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Databases

DatabasesAll Respondents · n = 12,061All RespondentsDatabasesPostgreSQLSQLiteMySQLRedisMicrosoft SQL ServerMariaDBMongoDBElasticsearch0%10%20%30%40%50%60%20182019202020212022202320242025202612,061Top 8 shownData licensed under Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
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Which database environments have you done extensive development work in over the past year? Which do you want to work in over the next year? If you worked with the database and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.
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PostgreSQLSQLiteMySQLRedisMicrosoft SQL ServerMariaDBMongoDBElasticsearchOracleBigQueryCosmos DBNeo4JCassandraIBM DB2DynamodbFirebase Realtime DatabaseCloud FirestoreSupabaseDuckDBH2SnowflakeMicrosoft AccessInfluxDBClickhouseCockroachdbDatomicDatabricks SQLValkeyAmazon RedshiftPocketbase
201832.9%19.7%58.7%18.0%41.2%13.4%25.9%14.1%11.1%2.1%7.9%2.4%3.7%2.5%
201934.3%31.6%54.0%18.6%32.8%16.5%25.5%14.3%16.5%3.5%6.2%12.8%
202036.1%31.2%55.6%18.3%33.0%16.8%26.4%13.8%16.5%3.3%2.9%7.1%
202140.4%32.2%50.2%20.7%26.9%17.2%27.7%13.3%12.6%2.7%2.0%7.3%
202243.6%32.0%46.9%22.1%26.9%17.9%28.3%12.2%11.5%2.1%2.7%2.0%8.3%8.7%7.5%
202345.6%30.9%41.1%20.4%25.5%17.6%25.5%13.4%9.8%4.5%3.5%1.9%2.5%1.9%8.9%6.4%6.4%2.8%0.6%3.7%2.4%4.3%2.7%1.1%1.0%0.3%
202448.7%33.1%40.3%20.0%25.3%17.2%24.8%12.5%10.1%4.8%3.3%1.9%2.4%1.7%7.9%5.8%5.4%4.0%1.4%3.8%2.6%4.2%2.5%1.7%1.0%0.4%1.9%
202555.6%37.5%40.5%28.0%30.1%22.5%24.0%16.7%10.6%6.5%4.6%2.7%2.9%2.4%9.8%5.0%5.7%6.0%3.3%5.0%4.1%4.8%3.7%2.4%1.0%0.6%3.4%2.4%2.3%1.0%
202657.9%42.1%35.1%28.3%27.1%20.3%19.0%14.8%9.4%6.7%4.3%2.8%2.5%2.2%9.3%4.2%4.8%7.7%5.7%4.7%4.5%4.0%3.6%3.6%1.0%0.5%4.2%5.0%2.2%1.1%

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