By Lindsay Clark
Publication Date: 2026-04-21 14:45:00
It may look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner’s newly created DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 contains an important message. The change may be gradual, but (most) dominant database providers are slowly losing control of the market.
Author Adam Ronthal, vice president analyst at Gartner, pointed out: “Of the leading vendors in 2011 (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP), only Microsoft has increased its market share over the past 15 years. The others have ceded market share to Amazon, Google Cloud Platform and a handful of smaller but emerging vendors such as Snowflake, Databricks and MongoDB. There is no reason to believe that this trend will reverse any time soon.”
Gartner’s DBMS Market Share Ranks are a stacked revenue ranking. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra and other popular open source systems are not measured in themselves, but only as part of commercial services.
The market is stable at the top. AWS,…
