The Gartner report credited IBM's acquisition of database vendor Informix in December of 2000 as the decisive move that pushed Big Blue to the number one spot for database management systems (DBMS).

Here’s the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, which ranks the top 20 global leaders in the market—from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle to Snowflake, SAP and Databricks. The 20 ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...