State of Databases 2023 — Trends on databases, hosting providers, ORMs, and more

Hey Product Hunt 😸 I’m excited to share this year’s State of Databases report. The Basedash team created the State of Databases last year when we realized there was no definitive survey of database tech. This surprised us since databases power basically every app, and because there are so many great database products and related tooling released each year. It’s only our second time running the survey, so I’m excited to hear what you think. There’s a lot we improved based on the feedback we got on last year’s report. More specifically, we added a lot more tools and collected granular data around usage and favorability. We also compiled an app leaderboard that takes a number of ratings into account, rather than mere usage. Big thanks to partners Prisma, Timescale, Airplane, PlanetScale, SingleStore and Weaviate, who helped spread the word about this year’s survey. Some interesting stats from this year: - The vast majority of developers prefer SQL (54%) to NoSQL (6%) - Postgres (4.49) just barely inched out Planetscale (4.48) - Newcomer Drizzle (4.11) neck-and-neck with Prisma (4.06) Is there anything you were surprised about? Something you saw coming? And what can we improve for next year’s edition? I’d love to hear from you.

Always fun to look through the results. I like how this year's addition of the survey has individual tool pages, as well as the ability to compare two tools with each other!

The project, led by my colleagues @tomjohndesign and @maxmusing, is a work of art. Their execution and craftsmanship is outstanding. Take the comparison pages, for example. You want to compare Postgres with MySQL? There's a page for that: https://stateofdb.com/vs/postgre... In fact, there's 861 comparison pages in the "Database" category. (There's 42 databases in the survey, so to compare every one you need 42*41/2=861 comparisons (https://www.wolframalpha.com/inp...). And that's just in the "Databases" category. There's six categories in total here.

Filled out this survey last year as a developer and have since joined the Basedash team. The attention to detail on how the survey was built and how the results were statistically put together was next level. Super happy Basedash can give back to the dev community and showcase the tools/products that people actually use and love

Congrats on the launch! Exciting to see Planetscale and Drizzle climb so quickly.