Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
This Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors that supply fully managed cloud DBMS services (dbPaaS offerings) for some or all operational and analytical use cases. 2020 was the first year that Gartner combined the assessment of vendors offering analytical DBMS and vendors offering operational DBMS, reflecting market convergence with vendors providing solutions for both types. The evaluation of vendors in the Magic Quadrant is relative, not absolute - typically all vendors advance from year to year, and positions reflect relative advancement. The overall DBMS market saw strong growth of 14.4% in 2022 to reach $91 billion, with cloud database platform as a service share reaching 55% of the overall 2022 market. For 2022, 98% of overall DBMS market growth came from dbPaaS.
A: We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor. Gartner methodology restricts the Magic Quadrant to 20 vendors. Noninclusion due to the Customer Interest Index should not be seen to reflect negatively on vendors.