![]() The most popular are old standards such as Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as relative newcomers like MongoDB and Redis. According to DB-Engines, there are currently 373 different databases. In short, it’s hard to make accurate technology predictions, but here’s one you can bank on: The databases developers love today will be the ones that permeate enterprises 10 years from now.ĭevelopers have never had more options in databases. Even when developers move on, their employers don’t. As Gartner’s Merv Adrian once said, “The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia.” Hence, although it takes a long time to establish a new database, it takes even longer for a once-loved database to finally get dumped. Go back to 2017 and the headliners on this database love-in are largely the same, though SQL Server has fallen down the rankings since then, and Google’s Firebase has climbed up.ĭeveloper preferences in web frameworks may change relatively frequently, but databases are sticky. Just like last year (and 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016), Redis topped the charts as developers’ “most loved” database, followed closely by PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Just ask Oracle, which continues to rake in billions in database revenue despite being one of developers’ “most dreaded” databases, according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey of 72,517 developers. ![]()
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