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 is Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems that ranks the top 20 cloud DBMS companies in the world—from AWS, Google and Microsoft to Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata.

Prior to 2008, whatever your database question, the answer was always,“Oracle”—or sometimes, “MySQL” or, “SQL Server.” The relational database management system (RDBMS) model—really a triumvirate of ...

Oracle, the next one on our list of easiest database programs to learn is one of the most widely used relational DBMS. The data can be easily accessed by SQL, with a user-friendly interface. It ...