Let's talk about Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) ...
"The DBMS market grew by 14.4% in 2022, reaching $91B.
Cloud databases PaaS captured nearly all the gain, with cloud spend (55.2%)
exceeding on-premises (44.8%). The non-relational DBMS and RDBMS segment grew by
26.8% and 12.2%, respectively, while prerelational-era DBMS still declined at
10.1%"
Market Share: Database
Management Systems, Worldwide, 2022. Gartner, Inc. Published May 2023.
"It is a generally accepted fact that data volumes are
continuing to explode and enterprises are struggling to keep up. The only answer
is higher capacity databases," said Carl Olofson, research vice president for
Data Management Software Research at IDC. "An increase in database size and
complexity means more database technology investment and growth, especially for
those DBMSs that include database size as a subscription cost factor."
Worldwide
Database Management Systems Software Forecast, 2023–2027. IDC. Published
June 2023.