⚡ Databases in Tanzania

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.

Tanzania is an East African country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, database technologies are detected on 38.6% of websites from Tanzania.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MySQL, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 98.2% share.
It is followed by Memcached with 2.5% and Redis with 1.8%.

MySQL 98.2%
Memcached 2.5%
Redis 1.8%
PostgreSQL 1.1%
MongoDB 1.1%
Firebase Realtime Database 0.4%
Microsoft SQL Server 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. PostgreSQL ^(-1)
5. MongoDB ^(-3)

✨ Best Database Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 7 database technologies used on sites from Tanzania, 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	98.2%
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	2.5%
3	Redis San Francisco, California, United States A popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk. FreeOpen source$5+/month	1.8%
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	1.1%
5	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	1.1%
6	Firebase Realtime Database Mountain View, California, United States A NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google. Free tier$$$	0.4%
7	Microsoft SQL Server Redmond, Washington, United States A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Free$73+/core/month	0.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Databases in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 728 websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.