Open Source Market forecast: Databases

Ovum, September 2006, Pages: 26

This report examines the overall open source database (OSDB) market solely from the perspective of the revenues directly attributable to the database products. It includes both product and service revenues, but ignores the revenues from any other hardware and software elements that may come bundled with it.

Key messages

Small but growing fast
The redefinition of the database market
IBM or Oracle will open source their core database offering
A service market
Regional market split
Supply-side dynamics

Vendor market shares
A three tier market
Vendor consolidation towards the end of our forecast period
Demand-side dynamics

The ‘motivated’ to ‘mainstream’ transition
An enterprise rather than embedded software market
ISVs and tools will be key to enterprise OLTP database uptake
The rise of an OS business intelligence (OSBI) stack will be key to enterprise BI OSDB database uptake
Still an enterprise server market
OSS credentials

Low cost
Easier licensing regime
Source code access and change
Ability to pick and mix components
Cross-platform support
Independence and availability
Software quality
Community support
Incumbents’ strategy

Positively influenced
Still in charge
Microsoft first, OSDBs second
Free databases
OSDB against Microsoft
LAMP support
It’s the stack that counts
Main OSDB vendors’ strategy

MySQL
Spleepycat Software
Ingres Corp
PostgreSQL
EnterpriseDB
Greenplum
Pervasive Software
Sun
Firebird
Apache Derby
Oracle/Innobase

Spleepycat Software
Ingres Corp
PostgreSQL
EnterpriseDB
Greenplum
Pervasive Software
Sun
Firebird
Apache Derby
Oracle/Innobase
Microsoft

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