A Gartner revenue‑based DBMS market share chart shows Oracle slipping from the top while cloud giants and fast‑growing newcomers like Snowflake, Databricks and CockroachDB gain ground, and DB‑Engines rankings reveal PostgreSQL’s rise and Oracle’s gradual decline despite still leading overall.
In an exclusive interview, MariaDB founder Michael "Monty" Widenius discusses the rapid growth of China’s database industry, the rise of open‑source adoption, competition with cloud providers, and strategic plans for expanding MariaDB’s presence in the Chinese market.
The July 2022 China Database Popularity Ranking lists 232 databases with DM moving up to second place, while IDC reports a $15.8 billion market in H2 2021 growing 34.9% year‑over‑year and predicts the sector will reach $95.5 billion by 2026, accompanied by a collection of monthly analysis PDFs and extensive resources on active‑active disaster‑recovery solutions.
The 2022 China Database Industry Analysis Report examines market growth, product diversity, and competitive dimensions, detailing relational, NoSQL, and NewSQL classifications, open‑source concepts, and the challenges and opportunities facing domestic database vendors amid rising investment and geopolitical pressures.
This article reviews the historical evolution, market size, and technical advantages of relational databases, explains the shift from centralized to distributed architectures, and highlights OceanBase's recent breakthroughs and community events as a modern distributed relational solution.
