DBMS (Global Market)

2023: Global DBMS market growth to $56.1 billion Leaders

Costs in the global database management systems (DMS) market in 2023 reached $56.1 billion. The industry is showing steady positive dynamics, and the key drivers are the rapid growth in the volume of information generated, the introduction of advanced technologies and the expansion of the cloud infrastructure. This is stated in a study by Market Research Future, the results of which were published in early November 2024.

The increase in the flow of created data is due to several reasons: this is the continuing development of e-commerce, social networks and high-tech industries, the rapid introduction of generative artificial intelligence services, the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, etc. In addition, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the active deployment of remote work and distance learning platforms began, the use of which is associated with the exchange of various information. All this creates the need for efficient and flexible data management solutions. Analysts of the Center for Strategic Development select several key trends in the global DBMS market.

Digital transformation

The ubiquity of mobile devices, the development of various types of cashless payments, as well as the transfer of all kinds of services to electronic format cause a rapid increase in the volume of data in need of storage and processing. This gives rise to the need to implement cost-effective DBMSs that can cope with heavy loads.

AI and machine learning

Training neural networks and large language models (LLMs) requires huge amounts of heterogeneous information. New concepts of using AI (including the widespread use of biometric systems and intelligent assistants in various fields) also create a demand for more effective data tools. Plus, there is a rapid introduction of generative AI in various areas.

Internet of Things

Connection to the Internet of various types of equipment (household appliances, transport) creates data that require analytical processing, including in real time, which stimulates long-term demand for appropriate software tools. Huge streams of information come from all kinds of IoT sensors, automation systems, robotic vehicles, video surveillance systems, etc.

Cloud

The use of cloud platforms reduces IT infrastructure costs and provides users with scalable access to computing resources without the need to invest in purchasing their own equipment. In addition, cloud environments increase the availability of data management solutions.

The Market Research Future study notes that the bulk of revenue in the global DBMS market is provided by large corporate customers: such organizations usually have different departments in their structure, and each of them has its own databases. From a geographical point of view, North America is leading: there is active digitalization, accompanied by the introduction of DBMS in many areas. Europe is in second place, while the Asia-Pacific region is showing the fastest growth rate. The list of leaders in the market under consideration includes:

• Huawei Technologies;
• Cockroach;
• Oracle;
• DataStax;
• Microsoft;
• MarkLogic;
• Neo Technologies SA;
• InterSystems;
• IBM.

The report said leading companies are investing heavily in research and development to expand the product mix and strengthen positions. Industry participants also take various strategic actions to strengthen their global presence: contract agreements, mergers and acquisitions, cooperation with other organizations, etc. One of the key business tactics in the context of a difficult macroeconomic situation and geopolitical tension is the expansion of local developments: this approach minimizes operating costs and improves the process of interaction with local customers.

In general, analysts say, the scope of DBMS covers a wide range of platforms designed to efficiently store, search and manage data in a wide variety of industries. DBMS applications cover a wide range of areas - from automating business operations and increasing customer engagement to supporting decision-making through data analytics in sectors such as finance, healthcare, retail, and public administration. For enterprises looking to optimize operations in the established environment, investments in cloud DBMS solutions promise economic efficiency and scalability, which is especially beneficial for small and medium-sized companies.

It is said that the nature of the DBMS market is dynamic, and rapid technological progress is constantly changing the landscape. Therefore, enterprises should take a flexible approach, keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of cloud technology, AI and cybersecurity in order to fully use the potential of DBMS innovation for business development. At the end of 2024, the costs in the market under consideration are estimated at $60.7 billion, and by 2032, it is expected to reach $105.4 billion.^[1][2]

2020: The volume of the global DBMS market grew by 11%, to $68 billion

The volume of the world database management systems (DMS) market at the end of 2020 grew by 11% - to $68 billion from $61 billion in 2019. This is evidenced by the data of SH Capital, released in November 2021. In their calculation, analysts reference IDC data .

According to experts, an avalanche-like increase in data requirements has become a key feature of the market. With an average growth of 25-30% per year in the volume of data collected, the number of transactions performed with data more than doubles annually.

The study notes that if earlier the universal way to solve performance-related problems was simply to add new servers, then by 2020 the amount of necessary hardware has become so large that it is already economically unprofitable, and in order to meet increasingly increasing client requirements and remain cost-effective, companies are starting to look for solutions based on the quality of software, and not on "hardware."

