Database Vendors on Twitter, Slack, downloads, etc.

Posted on January 17, 2022 Updated on January 14, 2022

Each year we see some changes in the positioning of the most popular databases on the market. “The most popular” part of that sentence can be the most difficult to judge. There are lots and lots of different opinions on this and ways of judging them. There are various sites giving league tables, and even with those some people don’t agree with how they perform their rankings.

The following table contains links for some of the main Database engines including download pages, social media links, community support sites and to the documentation.

Database Vendor	Download Page	Cloud Service	Twitter	Slack/Discord	Stack Overflow	Documentation
Oracle	Download	Cloud Service	@OracleDatabase		Stack Overflow	Documentation
MySQL	Download	Cloud Service	@MySQL	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
Microsoft SQL Server	Download	Cloud Service	@SQLServer	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
PostgreSQL	Download	Lots of Vendors	@PostgreSQL	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
MongoDB	Download	Cloud Service	@MongoDB	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
Redis	Download	Cloud Service	@Redisinc	Discord	Stack Overflow	Documentation
IBM DB2	Download	Cloud Service	@Db2zLabNews		Stack Overflow	Documentation
Cassandra	Download	Lots of Vendors	@cassandra	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
MariaDB	Download	Cloud Service	@MariaDB	Slack	Stack Overflow	Documentation
Snowflake	N/A	Cloud Service	@SnowflakeDB		Stack Overflow	Documentation

One of the most common sites is DB-Engines, and another is TOPDB Top Database index. The images below show the current rankings/positions of the database vendors (in January 2022).

I’ve previously written about using the Python pytrends package to explore the relative importance of the different Database engines. The results from pytrends gives results based on number of searches etc in Google. Check out that Blog Post. I’ve rerun the same code for 2021, and the following gallery displays charts for each Database based on their popularity. This will allow you to see what countries are most popular for each Database and how that relates to the other databases. For these charts I’ve included Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, as these are the top 5 Databases from DB-Engines.