[revelation]

I love that chart on the second to last page. The axis are labeled "Completeness of vision" and "Ability to execute".

[mordae]

Oracle:

  Vision: Screw customers over and get their money.

  Execution: Very probable, customers don't run fast enough.

[mistermann]

It's kind of funny that they included that when Microsoft is beating them on both axes (and with a far lower TCO).

I have this feeling that Microsoft is going to be announcing some really big things in the data management area in the next 12 months.

[athrun]

This is Gartner's famous "Magic Quadrant".

[scholia]

You can download the whole report from Microsoft (not surprising, since it came out top):

https://info.microsoft.com/CO-SQL-CNTNT-FY16-09Sep-14-MQOper...

I've posted a big version of the Magic Quadrant here: http://imgur.com/3qFwPd6

[chris_wot]

Which is largely used for propaganda and often doesn't exactly mean very much.

[scholia]

The Magic Quadrant is just the eye-catching bit of what is generally a fairly substantial (15,000-25,000 word) report.

[mcguire]

I'm assuming Oracle is in the lower left?

[Spooky23]

Gartner identifies Micrsoft and Oracle as the leaders on the top right.

Mongo, EnterpriseDB and Redisnare in the upper right as well.

[mrweasel]

While they did add EnterpriseDB, they left out Postgresql.

It also seems like the chart is stuffed with a ton of databases you wouldn't even consider, just to make it look like they are more ahead than is really the case. It's not that the databases in the lower-left aren't any good, they just fulfill very different roles.