• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Database Revenues on the Rise, So Sayeth the Tracker

    July 25, 2011 Jenny Thomas

    The database market is expected to perform well in 2011, according to a new report from IDC.

    Current IDC projections for relational database management systems, or RDBMSes in the proper lingo for databases, added to data integration and access software that works in conjunction with databases, show that these combined categories will show 6.5 percent growth this year, hitting $33.9 billion. This follows a solid performance in the second half of 2010, when the market achieved year-over-year growth of 6.7 percent on revenues of $15.9 billion.

    If you do the math on the data released by IDC, then the core relational database market will grow by 7.2 percent to just over $22 billion. IDC said in its statement that the data integration and access software market would grow at around the same rate as the overall market, reaching almost $4 billion in sales globally this. If you keep doing the math (as we had to do to calculate that relational database figure), that leaves around $7.8 billion in non-relational database sales for this year. These presumably include flat-file databases like IMS that run on IBM mainframes as well as myriad NoSQL key value store databases that are used by hyperscale Web companies and have been commercialized.

    These projections are actually the findings of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Database and Data Integration Software Tracker, which provides total market size and vendor share for the following database and data integration market segments: relational database management systems, non-relational database management systems, data integration and access software, and database development and management tools. The Tracker measures total software revenue, including license, maintenance, SaaS, and other subscription revenue. It covers six geographic regions with country-level data for 13 nations.

    “2010 was something of a bounce-back year for RDBMS, in the first half for large accounts and in the second half for smaller accounts. RDBMS remains on a strong growth trend, driven by technology diversification and increased adoption of hardware-software appliance-like configurations,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president, database management and data integration software. “Additionally, increased attention to data governance, the larger issue of enterprise information management, and the coordination of an increasing number of databases is helping drive growth in the data integration and access software market.”

    The United States is forecast to perform strongly with 8.2 percent year-over-year growth in 2011 for database and related sales. Other countries are expected to have double-digit growth, including Australia, Korea, Brazil, India, and Russia. Following the trends around the globe, the database integration and access software market is expected to report more countries with double-digit growth relative to RDBMS. In fact, among the 13 large countries tracked, the only country not expected to grow well is Japan, which is forecast to achieve 2.6 percent annual growth during 2011.

    The database and data integration market is dominated by four vendors: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. Together, these vendors captured more than 75 percent of the worldwide market in 2010.

    Oracle held the top spot with the strongest year-over-year growth among the top four, as well as being the first and only vendor to surpass $10 billion in global revenues in a year. In the 13 largest country markets tracked, IDC estimated that Oracle achieved double-digit growth in most of them. Microsoft and SAP (which now owns Sybase) also did well in 2010, earning double-digit growth rates globally. Microsoft had its strongest country growth in Australia, Canada, India, Japan and Korea, while SAP had its strongest growth in Latin America, followed by Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) and Western Europe. Each of these three regions delivered double-digit growth for SAP. Outside the top four, there are another 14 vendors that earned more than $100 million each in the worldwide database and data integration market.

    RELATED STORIES

    The Relational Database Market Grows Decently in 2007

    Database Sales Grew By 14.2 Percent in 2006, Says Gartner

    Database Sales Grew in 2005, Say IDC and Gartner

    Gartner Says Database Market Continued Its Recovery in 2004



                         Post this story to del.icio.us
                   Post this story to Digg
        Post this story to Slashdot

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Tags:

    Sponsored by
    DRV Technologies, Inc.

    Get More from Your IBM i

    Many users today struggle to get at the data they need on the IBM i. When users get reports, they look like they were formatted some time last century.

    Some organizations are still printing pre-printed forms and checks on impact printers.

    How often do operators log on to their system to look for messages they hope they don’t find?

    All of these scenarios can affect users’ perception of the IBM platform negatively, but there are simple solutions.

    DRV Technologies Inc. develops innovative solutions that help customers get more from their IBM i systems.

    Solutions include:

    • SpoolFlex spool conversion & distribution
    • FormFlex electronic forms
    • SecureChex MICR laser check printing
    • MessageFlex system monitoring

    FlexTools streamline resources, improve efficiency and enable pro-active system management.

    Better software, better service, DRV Tech.

    Learn how you can get more from your IBM i at www.drvtech.com

    Call 866 378-3366 for a Free Demonstration

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Admin Alert: Porting an Image Catalog Between Power i Boxes using FTP Oracle’s Environmental Accounting App Finds Gold in Going Green

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Volume 20, Number 26 -- July 25, 2011
THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY:

Data Storage Corporation
New Generation Software
SkyView Partners
Cosyn
VAULT400

Table of Contents

  • XIV Clustered Disk Arrays Get More Oomph And Capacity
  • Top Concern for i Shops: Making Users Happy
  • IBM Powers Through The Second Quarter
  • RPG Open Access Suffering from Inaccessibility
  • As I See It: Barry, Barry Bad
  • Infor Shares Development Plans for Lawson M3
  • IBM i 7.1 Leads OS Shipments, Pushes Entry Sales
  • IBM Has A Fire Sale on BNT Rack Switches
  • Database Revenues on the Rise, So Sayeth the Tracker
  • Big Blue Doesn’t Compete Against i Cloud Backup Vendors

Content archive

  • The Four Hundred
  • Four Hundred Stuff
  • Four Hundred Guru

Recent Posts

  • Fortra Issues 20th State of IBM i Security Report
  • FNTS Launches Managed Services for Power Servers in IBM Cloud
  • Total LTO Shipped Capacity Up Slightly in 2022
  • Four Hundred Monitor, May 24
  • Update On Critical Security Vulnerability In PowerVM
  • Critical Security Vulnerability In PowerVM Hypervisor
  • IBM Power: Hosted On-Premises Or In The Cloud?
  • Guru: Watch Out For This Pitfall When Working With Integer Columns
  • As I See It: Bob-the-Bot
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 21

Subscribe

To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Contributors
  • Four Hundred Monitor
  • IBM i PTF Guide
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe

Search

Copyright © 2023 IT Jungle