Snowflake won the 2021 annual database

DB-Engines According to the data of its website , announce Snowflake Won the “2021 Annual database ” The title of .

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In last year's DB-Engines In the rankings ,Snowflake Is running 383 The most popular database management system among the monitoring systems . therefore ,Snowflake Become 2021 The year of DBMS.

To determine the year DBMS,DB-Engines use 2022 year 1 The monthly popularity score is similar to 2021 year 1 The difference in monthly scores rather than percentage growth represents its popularity , This method is more friendly to the database with low popularity at the beginning of the year .

Based on this method ,DB-Engines To calculate the 2021 The three databases with the largest increase in annual popularity scores . let me put it another way , In this set of statistical methods ,DB-Engines Through these databases in 2021 Mid year job opportunities 、 The popularity of professional entries and online citations has increased .

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Best of the year DBMS：Snowflake

Snowflake The platform is a fully hosted cloud service , It integrates data warehouse 、 Data mart and data Lake , And support the analysis of these aspects .DB-Engines call ,Snowflake Not only the first to get “ year DB-Engines DBMS” Of the awards SaaS platform , It is also the first product centered on data warehouse to enter the top three of the Award .

Snowflake On 2014 Launched publicly in , And promote the data warehouse to a new level . With the support of multiple rounds of venture capital , It continues to expand platforms and services .2020 year 9 month ,Snowflake Officially listed , It is also by far the largest software IPO The listed company .

DB-Engines Tracked Snowflake since 2016 year 7 Popularity score since month , At that time, its initial popularity score was 0.35 branch , stay 2020 year 8 Month increased to 2.59 branch . The current score is 76.82 branch , stay 2021 During the year, the number of 61.29 branch . stay DB-Engines In the overall ranking of ,Snowflake stay 2021 Ranking at the beginning of the year 37, in the past 12 It has climbed in the past month 20 position , ranking 17, And this trend doesn't seem to be over .

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runner-up ：PostgreSQL

Three awards PostgreSQL This year is close behind .

PostgreSQL Won the title of annual database for three times , I didn't expect to encounter a rapid development this year Snowflake, Finally, it can only be ranked second .

PostgreSQL Is a very active open source product , The frequency of adding new features and improving functions is very high .PostgreSQL 14 On 2021 year 9 Published in , It brings many enhancements , For example, stored procedures 、SQL The standard SEARCH and CYCLE Options 、 Subscript of additional data type 、 Types with discontinuous data ranges, etc , And performance improvements .

Although it is related to DB-Engines The top three in the popularity ranking DBMS —— Oracle、MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server There is still a big gap , But this gap is narrowing . for example , In the past 12 Months ,Oracle and PostgreSQL The score gap between has been reduced by about 14%, from 771 Minutes reduced to 660 branch .

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The bronze ：MongoDB

MongoDB It further expands its position as the most popular NoSQL The status of the system , Far ahead . In a specific ranking of document storage ,MongoDB Score more than all others DBMS The sum of more .

However ,MongoDB The era of high-performance document storage is over . It has been expanding its range of functions , For example, support for time series , Or provide automatic re slicing function in its latest version .

Besides , Except for the community version ,MongoDB The company also provides a more advanced enterprise version , And pass MongoDB Atlas Provide hosting services , To meet all types of user needs .

Congratulations Snowflake、PostgreSQL and MongoDB stay 2021 Success in the middle of the year .

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