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Database Industry Statistics

The database story shifts fast when DBaaS hits $50.2 billion worldwide in 2024 while 78% of breaches trace back to the human element and a lack of security awareness can cost $2.2 million on average. Add practical benchmarks like 99.99% critical service uptime alongside release level performance and reliability changes, plus the security pressure from 38,000 plus database related CVEs in 2023, and you get a page that helps you prioritize where database investment really pays off.
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Database Industry Statistics
Julian RichterWritten by Julian Richter·Edited by Diana Reeves·Fact-checked by Rajesh Patel
Published ·Updated
How this report is researched
01Editorial Scope

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02Source Research

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01 Industry overview

The database industry at a glance

The database management systems market is expanding rapidly as cloud, analytics and AI workloads reshape demand, with worldwide revenue reaching $107.8 billion in 2025, up 15.8% year over year.

$107.8B[61]
Global DBMS revenue, 2025
15.8%[61]
DBMS market growth, 2025
64%[62]
Cloud share of 2024 gain
70,600+[11]
MongoDB customers, July 2026
Market size
Gartner estimated worldwide database management systems spending at $119.7 billion in 2024, up 13.4% from the prior year. IDC reported a narrower database management systems software market of $107.8 billion in 2025, reflecting differences in market definitions and measurement.[62][61]
Forecast & CAGR
Gartner forecasts worldwide DBMS end-user spending to reach $255 billion by 2029, representing a 15.9% compound annual growth rate from 2024 to 2029. IDC data cited in MongoDB’s 2026 filing projects database management software to rise from $108 billion in 2025 to approximately $193 billion in 2030, equivalent to about 12% annual growth.[62][11]
Segmentation
Gartner reported that nonrelational DBMS revenue grew 22.7% in 2024, compared with 10.8% growth for relational DBMS. Deployment is also shifting toward cloud: cloud DBMS platform-as-a-service captured 64% of the 2024 market gain, while on-premises deployments accounted for 36%.[62]
Key players & concentration
The competitive field includes hyperscalers and established database vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, SAP, MongoDB, Snowflake and Teradata. Gartner’s 2025 market-share research says hyperscalers captured substantial growth while legacy vendors declined, indicating increasing competitive pressure from cloud platforms.[62]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Growth is being driven by rising data volumes, analytic workloads, AI adoption and cloud-native expansion. Gartner forecasts vector databases to grow at a 75.3% CAGR through 2029, while vendors face challenges from migration complexity, platform consolidation and the need to support real-time and generative-AI workloads.[62]
Consumer behavior & competition
Enterprise buyers are increasingly adopting managed database services and multi-cloud architectures to reduce administration and improve scalability. MongoDB reported more than 69,300 Atlas customers and more than 70,600 total customers as of July 31, 2026, while Atlas represented 73% of its fiscal 2026 revenue, illustrating demand for consumption-based cloud database services.[11]
M&A
M&A is increasingly focused on combining databases with AI, lakehouse and real-time data capabilities. SAP completed its acquisition of Dremio in July 2026, while MariaDB announced an agreement in March 2026 to acquire GridGain, targeting in-memory and AI-oriented workloads.[63][64]
Regulation
The EU Data Act requires cloud and other data-processing providers to support switching between services and states that switching charges, including data-egress charges, will be removed from January 12, 2027. The rules are likely to increase scrutiny of database and cloud portability practices.[65]
Latest news
In November 2026, Dropbox announced plans to acquire Tigris Data to expand into AI infrastructure and introduced DBX Agent Cloud. The transaction reflects the broader convergence of storage, databases and AI infrastructure, although the announcement did not disclose a database-management market value.[66]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Database Industry

The leading companies in the database industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 11, 2026 · Next review December 11, 2026

Verdict

Microsoft leads Gitnux's 2026 database ranking with an Overall score of 9.7, with revenue growth 15% and operating margin 45.62% for SQL Server and Azure database services. Alphabet is the highest-ranked cloud data platform provider at 9.6, with revenue growth 15% and R&D at 15.16% of revenue for Google Cloud database and data platforms.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in relational DB & Cloud

    Microsoft

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.7 · Relational DB & Cloud

    Why we picked it: It pairs SQL Server and Azure database services across cloud and on-premises, with 45.62% operating margin.

    See in ranking ↓Visit microsoft.com ↗

  2. Leader in cloud Data Platforms

    Alphabet

    US

    Ranked #2 · 9.6 · Cloud Data Platforms

    Why we picked it: It provides Google Cloud databases and data platforms, backed by 15.16% of revenue in R&D.