According to the founder and partner of SH Capital, Ilya Anikin, in the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, there was a tendency on the DBMS market to suspend the launch of new projects and reduce capital expenditures. Therefore, companies using cloud solutions are increasing their presence in the clouds. In view of this, growth was observed in the cloud segments of the DBMS market. Also, the pandemic spurred the growth of the segment of object DBMS, whose vendors have a strong position in healthcare, he added.

The study emphasizes the importance for the global DBMS market of Chinese developments. In particular, as analysts point out, in China, advances in the development and implementation of 5G, the use of artificial intelligence for the operation of networks, as well as the development of a hybrid and public cloud generate a growing amount of data that requires fast and efficient DBMS. Local DBMS manufacturers are gradually gaining fame outside of China. The most famous are SequoiaDB and TiDB, which belong to the relational DBMSs class, but there are also significant products in the NoSQL class, for example, Nebula Graph.

According to experts, more than 80% of the DBMS market falls on relational systems, and this segment is growing slightly less rapidly than the entire market. This is affected by inertia due to a significant amount achieved, and the relative success of assimilation of other types of DBMS relational DBMSs of developments, in particular, conditional support for other data models and partial elimination of the reasons that led to the emergence of these models.

The report also mentions the Russian market, one of the drivers of which is import substitution. Import substitution requirements prevent the use of full-fledged foreign DBaaS in Russia and create preferences in the domestic market for domestic products. At the same time, the assortment of DBaaS services of Russian cloud providers is not inferior to that of world services. The most famous DBMS created by immigrants from the Russian Federation are memSQL, Virtuozzo and Nitrosbase.

As in many segments of the IT market, DBMS created by Russian developers are among the best in the world. New solutions are emerging, improving and entering international markets already existing database management systems, says Ilya Anikin. - One of the most promising areas in which the market is developing today is the creation of a hyper-converged infrastructure, that is, a horizontally scalable software-defined infrastructure that combines the main data management services based on standard servers with drives.[3]

2019: Cloud DBMS Market Leaders in Q2

If you look at the latest Forrester Wave, dedicated to the cloud DBMS market, among the "leaders" and their "strong pursuers" are familiar all faces: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, SAP. With which, not without success, purely cloud vendors compete. There is also a place in the clouds for free DBMS (although, of course, their "free" is even more conditional than when placed in a corporate data center) - MongoDB, which was even able to become a leader according to Gartner, Redis ("pursuer") popular in Russia PostreSQL and some others.

Cloud DBMS Market Leaders, Q2, 2019

2018: 18.4% market growth to $46 billion - Gartner

In 2018, the global database management systems (DMS) market reached $46 billion, an increase of 18.4% compared to 2017, largely due to cloud projects. Such data at the end of June 2019 were published in the analytical company Gartner.

According to experts, the main contribution (about 68%) to this rise was made by cloud solutions, and among manufacturers Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) distinguished themselves, which accounted for 75.5% of market growth.

Cloud services pull the DBMS market

The study showed an increasing trend in the transition of DBMS to the cloud. It is expected that by 2022, approximately 75% of systems will be deployed or transferred to the cloud platform, and only 5% of solutions migrate in the opposite direction - from the cloud to the local infrastructure.

Experts associate this trend with the increasing popularity of the SaaS business model (software as a service), as well as the practical significance of using DBMS for analytical tasks. Gartner says customers are rolling out new applications and moving existing resources to the cloud at an exponentially increasing rate.

Companies are increasingly using cloud services for tasks related to analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, the data lake and information storage.

According to analysts, in some cases cloud services may be more expensive than traditional software, but the former provide the following undeniable advantages: eliminating the need for infrastructure management and the ability to scale processes more easily. In addition, most often the cloud is safer, added to Gartner.

Although in 2018 the costs of local DBMSs from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and other vendors increased, positive dynamics were achieved not due to new implementations, but due to forced software updates. Companies are forced to install new versions and additions to products to avoid risks, researchers say.

Most new DBMS projects are launched in the cloud. Under these conditions, infrastructure providers for cloud services and services that are based on it are becoming a new platform for data management.

Gartner analyst Adam Rontal says that almost all innovations in the database management systems market are developing in the cloud. Therefore, anyone who wants to take advantage of the latest developments should be present in this environment.

They [innovation] only appear in the cloud, or at least in the first place there. There are more and more innovations that will never be in a local environment, even if the manufacturer has local products, "Rontal said.

Cloud service providers are forming ecosystems around them, offering not only the services themselves, but also opportunities to organize interaction between them and with competing products.

