🆚 MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL
- 📈 PostgreSQL is three times more popular than MongoDB.
- 🌎 PostgreSQL is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 MongoDB is more popular in Paraguay and Senegal.
MongoDB
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About
MongoDB is a NoSQL, collection-oriented, schema-free document database that supports deployment across cloud or on-premises.
It stores documents in BSON (
JSON-like) format, offers ACID multi-document transactions, powerful indexing (including geospatial and text), horizontal scalability via sharding, and high availability through replica sets.
PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a powerful open-source object-relational database system that extends SQL with features for storing structured, semi-structured and geometric data.
It supports ACID transactions, multiversion concurrency control (MVCC), advanced indexing types (GiST, GIN, BRIN), native JSON/JSONB with indexing, extensibility through custom types and functions, full-text search, foreign data wrappers, and geospatial queries via PostGIS.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Mexico in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Switzerland in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Canada in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belgium in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Databases category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Firebase Realtime Database
CouchDB
Cassandra
Amazon DynamoDB
Microsoft SQL Server
SQLite
Tarantool🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,367,089 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.