    See in ranking ↓Visit abc.xyz ↗

  3. Leader in in-Memory Enterprise DB

    SAP

    DE

    Ranked #4 · 9.2 · In-Memory Enterprise DB

    Why we picked it: Its SAP HANA in-memory foundation supports its enterprise application and cloud portfolio, with 18% R&D.

    See in ranking ↓Visit sap.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Picks 2 and 3 are the highest-ranked companies in the top 5 that add a new segment.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the database industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

Microsoft

Relational DB & Cloud · US

9.7
2

Alphabet

Cloud Data Platforms · US

9.6
3

Oracle

Relational DB & Cloud · US

9.6
4

SAP

In-Memory Enterprise DB · DE

9.2
5

Snowflake

Cross-Cloud Data Warehouse · US

9.2
6

MongoDB

Document database and managed database platform · US

8.9
7

IBM

Db2, watsonx.data and hybrid data platforms · US

8.6
8

Neo4j

Graph database and graph analytics platform · US

8.2
9

Couchbase

Distributed NoSQL database and database-as-a-service · US

8.0
10

Teradata

Enterprise data warehouse and analytics database · US

7.6

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 11, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Julian Richter. (2026, February 13). Top 10 companies in the database industry. In Database Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/database-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Comparison

Revenue of the largest database companies

Alphabet leads with $403.0B in annual revenue (group level, converted to USD).

Alphabet$403.0B
Microsoft$281.7B
Oracle$57.0B
SAP$39.7B
Snowflake$4.7B
MongoDB$2.5B
source-verifiedabc.xyz · microsoft.com · oracle.com · sap.com · investors.snowflake.com · investors.mongodb.com2026

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

AI usage in database management shows measurable emphasis on automation and standardization, with 47% citing automation as a benefit in 2024.

AI in the database industry

  • 45% of organizations using AI in database management reported streamlined tasks as a benefit in 2024.[1]
  • 47% of organizations using AI in database management reported automation as a benefit in 2024.[1]
  • 15% of organizations used AI in database management in 2024, down from 20% in 2023, according to a global database-professional survey.[1]
  • 80% of databases created on Neon were reportedly created by AI agents rather than humans in 2025.[2]
  • 42% of organizations using AI in database management reported standardization as a benefit in 2024.[1]
  • 25% of organizations using AI in database management identified enhanced security as a main benefit in 2024.[1]

Automation in the database industry

  • 26.9% was the projected compound annual growth rate for the global database-automation market from 2026 to 2030.[3]
  • 93% of companies used multiple database platforms in 2025, increasing the need for database-management automation, according to Quest-commissioned research.[4]
  • US$1.9 billion was the estimated global database-automation market size in 2024.[3]
  • 61% of highly confident database administrators worried that AI and automation could make their roles obsolete in 2025.[4]
  • 47% of organizations using AI in database management cited automation as a benefit in 2024.[1]

Digital Transformation in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 54.8% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief digital officer or another executive responsible for digital transformation.[5]
  • 34% of surveyed organizations globally identified replacing or upgrading legacy technology as a top digital-transformation goal in 2024.[6]
  • 45% of North American technology and business decision-makers planned to adopt AI and machine learning to improve business within 12 to 24 months.[6]
  • 72% of digital leaders globally expected to increase technology spending in 2024, compared with 50% of digital laggards, according to a survey of 855 technology and business decision-makers.[6]
  • 75% of digital leaders globally planned to increase AI-related business expenditure in 2024.[6]

Technology Adoption in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 51.8% of surveyed organizations reported that AI solutions were somewhat or extremely rare in 2024.[5]
  • More than 50% of surveyed global IT decision-makers were exploring AI use cases or piloting AI technologies in 2024.[6]
  • 57.7% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief information security officer or equivalent in 2024.[5]
  • 67.6% of IT services were delivered through cloud infrastructure among surveyed organizations in 2024.[5]

Cloud Computing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 65.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for security software applications in 2025.[7]
  • 71.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for file storage in 2025.[7]
  • 71.7% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for office software in 2025.[7]
  • 85.2% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for email in 2025.[7]
  • 26.1% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used computing platforms for application development, testing or deployment in 2025.[7]
  • 52.7% of EU enterprises with at least 10 employees used paid cloud-computing services in 2025.[7]