In 2018, the volume of the global DBMS market amounted to $46 billion, which is 18.4% more than a year ago

In the category of local DBMS, the approach is different: here individual products often perform several tasks, but rarely offer built-in mechanisms for integrating with other software in a local environment.

All this suggests that the dominant position of the infrastructure of cloud providers, their own proposals and third-party solutions based on them is guaranteed, "said Donald Feinberg, vice president of research at Gartner.

The largest DBMS manufacturers in different years, data from Gartner

At the end of June 2019, Gartner released the results of a survey that showed that 81% of companies using public cloud services choose at least one supplier.^[4]

2017:

Gartner Magic Quadrant: DBMS Market Leaders

In November 2017, the analytical company Gartner presented the results of a study of the global database management systems (DMS) market. More precisely, the so-called operational DBMS (OPDBMS) were considered, which are focused on supporting a wide range of enterprise-wide transactional applications such as ERP, CRM, IoT, catalog and event management.

The leaders of the market in question at Gartner were named companies, Microsoft,,, and Oracle Amazon Web Services (AWS). SAP IBM Higher positions, judging by the "magic quadrant," have Microsoft, offering such flagship products as. SQL Server DBMS Azure SQL Database

Gartner Magic Quadrant in the DBMS Market

Microsoft's revenue from OPDBMS sales is growing faster than the market, experts said. The company received the highest praise from customers for overall experience, customer satisfaction, value for money, experience in negotiation, integration and project deployment, maintenance and support. 

Microsoft has upped its competitive edge by launching free Developer Edition of SQL Server and Database Migration Service tools to migrate SQL Server and Oracle databases to the Azure SQL Database environment.

Despite these SQL Server strengths, many enterprise customers still do not consider this DBMS suitable for critical applications, and a number of Microsoft customers are unhappy with the licensing scheme for this corporation product. Microsoft is finding it harder to retain and attract customers amid Microsoft Google and Amazon offering more attractive prices for their products.

Oracle's advantages in the market included the correct strategy for updating the cloud product portfolio, supporting compatibility with old solutions (three quarters of Oracle customers have been working with Oracle Database for more than 10 years) and high product satisfaction. 

Oracle experts considered licensing difficulties and problems related to customer support and the release of updates. To simplify the installation of fixes, the vendor began to release them once a quarter.

To attract customers to its cloud services, Oracle has increased the number of processor licenses required to run the company's software in competing cloud infrastructures. This approach actually doubled the cost of using Oracle products. In addition, the company has limited some features for Oracle Cloud and local engineering systems.

Speaking of IBM, Gartner analysts pointed to the rich functionality (including cloud and hybrid capabilities) that the company's OPDBMS products have, as well as the active use of popular open source solutions (Hadoop, Kafka, Parquet, Spark, etc.) and data backup and recovery functions in/out of Swift and AWS S3. IBM also benefits from the global presence of the corporation.

However, according to the study, IBM's revenue and share of the operating DBMS market has been declining for several years. A number of customers surveyed by Gartner cited difficulties with pricing and licensing.

According to analysts, IBM DB2 DBMS loses to competitors in a number of parameters

In addition, according to experts, the DB2 database loses to most competitors in terms of transaction processing speed, data loading (ingestion) and their automatic distribution. IBM did a lot of work to simplify the perception of the brand in the market (in particular, DB2 renamed Db2), but customers apparently did not see these changes or were indifferent to them.^[5]

The balance of power in the DBMS market may change dramatically - IDG

According to the IDG survey, 87% of IT managers in North America are trying to reduce database management costs, and 35% of them have implemented or are considering introducing an alternative to the products of well-known database providers. This was announced on September 20, 2017 by TmaxSoft.

The survey found that the vast majority of IT executives are trying to reduce significant database management costs, and many are not limiting search to traditional solutions. As a result, as noted by the developer of innovative software for enterprises TmaxSoft, the balance of power in the corporate database market may change greatly in the near future due to vendors offering a fundamentally different approach to database technologies, pricing and licensing.

Joshua Yulish CIO Many and IT executives are trying to focus all of their resources on digital transformation and tailor their companies to an era of cloud computing analytics-based forecasting and, said Joshua Yulish, president and chief executive of TmaxSoft's North American arm. Against internet of things this background, the high cost of managing traditional databases becomes the main problem.

