TIOBE Programming Index News June 2025: SQL Falls to Record Low Popularity
Based on the June 2025 TIOBE Programming Community Index, SQL has faded in popularity as people working in the field of AI switch to NoSQL databases.
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Join For FreeThe programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest position since the rankings began in 2001. Although SQL remains a critical language for working with databases, the increased use of NoSQL databases for AI applications has begun to take its market share.
The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows trends in programming languages based on search engine volume.
SQL Doesn't Fit For AI Databases
“SQL will remain the backbone and lingua franca of databases for decades to come,” said TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen in the TIOBE Index. “However, in the booming field of AI, where data is usually unstructured, NoSQL databases are often a better fit.”
NoSQL, with its data interchange formats such as JSON and XML, is less static than SQL, he said.
SQL’s popularity has been in decline since February. It had 1.9% in TIOBE Software’s proprietary points system in May and 1.55% in June.
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