Big Data in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 40% was the highest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[8]
  • 3% was the lowest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[8]
  • 14% of enterprises with at least 10 employees across the OECD used big-data analytics on average, based on 2022 data or the latest available year.[8]
  • Big-data analytics adoption averaged 14% among OECD enterprises with at least 10 employees, compared with 49% for cloud computing in the latest comparable data.[8]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Business intelligence in the database industry

  • 39% was the average current business-intelligence penetration among organizations with more than 10,000 employees in the 2024 market study.[9]
  • 32% was the average current penetration of business-intelligence solutions among financial-services organizations in the 2024 market study.[9]
  • 49% was the average current business-intelligence penetration among organizations with 1–100 employees in the 2024 market study.[9]
  • $40 billion was the approximate annual global size of the business-intelligence market reported in 2025.[10]
  • 45% was the average current penetration of business-intelligence solutions among manufacturing organizations in the 2024 market study.[9]
  • 44% was the reported 2025 increase in the global business-intelligence market.[10]

Data analytics in the database industry

  • 26% was the 2025 decline in Teradata revenue from perpetual software licenses, hardware and other products as customers shifted toward subscription offerings.[11]
  • 15% was Teradata’s year-over-year public-cloud ARR growth in 2025.[11]
  • $1.522 billion was Teradata’s total annual recurring revenue in 2025.[11]
  • $609 million was Teradata’s public-cloud annual recurring revenue in 2024.[11]
  • 117% was Teradata’s cloud net-expansion rate in 2024.[11]
  • 108% was Teradata’s cloud net-expansion rate in 2025.[11]

Data Quality in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for accuracy and integrity, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[12]
  • In 2025, 43% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for quality and completeness, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[12]
  • In 2025, 35% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for consistency and standardization, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[12]
  • In 2024, 95% of enterprise data leaders and practitioners reported a data-quality issue with a direct impact on business outcomes, across companies with at least $1 billion in revenue.[13]
  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally said they were fully confident in their data quality, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[12]
  • In 2025, 34% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for relevance and suitability, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[12]

Data Governance in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2026, 76% of global data leaders said their company’s AI governance did not completely keep pace with employee use of AI technology.[14]
  • In 2024, 18.3% of organizations reported having a data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[14]
  • In 2024, 61% of supply-management organizations reported having a dedicated data-governance function, based on an Institute for Supply Management survey.[15]
  • In 2024, 35% of U.S. technology executives prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[16]
  • In 2024, 32% of global technology leaders prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[16]
  • In 2024, 81.7% of organizations reported having no data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[14]

KPIs in the database industry

  • 733 was Snowflake’s fiscal-2026 KPI for customers generating more than $1 million in trailing-12-month product revenue.[11]
  • 126% was Snowflake’s fiscal-2025 net-revenue-retention KPI as of January 31, 2025.[11]
  • 2,396 was MongoDB’s KPI for customers with at least $100,000 in annualized recurring or monthly recurring revenue as of January 31, 2025.[17]
  • 125% was Snowflake’s fiscal-2026 net-revenue-retention KPI as of January 31, 2026.[11]
  • 580 was Snowflake’s fiscal-2025 KPI for customers generating more than $1 million in trailing-12-month product revenue.[11]
  • 54,500 was MongoDB’s customer-count KPI as of January 31, 2025.[17]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Platform consumption and AI-related query volume feature in vendor metrics, including Oracle Autonomous AI Database executing more than 48 billion queries per hour in 2025.

Growth in the database industry

  • Snowflake served 790 Forbes Global 2000 customers as of January 31, 2026, up 5% year over year.[18]
  • Oracle’s cloud-services revenue represented 43% of total revenue in fiscal 2025, up from 32% in fiscal 2023.[11]
  • Oracle’s cloud services and license-support revenue increased to $43.0 billion in fiscal 2025, representing 75% of total revenue.[19]
  • Teradata completed more than 150 enterprise AI engagements in 2025 as part of its growth in AI-focused services.[20]
  • Oracle’s total revenue increased 8% to $57.399 billion in fiscal 2025.[19]
  • MongoDB had more than 2.5 million MongoDB University registrations by January 31, 2025, supporting developer-led adoption.[21]

