⚡ Databases in the United Kingdom

Databases are used on websites to store and organize content, user account data, product details, and other important information, making it easy to retrieve when needed.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, database technologies are detected on 50.1% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top database technologies on websites in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 98.7% share.
It is followed by Redis with 7.8% and Memcached with 7.7%.

MySQL 98.7%
Redis 7.8%
Memcached 7.7%
Microsoft SQL Server 0.9%
PostgreSQL 0.2%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.1%
Supabase 0.07%
MongoDB 0.06%
SQLite 0.03%
Cloud Firestore 0.02%
CouchDB 0.02%
IndexedDB 0.01%
Amazon Neptune 0.004%
Neo4j 0.004%
IBM Db2 0.003%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Redis ^(-1)
7. Supabase ^(-2)
9. SQLite ^(-2)
11. CouchDB ^(-2)
13. Amazon Neptune ^(-3)
14. Neo4j ^(-3)
16. PouchDB ^(-5)

✨ Best Database Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 21 database technologies used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	98.7%
2	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	7.8%
3	Memcached An open-source event-based key-value store that keeps data in memory to deliver very low latency access and high throughput. FreeOpen source	7.7%
4	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	0.9%
5	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	0.2%
6	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.1%
7	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.07%
8	MongoDB New York, United States A NoSQL, collection-oriented, schema-free document database that supports deployment across cloud or on-premises. Free$0.08+/hour	0.06%
9	SQLite Charlotte, North Carolina, United States A lightweight open source cross-platform single-file SQL database engine with zero-configuration and serverless architecture. Free	0.03%
10	Cloud Firestore Mountain View, California, United States A scalable, enterprise-grade, JSON-compatible document database from Firebase and Google Cloud. Free tier$$$	0.02%
11	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	0.02%
12	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.01%
13	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	0.004%
14	Neo4j San Mateo, California, United States A high-performance NoSQL graph database built to leverage both data and its relationships. FreeOpen source$$$	0.004%
15	IBM Db2 Armonk, New York, United States A relational database management system designed to handle massive volumes of data. Free$99+/month	0.003%
16	PouchDB An open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that is designed to run well within the browser. FreeOpen source	0.003%
17	Cassandra Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database. FreeOpen source	0.003%
18	Amazon DynamoDB Seattle, Washington, United States A serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database service that supports key-value and document data models. Free tier$0.625+/million	0.003%
19	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%
20	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%
21	Bigtable Mountain View, California, United States A low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL and key-value database. $0.65+/node/hour	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 159,102 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 23 database technologies across the web.
Of these, 21 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on April 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.