It is difficult for customers to understand the confusing licensing and pricing conditions of these solutions. In addition, they often use outdated technologies, so their use leads to large costs of working time and money, "explained Joshua Yulish. - This distracts IT departments from the main challenge of innovation, and they are forced to maintain constant readiness to audit any software used, pay for infrastructure that cannot be used due to licensing restrictions, or spend time integrating new technologies into these databases. Not surprisingly, one in three IT managers are looking for an alternative to traditional databases.

According to the president of TmaxSoft, the necessary conditions for dramatic changes have already developed in the corporate database market: the dominant players are satisfied with the current situation and do not want to change anything, customers are on the needle for expensive and time-consuming solutions, and the dynamic technological landscape has changed customer priorities and technical capabilities of products. Thus, other players have a good chance to solve these problems with innovation.

About the study

The study of organizations' approach to database management was conducted TmaxSoft and IBM companies in partnership with IDG Research. The survey was attended by 119 heads of IT departments of North American companies from different industries and different turnover.

2014

Magic Quadrant - DBMS Market. Source: Gartner, 2014

2013

Magic Quadrant - DBMS Market. Source: Gartner, 2013

2012

DBMS for Data Warehousing

The market sector of DBMS suppliers for storage is represented by vendors supplying products for data storage and tools for the necessary operational management.

Within the framework of the Magic Quadrant study, DBMS refers to a software complex that implements support and management of a logical database or databases in the repository. Data warehouse DBMSs are the systems that? in addition to supporting a relational data model (supporting new structures and data types such as materialized views, XML, and content access through metadata), support data access for independent web applications, software, contain workload isolation mechanisms, and manage various end-user access parameters within a single database instance.

This market is specific to DBMSs used as a platform for data warehousing. It is important to note that the DBMS cannot be used as a data store. Rather, data stores are deployed on the DBMS platform. Data warehouse architecture often involves the use of different data constructs and repositories. Gartner emphasizes that the definition of this market is variable, and DBMS will eventually become only part of the overall definition of the market, as logical data warehouse (LDW) continues to grow, develop and implement.

A data store is a database in which two or more heterogeneous data sources can be combined into an integrated information management strategy over time. Its logical construction includes the flexibility to introduce additional disparate data without significantly changing the existing object representation. Currently, it is assumed that data warehouse DBMSs will help in coordinating virtualization strategies, as a distributed and/or computational approach, such as MapReduce, to process one aspect in a situation with large or extreme data.

Market size

In 2011, the realities and laws of a stagnating global economy became clearer, and participants in almost all markets began to make efforts to use the existing, and increasingly growing, volumes of data as means to increase business profitability.

In 2010, revenues in the relational DBMSs market increased by almost 10% compared to 2009 and reached $20.7 billion. Among the many different factors influencing the growth of the DBMS market, only one relates to the deployment of data warehouses that support analytics. Nevertheless, the combination of consumer-oriented data management systems, coupled with consumer-driven analytics, gives serious reason to believe that it was the deployment of data warehouses that was a significant factor in market growth in 2011.

Between September 2010 and November 2011, when the Gartner study was conducted, there was an increase in requests to create logical data warehouses from almost zero to about 15%. Gartner expects interest in a hybrid logical storage (LDW) environment to grow faster. However, the number of real implementations of fully deployed LDW (if any) on the market will be very small. And so it will be until the end of 2012.

Magic Quadrant - Storage DBMS Market. Source: Gartner, 2012

Top players

According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant, the market leaders DBMS for data storage are,, Teradata, Oracle/ IBM EMC Greenplum, and. Sybase Microsoft

Teradata

The company has a 30-year history in the data warehouse supply market, combined with prepared equipment and specialized analytics database software. Teradata has over 1,000 customer organizations worldwide.

Teradata products include data mining solutions, departmental solutions focused on data discovery, and enterprise solutions. Her portfolio includes cloud solutions and big data products. Aster Data has added new capabilities to Teradata's product line (such as MapReduce, unstructured data and graphical analysis).

SAP Sybase

In 2010, Sybase was acquired by SAP. The Gartner quadrant covers the SAP Sybase IQ DBMS, which became the first column DBMS. It is also the main data store of the SAP/Sybase DBMS. Sybase has thousands of Sybase IQ customers worldwide.

Oracle

Oracle offers a wide range of products that allow customers to choose when developing storage, use a certified configuration, or purchase a device ready to configure storage and load. In addition to DBMS and certified configurations, Oracle offers three proprietary Exadata products: Oracle Exadata X2-2 for data storage and mixed workloads, Oracle Exadata X2-8 for cloud solutions, and Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack X2-2 to increase storage capacity. Oracle reports more than 300,000 customers worldwide.

