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Which Databases Are Most in Demand on Hacker News? (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)

The most-requested databases in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch and more, charted by share of postings since 2011.

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Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.Postgres6,303 postings · peak Aug 2021
  2. 2.Redis4,468 postings · peak Aug 2015
  3. 3.MySQL3,822 postings · peak Aug 2015
  4. 4.MongoDB2,628 postings · peak Aug 2015
  5. 5.Elasticsearch2,551 postings · peak Apr 2018
  6. 6.Cassandra963 postings · peak Aug 2015
  7. 7.DynamoDB503 postings · peak Nov 2020
tip: use | to OR several terms into one bar, e.g. backend|sre|devops
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Job postings

Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.

Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each one’s slice of the category’s postings, narrow the window, or click a month to read the postings behind the bar.

What the chart shows

The database demand chart captures three eras in one picture. MySQL leads the early years, the NoSQL wave lifts MongoDB to a real share in the mid-2010s, and Postgres steadily climbs to become the default relational choice teams reach for now. Redis rides alongside as the near-universal cache, while Elasticsearch, Cassandra and DynamoDB hold specialist slices. Read the relative bands to see the lead change hands era by era, and the sample postings to see which databases each stack pairs - Postgres with Python and Django, MongoDB with JavaScript, Redis with almost everything.

Popular Postgres postings (the category leader)

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Each skill on its own

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