Database Migration Ranking - Year 2023

Users

103,869 unique users (by IP addresses) in January - December 2023:

Region % of Users
1 Asia Pacific 49.45
2 Europe 18.57
3 US and Canada 13.41
4 Latin America 10.09
5 Middle East 5.54
6 Africa 2.90

Top 10 Countries:

Country % of Users
1 India 25.14
2 United States 11.84
3 China 4.80
4 Brazil 4.14
5 South Korea 3.93
6 Indonesia 2.49
7 Vietnam 2.30
8 United Kingdom 2.04
9 Germany 2.04
10 Russia 2.00

Top 10 Source Databases

Source databases for migration (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations):

Source % of Users
1 Oracle 34.50
2 Microsoft SQL Server 33.47
3 MySQL 31.80
4 PostgreSQL 8.58
5 MariaDB 3.17
6 IBM DB2 1.94
7 Spark 0.78
8 Sybase ASE 0.73
9 Teradata 0.61
10 Sybase SQL Anywhere 0.59

Top 5 Source Databases by Region

Source databases for migration (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations).

Asia Pacific:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Oracle 38.36
2 MySQL 32.88
3 Microsoft SQL Server 31.52
4 PostgreSQL 8.48
5 MariaDB 3.13

Europe:

Source % of Users in Region
1 MySQL 32.49
2 Microsoft SQL Server 31.29
3 Oracle 29.26
4 PostgreSQL 10.07
5 MariaDB 4.77

US and Canada:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Oracle 39.26
2 Microsoft SQL Server 36.31
3 MySQL 26.73
4 PostgreSQL 7.94
5 IBM DB2 3.98

Latin America:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 38.13
2 MySQL 29.75
3 Oracle 28.63
4 PostgreSQL 7.98
5 MariaDB 2.71

Middle East:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 40.05
2 MySQL 32.31
3 Oracle 24.83
4 PostgreSQL 7.70
5 MariaDB 2.30

Africa:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 38.61
2 MySQL 38.48
3 Oracle 19.03
4 PostgreSQL 7.49
5 MariaDB 3.75

Top 10 Target Databases

Target databases for migration (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations):

Target % of Users
1 PostgreSQL 34.17
2 Microsoft SQL Server 28.38
3 MySQL 25.42
4 Oracle 22.18
5 MariaDB 5.17
6 Spark 2.98
7 Snowflake 1.81
8 IBM DB2 1.68
9 Databricks 1.68
10 Apache Hive 1.45

Top 5 Target Databases by Region

Target databases for migration (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations):

Asia Pacific:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 34.25
2 MySQL 29.68
3 Microsoft SQL Server 26.13
4 Oracle 22.47
5 MariaDB 5.83

Europe:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 39.34
2 Microsoft SQL Server 27.22
3 MySQL 20.00
4 Oracle 18.99
5 MariaDB 5.92

US and Canada:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 34.71
2 Microsoft SQL Server 34.23
3 Oracle 22.39
4 MySQL 20.40
5 Spark 5.13

Latin America:

Target % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 31.18
2 PostgreSQL 30.02
3 Oracle 23.00
4 MySQL 22.78
5 MariaDB 5.00

Middle East:

Target % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 34.03
2 Oracle 27.70
3 PostgreSQL 24.47
4 MySQL 22.12
5 MariaDB 3.63

Africa:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 29.83
2 Microsoft SQL Server 26.55
3 MySQL 26.02
4 Oracle 23.04
5 MariaDB 4.87

Top 20 Database Migrations

Database migrations (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations):

Source Target % of Users
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 13.89
2 MySQL PostgreSQL 11.95
3 Oracle PostgreSQL 11.73
4 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 11.30
5 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 11.29
6 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 11.15
7 Oracle MySQL 10.91
8 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 10.79
9 MySQL Oracle 8.57
10 PostgreSQL Oracle 2.96
11 PostgreSQL MySQL 2.94
12 PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server 2.50
13 Oracle MariaDB 2.13
14 Microsoft SQL Server MariaDB 1.76
15 MariaDB PostgreSQL 1.14
16 MySQL MariaDB 0.90
17 MariaDB Microsoft SQL Server 0.87
18 Oracle Spark 0.87
19 MariaDB Oracle 0.80
20 MySQL Spark 0.75

Top 5 Database Migrations by Region

Databases migrations (total % of users can exceed 100% as some users consider multiple migrations):

Asia Pacific:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle MySQL 14.15
2 Oracle PostgreSQL 13.50
3 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 13.16
4 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 12.31
5 MySQL PostgreSQL 11.90

Europe:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 MySQL PostgreSQL 15.27
2 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 12.73
3 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 12.22
4 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 10.63
5 Oracle PostgreSQL 10.15

US and Canada:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 19.75
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 13.52
3 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 13.46
4 Oracle PostgreSQL 13.37
5 MySQL PostgreSQL 9.85

Latin America:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 15.04
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 14.63
3 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 13.01
4 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 12.96
5 MySQL PostgreSQL 10.61

Middle East:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 17.37
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 17.08
3 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 13.27
4 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 12.64
5 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 10.78

Africa:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 16.54
2 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 15.64
3 MySQL PostgreSQL 13.95
4 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 13.23
5 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 9.78