# The databases developers use most (Stack Overflow Survey 2024)

PostgreSQL stays in front, used by almost half of developers, ahead of MySQL and SQLite. The 20 most used databases in Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey, with the share of all respondents who worked with each over the past year.

- 12 votes · 20 items
- Sep 4, 2025 · Maria Eduarda S.
- https://even.best/en/l/5309/the-databases-developers-use-most-stack-overflow-survey-2024

## Top 20

1. **PostgreSQL** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — No. 1: used by 48.7% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
2. **Supabase** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — No. 15: used by 4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
3. **MySQL** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 2: used by 40.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
4. **SQLite** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 3: used by 33.1% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
5. **Microsoft SQL Server** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 4: used by 25.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
6. **MongoDB** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 5: used by 24.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
7. **Oracle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 9: used by 10.1% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
8. **H2** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 16: used by 3.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
9. **Redis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 6: used by 20% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
10. **MariaDB** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 7: used by 17.2% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
11. **Elasticsearch** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 8: used by 12.5% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
12. **DynamoDB** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 10: used by 7.9% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
13. **Firebase Realtime Database** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 11: used by 5.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
14. **Cloud Firestore** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 12: used by 5.4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
15. **BigQuery** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 13: used by 4.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
16. **Cosmos DB** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 17: used by 3.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
17. **Snowflake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 18: used by 2.6% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
18. **Cassandra** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 20: used by 2.4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
19. **Microsoft Access** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — No. 14: used by 4.2% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
20. **InfluxDB** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — No. 19: used by 2.5% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.

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