Differentiation in the database industry

  • Teradata’s 2025 ServiceNow integration used a zero-copy connector to avoid data replication for joint customers.[22]
  • MongoDB’s business model combined open-source adoption benefits with proprietary subscription economics in fiscal 2025.[21]
  • Oracle Database@Azure offered Oracle database services across 28 Azure regions in 2025, emphasizing multicloud deployment choice.[23]
  • MongoDB’s Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program launched with 11 cloud infrastructure partners in 2024.[24]
  • Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse combined Autonomous AI Database with Apache Iceberg to provide vendor-independent data access in 2025.[23]
  • Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database executed more than 48 billion queries per hour in 2025.[23]

Mergers and acquisitions in the database industry

  • Snowflake acquired Crunchy Data Solutions for $164.5 million in cash on June 6, 2025.[11]
  • Snowflake acquired Night Shift Development, which operated as Snowflake Public Sector, before fiscal 2025 to expand national-security capabilities.[11]
  • Snowflake signed an agreement in May 2026 to acquire Natoma, an enterprise Model Context Protocol platform for AI agents.[18]
  • Snowflake acquired Observe for preliminary consideration of approximately $596.2 million on February 2, 2026.[11]
  • Snowflake acquired TensorStax to strengthen AI-driven data engineering within Cortex Code by fiscal 2026.[18]
  • Oracle acquired NetSuite for $9.3 billion in 2016, adding a major cloud-application business to its portfolio.[23]

Strategic partnerships in the database industry

  • MongoDB’s 2024 Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program launched with 11 cloud infrastructure partners, including Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud and Tencent Cloud.[24]
  • Teradata added new partnerships with ServiceNow and Salesforce in 2025.[25]
  • Teradata’s ServiceNow integration joined an ecosystem of more than 100 enterprise data partners in 2025.[22]
  • MongoDB’s 2025 Microsoft alliance included Atlas integrations with Microsoft Azure services for AI development, security and governance.[24]
  • Teradata maintained partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud as its three major public-cloud providers in 2025.[25]
  • Partners influenced 65% of SAS’s new software and hosting sales in 2025.[26]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Workforce scale differs sharply by vendor, with MongoDB reporting 5,695 employees as of April 30, 2026.

Hiring in the database industry

  • More than 5,600 people worked at MongoDB globally in March 2026, with approximately 20% based in Asia-Pacific.[24]
  • 3,187 employees worked at Elastic across more than 35 countries as of April 30, 2024.[27]
  • 5,695 employees worked at MongoDB as of April 30, 2026, up from 713 employees in January 2017.[21]
  • 67,700 customers used MongoDB as of April 30, 2026, compared with more than 3,200 customers in January 2017.[21]

Employee retention in the database industry

  • 5,695 employees were employed by MongoDB as of April 30, 2026, reflecting workforce growth from 713 employees in January 2017.[21]
  • More than 30% of Elastic’s workforce consisted of women and non-binary employees as of April 30, 2024.[27]

Remote Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 48% of U.S. software and IT professionals surveyed worked remotely in 2026, compared with 21% in France.[28]
  • 6% of global respondents worked fully remotely in 2025, defined as spending less than one day per week in the office.[29]
  • 10% of technology-services respondents worked under fully flexible arrangements in 2025, allowing employees substantial control over remote work.[29]
  • 34.8% of global software and IT services respondents worked remotely in 2026, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.[28]
  • 84% of technology-services employers agreed in 2025 that the ability to work remotely is important for employee retention.[29]

Hybrid Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 61% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs preferred hybrid work in November 2025, compared with 33% preferring fully remote work.[30]
  • 47% of global respondents worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, down from 63% in Cisco’s 2022 study.[29]
  • 52% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs worked in hybrid arrangements in May 2026, according to Gallup.[30]
  • 55% of technology-services respondents worked in a hybrid arrangement in 2025, the highest share among industries measured by Cisco.[29]
  • 56% of IT employees worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, while 31% were fully remote and 13% attended the office daily.[31]

Upskilling in the database industry

  • 4,500 education and training institutions worked with Oracle Academy across Asia-Pacific, supporting preparation for technology careers in 23 countries.[23]
  • 50,000 Oracle employees worked across Asia-Pacific in 22 countries and 139 corporate offices, supported by Oracle University training programs.[23]
  • 163,321 Oracle employees worked globally as of October 2025, with the company reporting continuous-learning and career-development programs.[23]
  • 25 days of annual leave were available to every MongoDB employee in Australia, alongside company-sponsored leadership courses and wellness initiatives.[24]

