as @axelfontaine and email me at axel@axelfontaine.com