Oracle Named Database of the Year, MongoDB Comes In Second (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Oracle's database management system has seen the biggest rise in terms of popularity in the past year. Oracle didn't only see a rise in the number of deployed instances, job offerings and mentions on LinkedIn profiles, but for the first time also became a popular topic on Twitter and a constant mention on StackOverflow, a popular Q&A support forum for developers. Second on DB-Engine's popularity list was MongoDB, which barely missed winning the DBMS of the Year award for the third time in a row.

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Re:Database of the year?

[phantomfive]

I was wondering that too, here is how it was measured:

General interest in the system (ie, Google trends)
Frequency of technical discussions about the system.(Stackoverflow + DBA Stack Exchange)
Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned (Job search engine Indeed and Simply Hired (I'd never heard of them))
Number of profiles in professional networks, in which the system is mentioned. (LinkedIn)
Relevance in social networks (Twitter)

They use a 'carefully tuned algorithm' to combine all those results, and get a number for each database. It really makes me wonder who in the world is using Oracle, because they are very, very far away from any company I've ever worked with.