Employee Engagement in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 37% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were engaged in May 2026, compared with 34% of hybrid employees and 29% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[30]
  • 22.2% of global software and IT respondents were happy with their current professional role in 2026, while 32.6% were unhappy.[28]
  • 92% of employees ranked collaboration and community as very important aspects of office culture in Cisco’s 2025 global study.[29]
  • 74% of respondents approved of fully flexible hybrid policies in 2025, the highest positive sentiment among the policy types Cisco measured.[29]
  • 54% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were thriving in May 2026, compared with 52% of hybrid employees and 49% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[30]

DEI in the database industry

  • 30% of MongoDB’s board members identified as Asian, 60% as White and 10% declined to disclose racial, ethnic or national identity as of January 31, 2024.[21]
  • 30% of MongoDB’s board members were women as of January 31, 2024.[21]
  • 0.3% of Elastic employees declined to state their gender in fiscal year 2025.[32]
  • 0.3% of Elastic employees identified as non-binary in fiscal year 2025.[32]
  • 68.9% of Elastic employees identified as men in fiscal year 2025.[32]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Recurring revenue and customer retention metrics track managed database demand, including MongoDB’s 67,700 customers as of April 30, 2026.

Customer retention in the database industry

  • 110.1% was Fastly’s trailing-twelve-month net retention rate at December 31, 2025.[33]
  • 90% was Informatica’s subscription renewal rate at December 31, 2024.[34]
  • 125% was Snowflake’s net revenue retention rate as of July 31, 2025.[18]
  • 104% was Amplitude’s dollar-based net retention rate at December 31, 2025.[35]
  • 96% was Dun & Bradstreet’s annual revenue retention rate in 2024 among clients worldwide.[11]

Customer acquisition in the database industry

  • 740 net new customers were added by Snowflake in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.[18]
  • 47,800 customers was MongoDB’s customer count at January 31, 2024.[11]
  • 40,800 customers was MongoDB’s customer count at January 31, 2023.[11]
  • 54,500 customers was MongoDB’s customer count at January 31, 2025, across more than 100 countries.[11]
  • 7,000 customers were sold through MongoDB’s direct sales force and channel partners at January 31, 2024.[11]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Sales and marketing expense represent a meaningful share of revenue for MongoDB, at 54% in fiscal 2023.

Marketing in the database industry

  • 55% of MongoDB’s revenue was represented by sales and marketing expense in fiscal 2021.[11]
  • 54% of MongoDB’s revenue was represented by sales and marketing expense in fiscal 2023.[11]
  • 80%+ of Teradata’s employees were in customer-facing or revenue-driving roles in 2025.[11]
  • 54% of MongoDB’s revenue was represented by sales and marketing expense in fiscal 2022.[11]

Influencer Marketing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across technology companies, 27% of marketers reported dedicated but flat budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, according to Nielsen’s global marketing survey.[36]
  • Across B2B companies, 55% of marketing organizations were using influencers in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[37]
  • Across B2B companies, another 29% of marketing organizations planned to adopt influencer marketing within the next year in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[37]
  • Across B2B companies, 58% of marketing teams reported using an always-on influencer marketing approach in the 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report.[38]
  • Across technology companies, 64% of marketers reported dedicated and growing budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, according to Nielsen’s global marketing survey.[36]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Database migration outcomes are quantified in latency and operational overhead, including Netflix’s 75% latency reduction after migrating to Aurora PostgreSQL.

Process optimization in the database industry

  • 75% is the reduction in average latency achieved by Netflix’s Policy Engine after migration to Aurora PostgreSQL.[39]
  • 90% of Samsung Account requests had latency below 60 milliseconds after Samsung migrated its database to Aurora.[39]
  • 200+ databases were migrated to Amazon Aurora in six months by Infios, a global supply-chain software provider.[39]
  • 50% is the reduction in average latency achieved by Netflix’s Spinnaker after migrating to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.[39]
  • 3× is the processing-speed improvement Clari achieved after adopting Aurora I/O-Optimized.[39]

Operational efficiency in the database industry

  • 70% is the reduction in operational overhead reported by Dynata after adopting AWS Database Savings Plans.[39]
  • 40% improvement in VolumeReadIOPs and VolumeWriteIOPs was recorded by TalentNeuron after adopting Aurora I/O-Optimized.[39]
  • 1.5 million+ databases have been migrated with AWS Database Migration Service, according to Amazon Web Services.[39]
  • 45% fewer database timeouts were recorded by Infios after moving its workloads to Amazon Aurora.[39]
  • 95% of database-team time had previously been spent by Infios on troubleshooting, backups and creating lower-environment copies.[39]

