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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...
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Symposium Notes – Day Four Returns to Data Security, and to Hadoop
Thursday, the final day, reinforced a theme for the week: data security is heating up, and organizations are not ready. It came up in half of today’s final 10 meetings. “Is my data more secure, or...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOpen – 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...
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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...
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Dive Deeper into Gartner’s 2023 Cloud DBMS Magic Quadrant: Key Takeaways and...
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...
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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,...
View ArticleTrue 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...
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DBMS Market 2023 – More Momentum Shifts
Gartner has published its DBMS market revenue number estimates for 2023, the culmination of a huge annual effort across all software categories. You can find Robin Schumacher’s report at...
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DBMS Revenues 2023 – Beyond the Top Ten
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...
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