In my last post, I described the changes at the top of the $103.2B revenue DBMS market, with trends we have watched as they evolved and matured over the past few years. As in that post, I will note significant changes Gartner made in their prior year revenue estimates, with a nod to some otherContinue reading “DBMS Revenues 2023 – Beyond the Top Ten”
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DBMS Market 2023 – More Momentum Shifts
Gartner has published its DBMS market revenue number estimates for 2023. Hyperscalers still dominate the $100B chart, while Snowflake and MongoDB continue to shine.
True Disruption – The GQL Standard for Graph DBMS Arrives
For years now, I’ve been watching the excruciatingly slow process of ISO language standard development as a number of academicians, national standards bodies, scientists and DBMS firms inched their way towards the creation of a standard query language for graph DBMS. To put this in perspective, the ISO has created exactly one DBMS language standardContinue reading “True Disruption – The GQL Standard for Graph DBMS Arrives”
Think You’re Ready for Generative AI? Think Again.
The FOMO-based frenzy over GenAI is continuing, with investment activity, marketing blitzes, conferences, product announcements and more all off the charts. We’ve seen this “leap before you look” excitement lead to bad outcomes so many times. Maybe this time around, we can get a bit of perspective, and have a plan, before the spending andContinue reading “Think You’re Ready for Generative AI? Think Again.”
Dive Deeper into Gartner’s 2023 Cloud DBMS Magic Quadrant: Key Takeaways and Beyond
I recently collaborated with my colleague Sanjeev Mohan on our first joint written piece since leaving Gartner. We picked a favorite topic – Database Management Systems. These are our views, and should not be construed as Gartner’s position. Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, published in December 2023 based on vendor evaluationsContinue reading “Dive Deeper into Gartner’s 2023 Cloud DBMS Magic Quadrant: Key Takeaways and Beyond”
DBMS 2022 Revenue Up 14%
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%”
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”
Open – For Business – At the ASF
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every passing year. After three Gartner Data and Analytics events on 3 continents with thousands of attendees in the past 4 weeks, I find myself more impressedContinue reading “Open – For Business – At the ASF”
The Era of Microsoft on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG
Written by Donald Feinberg and Merv Adrian On 25-Sep-2017 at Ignite, Microsoft announced general availability of SQL Server 2017, now supporting both Windows and Linux platforms, as well as support for containers. It can now book revenue for a product already widely used by early release customers. What does this imply for the $34.4 billion database management system (DBMS) Market? Over theContinue reading “The Era of Microsoft on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG”
Symposium Notes – Day Three Features Data Assembly
With 24 meetings under my belt from the first two days at Orlando Symposium, Wednesday’s 13 (and a presentation) didn’t look quite as daunting. It began well, with enough time for a muffin and some tea at 730 AM in the analyst workroom near to the cubicle I’d spend the day in. Then I launched rightContinue reading “Symposium Notes – Day Three Features Data Assembly”