Database Migration Ranking - Year 2023

Users

11,895 unique users (by IP addresses) in January 2023:

Region % of Users
1 Asia Pacific 47.29
2 Europe 20.52
3 US and Canada 13.38
4 Latin America 9.64
5 Middle East 6.02
6 Africa 3.09

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 35.16
2 Microsoft SQL Server 31.38
3 MySQL 27.97
4 PostgreSQL 7.37
5 MariaDB 3.09
6 IBM DB2 2.16
7 Sybase ASE 0.82
8 Spark 0.71
9 Teradata 0.62
10 Sybase SQL Anywhere 0.49

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 38.92
2 MySQL 29.10
3 Microsoft SQL Server 28.98
4 PostgreSQL 6.72
5 MariaDB 3.00

Europe:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Oracle 31.46
2 MySQL 30.23
3 Microsoft SQL Server 29.91
4 PostgreSQL 8.52
5 MariaDB 5.00

US and Canada:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Oracle 38.34
2 Microsoft SQL Server 31.62
3 MySQL 21.81
4 PostgreSQL 6.98
5 IBM DB2 4.21

Latin America:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 38.01
2 Oracle 30.95
3 MySQL 24.32
4 PostgreSQL 8.11
5 MariaDB 2.53

Middle East:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 38.55
2 MySQL 29.47
3 Oracle 24.72
4 PostgreSQL 8.66
5 Teradata 2.37

Africa:

Source % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 42.51
2 MySQL 31.06
3 Oracle 21.53
4 PostgreSQL 6.81
5 MariaDB 2.72

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 32.19
2 Microsoft SQL Server 27.73
3 MySQL 22.75
4 Oracle 21.50
5 MariaDB 5.50
6 Spark 2.72
7 Snowflake 1.66
8 Google BigQuery 1.36
9 IBM DB2 1.34
10 Databricks 1.25

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 33.48
2 MySQL 25.53
3 Microsoft SQL Server 24.71
4 Oracle 20.71
5 MariaDB 6.99

Europe:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 34.86
2 Microsoft SQL Server 27.61
3 MySQL 21.67
4 Oracle 20.57
5 MariaDB 4.96

US and Canada:

Target % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 34.95
2 PostgreSQL 29.29
3 Oracle 20.49
4 MySQL 16.97
5 Snowflake 4.59

Latin America:

Target % of Users in Region
1 PostgreSQL 31.82
2 Microsoft SQL Server 30.43
3 Oracle 24.32
4 MySQL 17.61
5 MariaDB 5.49

Middle East:

Target % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server 33.38
2 Oracle 28.07
3 PostgreSQL 22.91
4 MySQL 21.79
5 MariaDB 3.35

Africa:

Target % of Users in Region
1 MySQL 30.25
2 PostgreSQL 26.70
3 Microsoft SQL Server 24.25
4 Oracle 21.80
5 MariaDB 3.81

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 14.62
2 Oracle PostgreSQL 10.93
3 MySQL PostgreSQL 10.32
4 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 10.31
5 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 10.09
6 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 9.94
7 Oracle MySQL 9.58
8 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 9.49
9 MySQL Oracle 7.41
10 PostgreSQL Oracle 2.80
11 Oracle MariaDB 2.61
12 PostgreSQL MySQL 2.22
13 PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server 2.19
14 Microsoft SQL Server MariaDB 1.69
15 MariaDB PostgreSQL 1.11
16 Oracle Spark 0.93
17 MariaDB Microsoft SQL Server 0.90
18 MySQL MariaDB 0.84
19 MariaDB Oracle 0.82
20 IBM DB2 Microsoft SQL Server 0.71

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 Microsoft SQL Server 13.16
2 Oracle PostgreSQL 13.12
3 Oracle MySQL 11.52
4 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 10.68
5 MySQL PostgreSQL 10.33

Europe:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 13.85
2 MySQL PostgreSQL 13.15
3 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 11.02
4 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 9.87
5 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 9.55

US and Canada:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 20.55
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 12.45
3 Oracle PostgreSQL 10.87
4 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 10.25
5 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 8.61

Latin America:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 18.13
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 14.56
3 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 13.16
4 MySQL PostgreSQL 10.37
5 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 9.76

Middle East:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 17.04
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 15.64
3 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 12.57
4 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 11.31
5 Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL 11.17

Africa:

Source Target % of Users in Region
1 Microsoft SQL Server MySQL 21.53
2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 13.62
3 MySQL PostgreSQL 12.53
4 MySQL Microsoft SQL Server 10.90
5 Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 9.54