2023 DBMS Revenues Show Shifts
The DBMS market, now over $100B - continues the shift to hyperscaler dominance, while Snowflake and MongoDB continue their rise in the top ten.| IT Market Strategy
The market for PostgreSQL DBMS offerings has heated up considerably in the last couple of years, especially as multiple solutions for optimization by leveraging cloud services have emerged. Recently I had the opportunity to talk to Apex Fintech, a provider of services for brokerage and wealth management about their use of Google Cloud AlloyDB. MostContinue reading "PostgreSQL In Financial Services: Apex Fintech and AlloyDB"| IT Market Strategy
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 significant changes Gartner made in their prior year revenue estimates, with a nod to some otherContinue reading "DBMS Revenues 2023 – Beyond the Top Ten"| IT Market Strategy
The DBMS market, now over $100B - continues the shift to hyperscaler dominance, while Snowflake and MongoDB continue their rise in the top ten.| IT Market Strategy
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 way towards the creation of a standard query language for graph DBMS. To put this in perspective, the ISO has created exactly one DBMS language standardContinue reading "True Disruption – The GQL Standard for Graph DBMS Arrives"| IT Market Strategy
The FOMO-based frenzy over GenAI is continuing, with investment activity, marketing blitzes, conferences, product announcements and more all off the charts. We’ve seen this “leap before you look” e…| IT Market Strategy
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…| IT Market Strategy
Joint analysis with Sanjeev Mohan of Gartner's recent research on Cloud DBMS.| IT Market Strategy
By Tony Baer, dbInsight and Merv Adrian, IT Market Strategy It’s been barely six months since IBM unveiled the new watsonx family of products targeting enterprise clients, AI builders, data scientists, and data professionals. And since May, IBM has generally released all three pillars of the new AI lifecycle stool: watsonx.ai for AI builders; watsonx.data,Continue reading "IBM and Watson 2.0: A Progress Report"| IT Market Strategy
IBM has taken another open source technology provider into its portfolio, acquiring Ahana, one of the leading vendors behind the massively parallel distributed in-memory SQL query engine Presto. Presto, first created and still actively developed at Meta, has attracted a broad array of open source contributors, and is championed by several vendors. It has alsoContinue reading "IBM and Ahana – A Lakehouse Down Payment"| IT Market Strategy
