It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up.
Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among the leaders identified by the analyst firm in its Magic quadrant for cloud database management systems, published in December 2023. Broadly speaking, these providers offer a range of data management capabilities. Other leaders identified by Gartner include MongoDB, which specialises in non-relational database technology, and Snowflake and Databricks, which focus on data warehouses and data lakes.
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At its annual user conference in June 2024, Snowflake said it would provide enterprises and the entire Iceberg community with new levels of choice, flexibility and control over their data, with full enterprise security and Apache Iceberg interoperability with AWS, Confluent, Dremio, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce, among others.
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