Gartner released the latest magic Quadrant report, and Microsoft took the lead in the database market (compiled from TechRepublic ),

Gartner released the latest magic Quadrant report, and Microsoft took the lead in the database market (compiled from TechRepublic ),

Gartner, a well-known research institution, released the latest 2015 magic quadrant Research Report on database management systems. The report shows that Microsoft, Oracle, and AWS are the three leading providers in the database market.

This report provides detailed analysis on well-known commercial and open source database vendors, including traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS), NoSQL databases, and memory databases. The deployment modes include License Software, public cloud, and hardware devices. Gartner mentioned that their database platforms all support transaction persistence, backup, recovery, and other features.

The database market is constantly evolving to meet increasing customer needs. The report covers more than 30 vendors, reflecting the popularity of the market.

Microsoft leads the market

Gartner put Microsoft ahead of Oracle in the leader's quadrant, because Microsoft has the most foresight and execution capabilities. This comment is attributed to Microsoft's recent investment in its data platform, including AzureDocumentDB, a cloud-based NoSQL-hosted database. In addition, the hybrid functionality that SQL Server can run in both the internal environment and the cloud also helped Microsoft to become the first. Gartner also highlighted Microsoft's vision of implementing memory computing for all its products, the implementation of hybrid cloud, and the "cloud-first" strategy, so it was listed above competitors in the magic quadrant.

Microsoft's latest financial report for first quarter of 2016 showed that its Smart cloud business revenue had increased by 8% to $5.9 billion. Where:

• Based on fixed exchange rates, the revenue of server products and cloud services increased by 13%, with double-digit growth in high-end products and services.

• Compared with last year, Microsoft cloud's Azure revenue and computing usage increased more than double

• Compared with last year, the number of mobile users of enterprises has doubled, the number of users has exceeded 20 thousand, and the installation base has increased by nearly six times.

The usage of big data has gradually increased

Several major big data analytics vendors entering the magic quadrant this time are Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, and existing customers of these big data architecture manufacturers promise to increase their investment.

For example, Gartner mentioned that most existing Cloudera customers intend to purchase more licenses, products, and functions in the next 12 months. Hortonworks enjoys a high market awareness among many enterprises, one Hortonworks customer claims that Hortonworks is the second largest database in terms of volume, ranking second in the number of transactions processed each day. MapR is also strengthening its cloud solutions and audit support through training and services.

What does this mean for enterprise IT?

Gartner claims that by 2017, the market-leading manufacturers of operational database management systems have integrated multi-data models, relational data models, and NoSQL data models into the same data platform. By 2018, after a series of actions such as enterprise merger, acquisition, and collapse, the market will be self-integrated. At the same time, Gartner predicts that by 2017, the term "NoSQL" will become increasingly unavailable because it will no longer differentiate database products. Several major data platforms unify the relational database engine and the NoSQL database engine.

Enterprise organizations are developing database strategies, including transaction systems, horizontally scalable databases, in-memory databases, and big data processing. Gartner has included traditional RDBMS, NoSQL, and Big Data vendors in the same report, which indicates that enterprises' data platforms are becoming more integrated. Because you can select the vendor and Deployment Solution, you can select the platform and deployment mode that meets your business needs.

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