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.

Increased popularity for consuming DBMS services out of the cloud
by Paul Andlinger, 2 October 2015
Tags: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Cloudant, DBaaS, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server

According to the recent DB-Engines ranking, the popularity of Database as a Service offerings almost doubled in the last 12 months.

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
by Paul Andlinger, 4 August 2014
Tags: Cloudant, DB-Engines Ranking, MemSQL, NuoDB, RethinkDB

Some of the systems in our long list of database management systems are not yet that popular, but show a strong upward trend.