Yes, while a lot of the buzz is for the likes of MongoDB and other “cool” NoSQL platforms, the top two database distributions—by far—are owned by Oracle. And they are both SQL-based.

For the second year running, DB-Engines ranked Oracle at the top, with MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server following extremely closely in second and third position.

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

"SQL has had a large lead over the non-relational alternatives for decades, but NoSQL is quickly closing the gap with popular databases such as MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra," the report stated.

The 2024 McKnight Consulting Group benchmark compared EDB Postgres AI with Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL in self-hosted environments. The results show a clear advantage for EDB Postgres AI ...