Databases

Cloud and operational databases, multimodel and translytical. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant and The Forrester Wave, 2020 to 2026: 9 reports, 27 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.

Cloud Database Management Systems

Gartner Magic Quadrant · 6 editions, 2020 to 2025

20256 Leaders, 1 in other tiers2025-11-18
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Databricks Google IBM MongoDB
Changes since 2024
- Microsoft · No longer a Leader
- Oracle · No longer a Leader
- Snowflake · No longer a Leader
- Cloudera · Dropped (was Visionaries)
- Cockroach Labs · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- Couchbase · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- EDB · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- InterSystems · Dropped (was Challengers)
- Neo4j · Dropped (was Visionaries)
- Redis · Dropped (was Visionaries)
- SAP · Dropped (was Visionaries)
- Yugabyte · Dropped (was Niche Players)
20249 Leaders, 10 in other tiers2024-12-18
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Databricks Google IBM Microsoft MongoDB Oracle Snowflake
Changes since 2023
- IBM · New Leader (was Visionaries)
20238 Leaders, 11 in other tiers2023-12-18
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Databricks Google Microsoft MongoDB Oracle Snowflake
Changes since 2022
- Cloudera · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
- IBM · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
- SAP · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
- Teradata · No longer a Leader (now Visionaries)
- InterSystems · Up: Visionaries to Challengers
- Neo4j · Up: Niche Players to Visionaries
- Redis · Down: Challengers to Visionaries
- EDB · New in Niche Players
- Yugabyte · New in Niche Players
- MarkLogic · Dropped (was Visionaries)
- Tencent Cloud · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- TigerGraph · Dropped (was Niche Players)
202212 Leaders, 8 in other tiers2022-12-13
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Cloudera Databricks Google IBM Microsoft MongoDB Oracle SAP Snowflake Teradata
Changes since 2021
- Cloudera · New Leader (was Visionaries)
- MongoDB · New Leader
- InterSystems · Down: Challengers to Visionaries
- Neo4j · New in Niche Players
- Tencent Cloud · New in Niche Players
- TigerGraph · New in Niche Players
- Exasol · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- Huawei · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- MariaDB · Dropped (was Niche Players)
- SingleStore · Dropped (was Niche Players)
202110 Leaders, 10 in other tiers2021-12-14
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Databricks Google IBM Microsoft Oracle SAP Snowflake Teradata
Changes since 2020
- Databricks · New Leader (was Visionaries)
- Snowflake · New Leader (was Challengers)
- InterSystems · Up: Visionaries to Challengers
- Cockroach Labs · New in Niche Players
- Couchbase · New in Niche Players
- Exasol · New in Niche Players
- MariaDB · New in Niche Players
- SingleStore · New in Niche Players
- Tencent Cloud · Dropped (was Niche Players)
20208 Leaders, 8 in other tiers2020-11-23
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Alibaba Cloud AWS Google IBM Microsoft Oracle SAP Teradata

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Alibaba Cloud	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
AWS	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
Google	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
Databricks	Visionaries	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
IBM	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Visionaries	Leaders	Leaders
MongoDB	·	·	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
Teradata	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Visionaries	Visionaries	Visionaries
Microsoft	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	·
Oracle	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	·
Snowflake	Challengers	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	·
SAP	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders	Visionaries	Visionaries	·
InterSystems	Visionaries	Challengers	Visionaries	Challengers	Challengers	·
Redis	Challengers	Challengers	Challengers	Visionaries	Visionaries	·
Cloudera	Visionaries	Visionaries	Leaders	Visionaries	Visionaries	·
MarkLogic	Visionaries	Visionaries	Visionaries	·	·	·
Neo4j	·	·	Niche Players	Visionaries	Visionaries	·
Cockroach Labs	·	Niche Players	Niche Players	Niche Players	Niche Players	·
Couchbase	·	Niche Players	Niche Players	Niche Players	Niche Players	·
EDB	·	·	·	Niche Players	Niche Players	·
Huawei	Niche Players	Niche Players	·	·	·	·
Tencent Cloud	Niche Players	·	Niche Players	·	·	·
Yugabyte	·	·	·	Niche Players	Niche Players	·
Exasol	·	Niche Players	·	·	·	·
MariaDB	·	Niche Players	·	·	·	·
SingleStore	·	Niche Players	·	·	·	·
TigerGraph	·	·	Niche Players	·	·	·

LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed

Multimodel Data Platforms

The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2022 to 2026

20262 Leaders, 1 in other tiers2026-06-30
The Forrester Wave: Multimodel Data Platforms, Q2 2026
EDB MongoDB
Changes since 2024
- EDB · New Leader
- Google · No longer a Leader
- Oracle · No longer a Leader
- ArangoDB · New in Strong Performers
- SingleStore · Dropped (was Strong Performers)
20243 Leaders, 1 in other tiers2024-11-07
The Forrester Wave: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024
Google MongoDB Oracle
Changes since 2022
- Google · New Leader
- InterSystems · No longer a Leader
- SAP · No longer a Leader
20224 Leaders, 1 in other tiers2022-12-15
The Forrester Wave: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2022
InterSystems MongoDB Oracle SAP

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor	2022	2024	2026
MongoDB	Leaders	Leaders	Leaders
EDB	·	·	Leaders
ArangoDB	·	·	Strong Performers
Oracle	Leaders	Leaders	·
SingleStore	Strong Performers	Strong Performers	·
Google	·	Leaders	·
InterSystems	Leaders	·	·
SAP	Leaders	·	·

LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed

Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.