⚡ Databases in Malaysia

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

Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our statistics, databases are detected on 51.2% of websites from Malaysia.

Statistics based on 11K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 98.8% share.
It is followed by Redis with 6.8% and Memcached with 6.1%.

MySQL 98.8%
Redis 6.8%
Memcached 6.1%
Microsoft SQL Server 0.6%
PostgreSQL 0.3%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.2%
Supabase 0.1%
MongoDB 0.07%
Cassandra 0.03%
Cloud Firestore 0.03%
IBM Db2 0.03%
IndexedDB 0.02%
SQLite 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

9. Cassandra ^(-7)
11. IBM Db2 ^(-2)

✨ Best Databases

Below is a more detailed list of 13 databases used on sites from Malaysia, 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	98.8%
2	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	6.8%
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	6.1%
4	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	0.6%
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	0.3%
6	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.2%
7	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.1%
8	MongoDB New York, United States A NoSQL, collection-oriented, schema-free document database that supports deployment across cloud or on-premises. Free$0.08+/hour	0.07%
9	Cassandra Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database. FreeOpen source	0.03%
10	Cloud Firestore Mountain View, California, United States A scalable, enterprise-grade, JSON-compatible document database from Firebase and Google Cloud. Free tier$$$	0.03%
11	IBM Db2 Armonk, New York, United States A relational database management system designed to handle massive volumes of data. Free$99+/month	0.03%
12	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.02%
13	SQLite Charlotte, North Carolina, United States A lightweight open-source cross-platform single-file SQL database engine with zero-configuration and serverless architecture. Free$$$	0.02%

👉 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 11,191 websites from Malaysia.
We currently track the presence of 24 databases across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Malaysia.
Statistics were last calculated on August 24, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.