DBMS Legacies are Very Sticky
Donald Feinberg (@Brazingo) & Merv Adrian (@merv) Every so often, there’s a wave of interest in the “imminent retirement” of one or more legacy database management systems (DBMS). Usually, it’s...
View ArticleDBMS 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...
View ArticleDive 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...
View ArticleDBMS 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...
View ArticleDBMS 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...
View ArticleDBMS 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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