⚡ Databases in Germany

Databases are software systems designed to store, organize, and retrieve data efficiently while maintaining consistency, durability, and reliable transaction handling across applications and services.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our statistics, databases are detected on 37.7% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 240K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top databases on websites in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 99% share.
It is followed by Redis with 4% and Memcached with 3.3%.

MySQL 99%
Redis 4%
Memcached 3.3%
PostgreSQL 0.4%
Microsoft SQL Server 0.3%
MongoDB 0.2%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.07%
SQLite 0.06%
Supabase 0.04%
CouchDB 0.04%
IndexedDB 0.03%
Cloud Firestore 0.02%
Neo4j 0.006%
IBM Db2 0.006%
Bigtable 0.004%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top databases that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Redis ^(-1)
4. PostgreSQL ^(-1)
6. MongoDB ^(-2)
8. SQLite ^(-4)
10. CouchDB ^(-4)
13. Neo4j ^(-5)
15. Bigtable ^(-4)

✨ Best Databases

Below is a more detailed list of 21 databases used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	MySQL Austin, Texas, United States An open-source relational database management system currently owned by Oracle. FreeOpen source$2,140+/year	99%
2	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	4%
3	Memcached San Francisco, California, United States An open-source event-based key-value store that keeps data in memory to deliver very low latency access and high throughput. FreeOpen source	3.3%
4	PostgreSQL Toronto, Ontario, Canada A powerful open-source object-relational database system that extends SQL with features for storing structured, semi-structured and geometric data. FreeOpen source	0.4%
5	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	0.3%
6	MongoDB New York, United States A NoSQL, collection-oriented, schema-free document database that supports deployment across cloud or on-premises. Free$0.08+/hour	0.2%
7	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.07%
8	SQLite Charlotte, North Carolina, United States A lightweight open source cross-platform single-file SQL database engine with zero-configuration and serverless architecture. Free	0.06%
9	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.04%
10	CouchDB Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data as JSON documents and exposes a RESTful HTTP API for application access. FreeOpen source	0.04%
11	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.03%
12	Cloud Firestore Mountain View, California, United States A scalable, enterprise-grade, JSON-compatible document database from Firebase and Google Cloud. Free tier$$$	0.02%
13	Neo4j San Mateo, California, United States A high-performance NoSQL graph database built to leverage both data and its relationships. FreeOpen source$$$	0.006%
14	IBM Db2 Armonk, New York, United States A relational database management system designed to handle massive volumes of data. Free$99+/month	0.006%
15	Bigtable Mountain View, California, United States A distributed NoSQL key-value and wide-column database designed for low-latency, high-throughput workloads at large scale. $0.65+/node/hour	0.004%
16	Cassandra Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database. FreeOpen source	0.003%
17	Couchbase San Jose, California, United States A distributed NoSQL database that was created in 2011 as a fork of CouchDB and designed for high-performance, scalable applications using JSON data. Free$$$	0.002%
18	Amazon Neptune Seattle, Washington, United States A serverless graph database engineered to scale for billions of relationships and deliver millisecond-latency queries. Free$0.093+/hour	0.002%
19	Amazon DynamoDB Seattle, Washington, United States A serverless, fully managed NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data models for applications requiring predictable low-latency performance at any scale. Free tier$0.625+/million	0.001%
20	ScyllaDB Sunnyvale, California, United States A real-time, distributed database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Free tier$2,800+/month	0.001%
21	RocksDB Menlo Park, California, United States An embeddable, persistent key-value store that is optimized for fast, low-latency storage, such as flash drives and high-speed disk drives. FreeOpen source	0.001%

👉 See Also

🌎 Databases in other countries

🗃️ 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 240,409 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 24 databases across the web.
Of these, 21 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on July 9, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.