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2025 Database Systems Survey

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We'll analyze responses and publish the findings in our upcoming Database Systems Trend Report, scheduled for release this November. Thank you for your participation!

 
1. What DBMS types have you worked with? Select all that apply.
2. How often do you write SQL manually?
3. How often do you use SQL and Python together in the same workflow?
What are your primary use cases for combining Python and SQL? Select all that apply.
4. Which query and interaction languages do you use? Select all that apply.
5. What factors most influence your choice of data processing architecture? Select all that apply.
6. Why is your organization migrating, or considering migrating, its databases to the cloud? Select all that apply.
7. Which of the following distributed database architectures has your organization adopted? Select all that apply.
8. How important is multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud portability for your organization’s databases?
9. In your opinion, what was, or would be, most challenging with migrating to a cloud DBMS? Select all that apply.
10. Which of the following tools does your organization use for data observability? Select all that apply.
11. Which of the following types of database metrics do you find most important to monitor? Select all that apply.
12. What strategies does your organization use to ensure database high availability and fault tolerance? Select all that apply.
13. How often do you manually manage indexes in any production DBMS?
14. Throughout your career, how often have you used object-relational mappers (ORMs)?
15. Over the past year, how often have you used object-relational mappers (ORMs)?
16. Where does your organization currently store its data and/or database solutions?
17. What strategies or tools does your organization use to manage data duplication, fragmentation, or sprawl in its data architecture? Select all that apply.
18. Which of the following challenges related to data sprawl have you encountered in your current or past projects? Select all that apply.
19. What strategies and/or architectural considerations do you regularly examine for ensuring data security in the software you currently contribute to? Select all that apply.
20. Which of the following security concerns from the OWASP Data Security Top 10 do you believe to be significant potential threats to software you currently contribute to? Select all that apply.
21. How do you currently supply data or context to support generative or agentic AI applications? Select all that apply.
22. Which of the following practices do you use to ensure data quality when preparing datasets for AI or ML models? Select all that apply.
23. How confident are you in your understanding of best practices for preparing clean, high-quality data for AI/ML systems?
24. How important are real-time analytics for your organization's operations?
25. Where is your organization in its adoption of real-time analytics?
26. Which emerging database paradigms is your organization exploring? Select all that apply.

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27. What types of software are you currently developing? Select all that apply.
28. What programming language ecosystems does your company use? Select all that apply.
29. What is your primary programming language at work?
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32. What is the size of your organization in terms of employees? *This question is required.
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