| Rank | DBMS | Database Model | Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Apr 2016 | May 2015 | May 2016 | Apr 2016 | May 2015 | ||
| 1. | 1. | 1. | Oracle | Relational DBMS | 1462.02 | -5.51 | +19.93 |
| 2. | 2. | 2. | MySQL  | Relational DBMS | 1371.83 | +1.72 | +77.56 |
| 3. | 3. | 3. | Microsoft SQL Server | Relational DBMS | 1142.82 | +7.77 | +11.79 |
| 4. | 4. | 4. | MongoDB | Document store | 320.22 | +7.78 | +42.90 |
| 5. | 5. | 5. | PostgreSQL | Relational DBMS | 307.61 | +3.89 | +34.09 |
| 6. | 6. | 6. | DB2 | Relational DBMS | 185.96 | +1.87 | -15.09 |
| 7. |  8. | 8. | Cassandra | Wide column store | 134.50 | +4.83 | +27.95 |
| 8. |  7. | 7. | Microsoft Access | Relational DBMS | 131.58 | -0.39 | -14.00 |
| 9. | 9. | 10. | Redis | Key-value store | 108.24 | -3.00 | +13.51 |
| 10. | 10. | 9. | SQLite | Relational DBMS | 107.26 | -0.70 | +2.10 |
Source: DB-Engines Ranking (as of May 2016)
However, when you scrutinize the latest company financial report (March 15, 2016), you will know why Oracle worries about its existing database business and cares more about "CLOUD".
- Cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) revenues were
$583 million , up 57% in U.S. dollars and up 61% in constant currency. - Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) revenues were
$152 million , down 2% in U.S. dollars and up 2% in constant currency. - Total Cloud Revenues were
$735 million , up 40% in U.S. dollars and up 44% in constant currency.
- Total On-Premise Software Revenues were
$6.3 billion , down 4% in U.S. dollars and unchanged in constant currency. - Total Hardware Revenues were
$1.1 billion , down 13% in U.S. dollars and down 8% in constant currency. - Total Services Revenues were
$793 million , down 7% in U.S. dollars and down 2% in constant currency.
According the report from Fortune, "as for Oracle’s third quarter, sales of new software licenses for products that run on-premises fell 11% year over year. That on-premises category makes up 70% of Oracle’s overall revenue, so there’s reason for concern there."
Also, when you check the above Gartner Magic Quadrant figure, you will find out Gartner placed Microsoft ahead of Oracle within the LEADERS's quadrant. It is not because of the market share of RDBMS, but the result of Microsoft's recent investments in its data platform, including Azure DocumentDB, the managed NoSQL database in the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server is also popular not only on-premises but in the cloud. In May, Microsoft also announced the SQL Server will soon be available on Linux.
On the other front, Amazon which is considered as the absolute leader of cloud computing also grabs huge database market share and is surprisingly in the LEADERS's quadrant just below Oracle. As we all know, AWS offers Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB. Last year, Amazon also launched its own database engine called Aurora as a new database service on the AWS cloud.
We don't even mention the competition from IBM (DB2) and SAP (SAP HANA) as well as other vendors like Teradata and tons of open source or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, etc.).
Oracle might still have years to collect money from its traditional RDBMS product and service, but Larry has to fight in the CLOUD. It matters.
On the other front, Amazon which is considered as the absolute leader of cloud computing also grabs huge database market share and is surprisingly in the LEADERS's quadrant just below Oracle. As we all know, AWS offers Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB. Last year, Amazon also launched its own database engine called Aurora as a new database service on the AWS cloud.
We don't even mention the competition from IBM (DB2) and SAP (SAP HANA) as well as other vendors like Teradata and tons of open source or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, etc.).
Oracle might still have years to collect money from its traditional RDBMS product and service, but Larry has to fight in the CLOUD. It matters.
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