The Spaghettified DBMS Chart That Shows Oracle's Crown Is Slowly Slipping
The Register, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Oracle's database market dominance is gradually eroding as AWS, Microsoft, and emerging vendors gain share.
According to Gartner's latest DBMS Market Share Ranks analysis, Oracle and other legacy database vendors are slowly losing market share to cloud providers AWS and Google Cloud Platform, as well as emerging vendors like Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB.
Microsoft is the only top-five vendor from 2011 that has grown its market share over the past 15 years, while the top five vendors (AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM) have remained stable since 2022.
The primary drivers of change are cloud migration, analytics workloads, and AI adoption, with more volatility occurring in the bottom half of the market. Despite Oracle's significant market presence, its influence may gradually wane as old systems retire and new cloud-native applications built on alternative platforms gain prominence.