Quality management in the database industry

  • 10,000+ queries per second were supported by Spanner in the Macy’s inventory-management use case.[40]
  • 10× the excess downtime period is the service-credit basis Tessell specifies when downtime is caused by its software or operations.[41]
  • 60 milliseconds was the latency threshold below which 90% of Samsung Account requests were served after migration to Aurora.[39]
  • 45% fewer database timeouts were achieved by Infios after migrating to Aurora.[39]
  • 75% faster response times were reported for workloads using Aurora’s shared-storage architecture in Netflix’s database environment.[39]

Supply chain in the database industry

  • 600+ database servers were included in a 24×7 global database-operations support program for an asset-management firm.[42]
  • 200+ databases supporting customer tenants were migrated by Infios to Amazon Aurora in six months.[39]
  • 5,000+ customers were served globally by Infios using database infrastructure supporting its supply-chain software.[39]
  • 128 TB to 60 TB was the reduction in Infios’s production database footprint after migration to Aurora.[39]
  • 18 months was the time Samsung Electronics took to migrate its global Samsung Account data to Aurora.[39]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Among German IT-service generalists, 19.5% of digital-experience services for customer projects were delivered nearshore in 2024.[43]
  • Across EU enterprises sourcing business functions internationally during 2021–2023, 28.7% moved information and communication technology services abroad.[7]
  • Across European organizations, 35% planned to increase their use of nearshore outsourcing in the 2024/2025 sourcing study.[44]
  • Among German IT-service generalists, 10.2% of digital-experience services for customer projects were delivered offshore in 2024.[43]
  • Across German digital-experience service providers, 13.2% of services for customer projects were delivered nearshore in 2024.[43]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Retention and gross margin appear alongside cost-reduction claims, including Snowflake’s non-GAAP product gross margin of 74.0% in the second quarter of fiscal 2027.

Pricing strategy in the database industry

  • 126% was Snowflake’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate in the second quarter of fiscal 2027.[18]
  • 77% of the largest software companies incorporated consumption-based pricing into their revenue models in Metronome’s 2025 survey.[45]
  • 125% was Snowflake’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.[18]
  • 829 Forbes Global 2000 customers were reported by Snowflake as of July 31, 2026.[18]
  • 97% of MongoDB’s fiscal-2026 revenue came from subscriptions.[21]

Cost reduction in the database industry

  • $1 million annually is the licensing-cost saving included in Infios’s total reported savings after migration.[39]
  • 44% was Samsung Electronics’ reported monthly operational-cost saving from Aurora PostgreSQL compared with Oracle.[39]
  • 87.3% was the database-cost reduction reported by the University of Nebraska–Omaha ITD Lab after switching to Aurora Serverless.[39]
  • 28% was Netflix’s database-cost saving across critical applications after migrating to Aurora PostgreSQL.[39]
  • $1.2 million annually is the database-cost saving Infios reported from using Amazon Aurora.[39]

Profitability in the database industry

  • 74.0% was Snowflake’s non-GAAP product gross margin in the second quarter of fiscal 2027.[18]
  • $1.768 billion was MongoDB’s gross profit for fiscal 2026.[34]
  • $8.6 billion was Oracle’s fourth-quarter non-GAAP operating income in fiscal 2026.[46]
  • 72% was MongoDB’s gross margin for fiscal 2026.[34]
  • 73% was MongoDB’s gross margin for fiscal 2025.[21]

Financial planning in the database industry

  • $72.4 billion was Salesforce’s remaining performance obligation as of January 31, 2026.[47]
  • $37 billion was Accenture’s remaining performance obligation as of August 31, 2026, including data and database services within its technology business.[48]
  • $9.77 billion was Snowflake’s remaining performance obligation at the end of fiscal 2026.[18]
  • $23.7 billion negative free cash flow was reported by Oracle for fiscal 2026 while it invested in cloud-infrastructure expansion.[46]
  • $24.317 billion was Salesforce’s unearned revenue as of January 31, 2026.[47]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

Consumption and performance constraints show up in buyer challenges; 37% of cloud-database users cited resource optimization as a major challenge in 2025.

