⚡ Databases in Hong Kong

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.

Hong Kong is an East Asian special administrative region of China with a population of around 7.5 million people.

According to our statistics, database technologies are detected on 15.6% of websites from Hong Kong.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 97.8% share.
It is followed by Memcached with 10.8% and Redis with 10.5%.

MySQL 97.8%
Memcached 10.8%
Redis 10.5%
Microsoft SQL Server 1.1%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.7%
PostgreSQL 0.3%
MongoDB 0.2%
Cloud Firestore 0.1%
IBM Db2 0.1%
Cassandra 0.07%
Supabase 0.04%
SQLite 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Firebase Realtime Database ^(-1)
7. MongoDB ^(-1)
8. Cloud Firestore ^(-2)
9. IBM Db2 ^(-3)
10. Cassandra ^(-4)

✨ Best Database Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 12 database technologies used on sites from Hong Kong, 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	97.8%
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	10.8%
3	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	10.5%
4	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	1.1%
5	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.7%
6	PostgreSQL Toronto, Ontario, Canada A powerful open-source object-relational database system that extends SQL with features for storing structured, semi-structured and geometric data. FreeOpen source	0.3%
7	MongoDB New York, United States A NoSQL, collection-oriented, schema-free document database that supports deployment across cloud or on-premises. Free$0.08+/hour	0.2%
8	Cloud Firestore Mountain View, California, United States A scalable, enterprise-grade, JSON-compatible document database from Firebase and Google Cloud. Free tier$$$	0.1%
9	IBM Db2 Armonk, New York, United States A relational database management system designed to handle massive volumes of data. Free$99+/month	0.1%
10	Cassandra Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database. FreeOpen source	0.07%
11	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.04%
12	SQLite Charlotte, North Carolina, United States A lightweight open source cross-platform single-file SQL database engine with zero-configuration and serverless architecture. Free	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Databases in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,965 websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.