⚡ Databases in Ghana

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.

Ghana is a West African country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our statistics, database technologies are detected on 58.8% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 713 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 98.6% share.
It is followed by Memcached with 2.1% and Redis with 2.1%.

MySQL 98.6%
Memcached 2.1%
Redis 2.1%
PostgreSQL 0.7%
Microsoft SQL Server 0.5%
Supabase 0.5%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.2%
MongoDB 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. PostgreSQL ^(-1)
6. Supabase ^(-3)

✨ Best Database Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 8 database technologies used on sites from Ghana, 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	98.6%
2	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	2.1%
3	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	2.1%
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	0.7%
5	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	0.5%
6	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.5%
7	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.2%
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	0.2%

👉 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 713 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 24 database technologies across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on May 16, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.