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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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 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%”
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”
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”
Microsoft Enters 2017 With 45 Offerings in Magic Quadrants
In Q1 2017, as always, we reset this chart – no bold or italic for new entries. As of January 20, no new MQs had yet been published in 2017 featuring Microsoft, so the picture below lays out a new picture for the year ahead. An addition or two late last year raise the totalContinue reading “Microsoft Enters 2017 With 45 Offerings in Magic Quadrants”
Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans
By Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker In the first post in this series , I looked at the size of revenue streams for RDBMS software and maintenance/support and noted that they amount to $33B, pointing out that pure play Hadoop vendors had a high hill to climb. (I didn’t say so specifically, but in 2014, Gartner estimates thatContinue reading “Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans”
Which SQL on Hadoop? Poll Still Says “Whatever” But DBMS Providers Gain
Since Nick Heudecker and I began our quarterly Hadoop webinars, we have asked our audiences what they expected to do about SQL several times, first in January 2014. With 164 respondents in that survey, 32% said “we’ll use what our existing BI tool provider gives us,” reflecting the fact that most adopters seem not to wantContinue reading “Which SQL on Hadoop? Poll Still Says “Whatever” But DBMS Providers Gain”