Database management systems continue their move to the cloud — a move that is producing an increasingly complex landscape of vendors and offerings. 

Gartner defines the cloud DBMS market as follows. Core capabilities are that vendors fully supply provider-managed public or private cloud software systems that manage data on cloud storage. Data is stored in a cloud storage tier (such as a cloud object store, distributed data store or other proprietary cloud storage infrastructure). Optionally, they may cater to multiple data models and data types — relational, nonrelational (document, key value, wide column, graph), geospatial, time series and others.

This Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors that supply fully managed cloud DBMS services which helps data and analytics leaders make the right choices in a complex and fast-evolving market.