Gartner has published its DBMS market revenue number estimates for 2023. Hyperscalers still dominate the $100B chart, while Snowflake and MongoDB continue to shine.
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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.”
DBMS Market in 2023 – Transition Continues
My friend, Gartner analyst Adam Ronthal, has updated his famous “spaghetti chart” of DBMS market share for 2023, and as usual, even a quick inspection is very instructive. The leading 4 (AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and Google) held their positions. Some “hot” players are continuing to rise, while old stalwarts continue to hold on or dropContinue reading “DBMS Market in 2023 – Transition Continues”
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 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”