Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
by Paul Andlinger, 12 December 2019
Tags: Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, DBaaS, Firebase Realtime Database, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Firestore, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft Azure Search, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL Database

Cloud-based database management systems are continuously increasing in popularity. We analyze the trends and show the big players.

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
by Matthias Gelbmann, 7 February 2017
Tags: Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SimpleDB, Cloudant, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft Azure SQL Database

Cloud-based database management systems are still relatively exotic data storage solutions, adding up to only 1.6% of the popularity of the entire DBMS market. This is, however, a tenfold increase in the last four years.

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 August 2015
Tags: Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SimpleDB, DBaaS

While Amazon as DBMS provider cannot compete in popularity with Oracle, Microsoft or IBM, nor with the leading open source solutions such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, they are a significant market force when it comes to hosted DBMS solutions.