Worldwide RDBMS 2005 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors Show Continued Growth

This IDC study examines preliminary 2005 revenue data for the worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) software market and presents a view as to how the top 5 vendors and the market overall fared that year. In addition to revenue figures and analysis for the top 5 vendors and the market overall, a breakdown by geographic region is included.

"The year 2005 saw steady growth in the relational database management systems software market, indicating a continued increase in the deployment of relational databases," said Carl Olofson, IDC's research vice president of information management and data integration software research. "Growth has been driven by increased demand in the established geographic markets and by greenfield growth in Asia/Pacific. Factors that are driving growth include increasing demand in the United States, driven by the need for better information governance that is motivated by compliance issues and resulting in such database-growing initiatives as master data management."