SQL Server 2005 How long is it going to take?

Introduction

The high-end market for enterprise databases is dominated by Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and their respective locations have remained unchanged for several consecutive years. SQL Server 2005 is a new product for Microsoft to hit the high-end market for enterprise databases, and it has played a role in improving the performance and growth of Microsoft's market share. This article combines a set of survey data to analyze what the SQL Server 2005 has to do as an enterprise database.

Global Database Market Analysis

According to IDC report data, 2006 global database Market size reached 16.5 billion U.S. dollars. Although the current momentum of open source databases is unstoppable, in the global database market, the top three positions are always occupied by Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.

Oracle is still in the top spot. Oracle's sales in 2006 years were $7.3 billion, with sales growing at 14.7% per cent year-on-year. Oracle accounts for 44.4% of the market share.

IBM, by virtue of DB2, has increased sales by 11.9% in 2006 years, with sales of 3.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2006 and a market share of 21.2%.

The third place is still Microsoft's SQL Server. Although SQL Server has a total sales of $3.1 billion in 2006, the market share is 18.6%. But SQL Server sales rose to the highest year-on-year, at 25%, far exceeding Oracle and DB2 's year-on-year gains.

Compared to the 2004-2006 market share of the three largest enterprise databases is a change in the following figure:

Figure 1:2004-2006 Global relational DBMS software manufacturer profit and market share distribution

As can be seen from Figure 1, even though the top three rankings in 2004-2006 years did not change, but look at the database manufacturers in 2005-2006 years of their respective market share changes, you can see the clue. Oracle's market share grew by 0.1% in 2005-2006, while DB2 fell by 0.4%, while Microsoft's sq server's market share rose to 18.6% from 17% in 2005.