PostgreSQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 417 monitored systems. We thus declare PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2023 ..read more

In the overall architecture, a new "hyper-convergence" concept was proposed, which integrated multiple engines and capabilities to meet the increasingly complex mixed load scenarios and business needs of mixed data type for enterprises. At the mean time, to support subscribers’ increasingly demanding requirements, through the cloud-native "streaming processing engine", streaming computing and database are integrated and innovated from the kernel level, meeting the needs of real-time business analysis, real-time reporting and other types of asynchronous transaction scenarios such as Internet ..read more

We have added Vector DBMSs as a new DBMS category ..read more

Snowflake is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 402 monitored systems. We thus declare Snowflake as the DBMS of the Year 2022 ..read more

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm enables developers to use existing code from programming languages, such as C, C++ and Rust as part of their application development process. However, Wasm is not just for the web, and today is moving in exciting new directions. For example, one use-case would be to run Wasm code in a database system on the data already stored in the database system — an example of co-locating computation with data. Using Wasm to extend the capabilities of a database system opens up opportunities to develop many new appli ..read more

DB-Engines.com was launched ten year ago. Quite a few things have changed since then in our portal and in the DBMS industry ..read more

The advent of cloud computing has provided the means to develop a wide range of new products and services. We can build and run applications and perform analytics in the cloud without installing local software. This article will look at two examples of modern systems that can seamlessly integrate with SingleStoreDB for in-cloud analytics: Apache Spark™️ and MindsDB. The notebook file used in this article is available on GitHub ..read more

Hard real-time does not mean real fast.  Database and software vendors have been using the term real-time synonymously with instant or live for years, but for mission- and safety-critical systems it means something else entirely ..read more

We show how the most popular DMBS in the DB-Engines Ranking evolved in the last 10 years in form of a bar chart race ..read more

Despite predictions of the imminent demise of relational technology over the past few decades, relational technology is as strong today as it has ever been. Savvy relational vendors have added new capabilities, extending their products to meet new requirements. Enter the era of multi-model database systems that provide business and technical benefits. SingleStore is in the vanguard of multi-model, distributed relational database systems. We'll discuss some of its capabilities in this article ..read more