Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
by  Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor) , 11 August 2021
Tags: Apache Phoenix, DBaaS, HBase

Cloudera announced the general availability of the CDP Operational Database Experience (COD) on both AWS & Azure in February and recently announced support of full ACID capabilities within the relational mode of the Operational Database.

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.

Emerging and fading trends in database management systems
by Paul Andlinger, 4 October 2016
Tags: DBaaS, Graph DBMS, Open source DBMS, Relational DBMS, Time Series DMBS

Articles on database technologies are jammed with buzzwords and prophecies of new trends, just like any other technology. We use the collected data of our DB-Engines Ranking to have a look at some of these trends.

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.

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.

Database as a Service offerings becoming popular?
by Paul Andlinger, 1 October 2014
Tags: DBaaS

Nowadays, everything seems to be delivered out of the cloud. We analysed whether that holds true for database systems.