2021 was a pivotal year in the DBMS market, as a I wrote in that year’s version of this analysis. Gartner has now published its revenue estimates for 2022, and the growth trends I discussed then have continued. DBMS market revenues passed $90B, an increase of over $11B over 2021. That is a significant decelerationContinue reading “DBMS 2022 Revenue Up 14%”
Author Archives: Merv Adrian
IBM and Ahana – A Lakehouse Down Payment
IBM has taken another open source technology provider into its portfolio, acquiring Ahana, one of the leading vendors behind the massively parallel distributed in-memory SQL query engine Presto. Presto, first created and still actively developed at Meta, has attracted a broad array of open source contributors, and is championed by several vendors. It has alsoContinue reading “IBM and Ahana – A Lakehouse Down Payment”
Savannah Rocks
Hot on the heels of a stellar Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, I drove to the lovely city of Savannah, Georgia to visit a friend and take time to decompress. This is a spectacular place, a jewel of the New South, with a beautiful and capacious port on the Savannah River that has been enlargedContinue reading “Savannah Rocks”
DBMS Market Transformation 2021: OSDBMS Advances
A very frequent topic of inquiries to the Gartner DBMS teams can be stated simply as: “should I consider an open source DBMS (OSDBMS)?” Users have asked about open source in 3.6% of the team’s inquiries over the past two years. Our usual answer is “yes, if it’s commercially supported and meets your requirements afterContinue reading “DBMS Market Transformation 2021: OSDBMS Advances”
DBMS Market Transformation 2021: The Big Picture
Gartner has published software market revenue numbers for 2021. Clients can find the report here. The string of growth for the DBMS market continued – and accelerated – as the market approached $80B, with an increase of $14,5B over 2020. That is an unprecedented 22.3% increase from a year that itself was up 19% over the priorContinue reading “DBMS Market Transformation 2021: The Big Picture”
DBMS Market Transformation 2021: One Big Nonrelational Leader
In the first post in this series I discussed the enormous growth of the DBMS market in the past 5 years, culminating in a 22.3% rise to nearly $80B in 2021. Then I looked at the nonrelational DBMS pureplay vendors (Aerospike, Couchbase, Datastax, Intersystems, Marklogic, MongoDB, Neo4j and Redis), noting their substantial contribution of $2.3B. Most (75%) of thisContinue reading “DBMS Market Transformation 2021: One Big Nonrelational Leader”
August 2020 Hadoop Apache Project Tracker
Welcome to my co-author, Gartner analyst Sanjeev Mohan It’s been an eventful 6 months since Merv published the last of these trackers. The Hadoop ecosystem is far from dead, as many pundits predicted. Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) has begun to ship in bare metal, public cloud and private cloud versions. MapR is now HP EzmeralContinue reading “August 2020 Hadoop Apache Project Tracker”
January 2020 Hadoop Apache Project Tracker
Until 2018, I published comparisons of the supported versions of components in the multiple available Hadoop distributions. Those older posts showed the ebb and flow of new additions to the typical stack supported by “most” distributors slowed to a halt after everyone (mostly) added Kafka. The relative version currency was fairly stable, with Hortonworks typicallyContinue reading “January 2020 Hadoop Apache Project Tracker”
There is Only One DBMS Market!
On 16-Jul-2019, Gartner published new research titled “There is Only One DBMS Market”, by Adam Ronthal, Donald Feinberg and Merv Adrian. This follows closely on last month’s declaration that “The Future of the DBMS Market Is Cloud” by the same authors. This is the second of two notes that aim to redefine how we cover this market. The firstContinue reading “There is Only One DBMS Market!”
The Future of Database Management Systems Is Cloud
On Friday, 20-June-2019, Gartner published new research titled “The Future of the DBMS Market Is Cloud” by Donald Feinberg, Merv Adrian and Adam Ronthal. The thesis: cloud is now the default platform for managing data. On-premises is the past, and only legacy compatibility or special requirements should keep you there. Some might think we are early;Continue reading “The Future of Database Management Systems Is Cloud”