According to the source, the popularity is represented by the sum of of DBMSs, which are based on the following parameters:
website mentions;
search frequency;
technical discussion frequency;
current job offers;
professional network profiles;
social network relevance.
The source indicates that, according to their criteria, "when system A has twice as large a value in the DB-Engines Ranking as system B, then it is twice as popular when averaged over the individual evaluation criteria... [T]he popularity score is always a relative value, which should be interpreted in comparison with other systems only."
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Popularity distribution of database management systems worldwide 2023, by license
As of November 2023, commercial database management systems (DBMSs) are slightly less popular than open source DBMSs, however, both have accumulated similar amounts of ranking scores. The most popular DBMS in the world was Oracle, a commercial system; open source system MySQL and Microsoft SQL server, another commercial system, rounded out the top three.
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