[dba-SQLServer] DB-Engines list of top 10 databases

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 13:01:14 CST 2015


Did you look at the method of ranking......  Seems kind of bogus to
me. Not by number of installations. Not by number of records managed.
 No, its by the number of mentions on websites and the number of
google searches.

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Method of calculating the scores of the DB-Engines Ranking

The DB-Engines Ranking is a list of database management systems ranked
by their current popularity. We measure the popularity of a system by
using the following parameters:

Number of mentions of the system on websites, measured as number of
results in search engines queries. At the moment, we use Google and
Bing for this measurement. In order to count only relevant results, we
are searching for "<system name> database", e.g. "Oracle database".

General interest in the system. For this measurement, we use the
frequency of searches in Google Trends.

Frequency of technical discussions about the system. We use the number
of related questions and the number of interested users on the
well-known IT-related Q&A sites Stack Overflow and DBA Stack Exchange.

Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned. We use the
number of offers on the leading job search engines Indeed and Simply
Hired.

Number of profiles in professional networks, in which the system is
mentioned. We use the internationally most popular professional
network LinkedIn.

Relevance in social networks. We count the number of Twitter tweets,
in which the system is mentioned.

We calculate the popularity value of a system by standardizing and
averaging of the individual parameters. These mathematical
transformations are made in a way so that the distance of the
individual systems is preserved. That means, 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.

The DB-Engines Ranking does not measure the number of installations of
the systems, or their use within IT systems. It can be expected, that
an increase of the popularity of a system as measured by the
DB-Engines Ranking (e.g. in discussions or job offers) precedes a
corresponding broad use of the system by a certain time factor.
Because of this, the DB-Engines Ranking can act as an early indicator.


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Top 10 database management systems, ranked on popularity, Nov 2014.
> Source: DB-Engines <http://db-engines.com/en/ranking>* 1 *Oracle* 2 *MySQL*
> 3 *Microsoft SQL Server* 4 *PostgreSQL* 5 *MongoDB* 6 *IBM DB2* 7 *Microsoft
> Access* 8 *SQLite* 9 *Cassandra* 10 *Sybase ASE*
> A few things surprised me: that MySQL is ahead of SQL Server; that Mongo
> has become so popular so quickly, and that Access is still in the Top 10.
>
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