IBM

IBM offers both standalone DBMS solutions and storage devices. Currently, the IBM Smart Analytics System (ISAS) family and the Netezza brand are on the market. IBM Data Warehouse Software - InfoSphere Warehouse is available for Unix, Linux, Windows and z/OS. IBM has thousands of database clients worldwide and more than 500 clients per device (a combination of Netezza and ISAS).

EMC/Greenplum

Greenplum is part of EMC's Data Products division, which develops mass parallel architecture (MPP) DBMS datastores running on Linux and Unix. The product is implemented as a device or autonomous DBMS. The company has more than 400 customers in the world.

Microsoft

Microsoft continues to sell its SQL Server 2008 DBMS (Release 2) Business Data Warehouse and Fast Track Data Warehouse solutions to provide data storage for customers who do not need a massively parallel architecture DBMS. Microsoft released its own mass parallel architecture data storage ​​ustroystvo, SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (Microsoft), in November 2010.

Only 1010data was included in the applicants in this quadrant.

1010data

1010data was created 11 years ago as a provider of a managed data warehouse service with an integrated DBMS and a business intelligence (BI) solution for the financial sector. Recently, its solutions have been applied in the retail/consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector. 1010data can host its solutions using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model or support a managed solution at the customer's site. 1010data has about 200 customers.

Visionary Players Sector Represented by Vertica

Vertica

Vertica is a company within HP. It offers a fully integrated column DBMS with analytics functionality and a number of additional functions for ensuring high performance and availability. Growing out of research originally done at MIT, the company was acquired by HP. The deal closed in May 2011. Vertica has more than 500 direct and OEM customers. HP also offers a DBMS option as part of the device.

Niche members of the company's magic quadrant include: ParAccel, Kognito, SAND Technology, Infobright, Actian and Exasol.

Data warehousing becomes a central element for companies in information and analytics management, an indicator of their superiority in comparison with partners and competitors. Technical solutions remain popular, and more data warehouses are part of hardware implementations. However, the market has not yet determined the permissible threshold for these devices, and Gartner also points to their insufficient "flexibility."

In addition, the hardware market (even if all Teradata, Exadata, IBM/Netezza and other vendors are included in it), after 30 years of Teradata in the market, seven years of Netezza and three years of Oracle Exadata, still accounts for less than 15% of the delivered devices in the total data storage market. Given that most large data warehouses are undergoing major revision and modernization between 5 and 7 years of their life cycle, this period shows that in 2012 and 2013 there will probably be an increase in the number of implementations of this equipment.

2011

On December 21, IDC published the results of a survey of the data and database integration software market, Worldwide Semiannual Database and Data Integration Software Tracker, for the first half of 2011. The study covered more than 100 leading manufacturers from 49 countries.

According to Wilvin Chee, Assistant Vice President for Market Research software at IDC, the data and database integration software market is expected to grow, which in 2011 will be 11.6% compared to the same period last year, and in absolute terms the market volume will reach $35.5 billion. "While the relational database management software market is set to grow in line with the previous period, the largest growth will be seen in the Database Development and Management Tools (DDMT) market sector, where annual growth is expected to be over 300%," the report noted.

In the DDMT sector, strong growth in 2011 is demonstrated by countries such as Australia Austria, Belgium,, Brazil Canada,,,, China,, Czech Republic,, Finland,,, and Germany. In the India Norway Russia Sweden Switzerland USA development segment, significant DBMS growth Israel is additionally expected in Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Poland, Saudi Romania Arabia, Singapore and the UAE.

According to Carl Olofson, vice president of IDC, enterprises need to collect and process high-quality, reliable data to improve manageability in order to use it in decision-making systems. "This has led to major growth in the database management systems market, information quality, dynamic data movement and other software supporting development in basic data management (MDM), information management and enterprise data integration," the analyst noted.

During the first half of 2011, the top three vendors - Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft - significantly strengthened their positions. Of the total, the share increased by 2% compared to the previous year. In the first half of 2011, these three suppliers accounted for 75% of the global market. Among them, Oracle is ahead of the growth of the market as a whole by 22.4% compared to the same period last year.

Informatica, along with Oracle and HP, has improved revenue growth among top vendors. HP has been steadily growing above the market average over the past several half-months and for the first time in six months received revenues above $100 million. Informatica's share is steadily increasing amid double-digit revenue growth.

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