Product development in the database industry

  • 29% was Snowflake’s fiscal-2026 product-revenue growth, driven primarily by increased customer consumption of its platform.[11]
  • 95% of Snowflake’s revenue came from product revenue in fiscal 2026.[11]
  • 28% was Snowflake’s year-over-year product-revenue growth in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.[11]
  • 30% was Snowflake’s fiscal-2025 product-revenue growth, reaching approximately $3.5 billion.[11]
  • $1.78 billion was Snowflake’s research-and-development expense in fiscal 2025, representing investment in its data-cloud platform and product development.[11]

Product lifecycle in the database industry

  • 37% of cloud-database users identified resource optimization as a major challenge in 2025.[1]
  • 40% of cloud-database users identified performance issues as a major challenge in 2025.[1]
  • 46% of surveyed organizations planned a hybrid future for database-cloud adoption in 2025.[1]
  • 63% of cloud-database users identified cost management as their biggest challenge in 2025.[1]
  • 30% of surveyed organizations hosted databases all or mostly in the cloud in 2025.[1]

After-sales in the database industry

  • $44.0 billion was Oracle’s cloud-services and license-support revenue in fiscal 2025.[11]
  • 16% of Oracle Database customers surveyed said their initial Oracle support engineer was very skilled in 2025.[49]
  • $35.3 billion was Oracle’s cloud-services and license-support revenue in fiscal 2023.[11]
  • $39.4 billion was Oracle’s cloud-services and license-support revenue in fiscal 2024.[11]
  • $5.7 billion was Oracle’s services revenue in fiscal 2026, including services supporting customer investments in Oracle technologies.[11]

Value proposition in the database industry

  • 135 Snowflake customers generated more than $5 million in trailing-12-month product revenue as of January 31, 2026.[11]
  • 745 Forbes Global 2000 companies were Snowflake customers at the end of fiscal 2025.[11]
  • 97% of Snowflake’s fiscal-2026 revenue came from existing customers under capacity arrangements.[11]
  • 68% of Snowflake’s fiscal-2026 product revenue came from customers generating more than $1 million in trailing-12-month product revenue.[11]
  • 56 Snowflake customers generated more than $10 million in trailing-12-month product revenue as of January 31, 2026.[11]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Environmental reporting spans renewable electricity and emissions avoided, including IBM conservation projects that avoided an estimated 123,000 MWh in 2025.

Sustainability in the database industry

  • 88.1% of Microsoft’s operational waste was diverted from landfill or incineration in FY2024.[50]
  • 84.5% of IBM’s total electricity consumption came from renewable sources in 2025 globally.[51]
  • 8.8 million components were harvested from Google’s decommissioned data-center hardware for reuse or resale in 2024.[52]
  • 634 energy-conservation projects implemented by IBM in 2025 avoided an estimated 123,000 MWh of energy consumption worldwide.[51]
  • 92 Oracle-owned buildings worldwide used 100% renewable energy in 2024.[23]

ESG in the database industry

  • 68% of surveyed businesses said senior data executives, including chief data and information officers, played a pivotal role in company-wide CSRD compliance in 2025.[53]
  • 83% of businesses surveyed lacked confidence that their ESG data was audit-ready for CSRD compliance in 2025.[53]
  • 70.6% of IBM’s total electricity consumption came from renewable sources in 2023 worldwide.[51]
  • 79% of Oracle’s key direct suppliers had an emissions-reduction target in place in 2021.[23]
  • 89% of surveyed businesses had collected and reported ESG data for at least one year by 2025.[53]

Ethics in the database industry

  • Less than one-fifth of organizations surveyed worldwide provided data-ethics training in 2022.[54]
  • Less than one-third of data practitioners surveyed worldwide reported knowledge of data privacy in 2022.[54]
  • 214 data-management and analytics professionals worldwide participated in TDWI’s responsible-data-and-analytics survey in 2022.[54]

CSR in the database industry

  • 74% of the electricity consumed by IBM data centers came from renewable sources in 2023.[51]
  • 10,800 kilograms of paper and wood waste were recycled by Oracle India through the ITC Well-being Out of Waste initiative in 2022.[23]
  • 70.6% of IBM’s electricity consumption came from renewable sources in 2023, as reported in its corporate impact reporting.[51]
  • 35,000 metric tons of CO2e were avoided by IBM energy-conservation projects in 2025 worldwide.[51]

Circular economy in the database industry

  • 7,820,940 pounds of Oracle electronic waste were recycled in FY2024.[23]
  • 90.9% of Microsoft servers and components were reused or recycled in FY2024.[50]
  • More than 30,000 Microsoft server racks were processed through its global packaging-recycling program by 2025.[50]
  • More than 2,500 metric tons of waste were diverted from landfill through Microsoft’s global server-rack packaging-recycling program by 2025.[50]
  • 8.8 million components were recovered from Google data-center hardware for reuse or resale in 2024.[52]

