Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains
The Top 5 vendors concede ground to the rest of the pack
I just returned from a week’s vacation, and the database industry has been relatively quiet except for this: Oracle dropped a notch in database revenue marketshare, ceding its former #2 position to AWS, according to Gartner.
Also: Microsoft ranked #1 in 2021, as it did the previous year. Google Cloud moved up into the #4 spot, displacing SAP. IBM dropped to #5.
So Gartner’s top 5 ranking by database revenue for 2021 looks like this:
Microsoft - 24.0%
AWS - 23.9%
Oracle - 20.6%
Google - 6.5%
IBM - 5.6%
As you can see, Microsoft and AWS are neck and neck at #1 and #2. You can read Gartner analyst Merv Adrian’s overview here.
The changes are not surprising. As I wrote in January,
“Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud are becoming the new center of gravity in the database market.”
Meanwhile, Oracle, IBM, and SAP each lost marketshare and slipped in the standing, in Gartner’s estimation.
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