Carbon footprint in the database industry

  • 0.05 kg CO2e per kWh was Oracle’s FY2025 Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity based on energy used.[23]
  • 84.5% of IBM’s electricity consumption came from renewable sources in 2025 worldwide.[51]
  • 4 million metric tons of carbon emissions were avoided by Oracle through renewable-energy matching between 2020 and 2025.[23]
  • 85% of the electricity consumed in IBM data centers came from renewable sources in 2025.[51]
  • 123,000 MWh of energy consumption and 35,000 metric tons of CO2e were avoided through IBM conservation projects in 2025.[51]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Developer ecosystem signals stay prominent, with MongoDB University exceeding 2.5 million registrations by January 31, 2025.

Globalization in the database industry

  • More than 2.5 million registrations had been recorded for MongoDB University by January 31, 2025.[21]
  • Teradata reported more than 150 AI-focused customer engagements across multiple industries in 2025.[20]
  • Oracle’s FY2025 revenue growth was contributed 74% by the Americas, 19% by EMEA and 7% by Asia Pacific on a constant-currency basis.[19]
  • More than 210 million downloads had been recorded for the MongoDB database platform by 2025.[21]
  • Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse became available on OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Exadata Cloud@Customer in 2025.[23]

Supplier management in the database industry

  • Approximately 9% of Ingram Micro’s fiscal 2025 consolidated net sales came from products purchased from HP.[11]
  • Ingram Micro’s cloud marketplace supported more than 200 cloud solutions and managed over 40 million seats in fiscal 2025.[11]
  • SoftwareOne employed 12,712 full-time-equivalent workers in 2025 while operating with a network of software publishers, hyperscalers and local service providers.[60]
  • Three hyperscale cloud providers—AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure—were identified as SoftwareOne’s major upstream cloud suppliers in 2025.[60]
  • Approximately 10% of Ingram Micro’s fiscal 2025 consolidated net sales came from products purchased from Lenovo.[11]

Stakeholder management in the database industry

  • Teradata completed more than 150 AI-focused customer engagements in 2025 to operationalize AI for enterprise organizations.[20]
  • ServiceNow’s Workflow Data Network included more than 100 enterprise data partners when Teradata joined in 2025.[22]
  • MongoDB partners touched more than 80% of the company’s new business in 2025.[24]
  • MongoDB University had more than 2.5 million registrations as of January 31, 2025, reflecting the company’s developer-community reach.[21]

Distribution channels in the database industry

  • SAS used distributors, solution providers and service providers to reach additional clients and markets in 2025.[26]
  • Oracle Database@Azure introduced a partner program in 2025 allowing Microsoft and Oracle partners to resell the database service for the first time.[23]
  • Partners influenced 65% of SAS’s total new software and hosting sales in 2025.[26]
  • SAS reported more than 1,400 partners across 96 countries in 2025.[26]
  • SoftwareOne’s channel ecosystem included cloud resellers, hosters, managed-service providers and independent software vendors in 2025.[60]

Key questions about the Database Industry

What is the current size of the DBMS market, and what does it imply for 2025?
Gartner estimated worldwide DBMS end-user spending at $119.7 billion in 2024, while IDC reported $107.8 billion in 2025. IDC also tied the 2025 number to a 15.8% year-over-year increase.
How fast is DBMS spending growing toward 2029?
Gartner forecasts worldwide DBMS end-user spending to reach $255 billion by 2029. That equals a 15.9% compound annual growth rate from 2024 to 2029.
Which companies lead the database industry?
Microsoft leads Gitnux's 2026 database ranking with an Overall score of 9.7, with revenue growth 15% and operating margin 45.62% for SQL Server and Azure database services. Alphabet is the highest-ranked cloud data platform provider at 9.6, with revenue growth 15% and R&D at 15.16% of revenue for Google Cloud database and data platforms.
Which technology shifts are reshaping database workloads in 2025–2029?
Nonrelational DBMS revenue grew 22.7% in 2024 versus 10.8% for relational DBMS. Gartner also forecasts vector databases to grow at a 75.3% CAGR through 2029.
How are buyers and vendors dealing with increasing operational complexity?
Quest-commissioned research reported 93% of companies used multiple database platforms in 2025, increasing automation needs. In parallel, the database-automation market was estimated at US$1.9 billion in 2024 with a 26.9% projected CAGR from 2026 to 2030.
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