Alibaba Cloud Ranked Third Globally by Gartner's Database Management System Cloud Services Revenue in 2018
SINGAPORE,July 9,2019 -- Alibaba Cloud,the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group,generated the third largest cloud database management system (DBMS) revenue among global players in 2018,according to a recent report entitled Gartner,The Future of the DBMS Market Is Cloud,Donald Feinberg et al.,21 June 2019.
According to this report conducted by global analyst firm Gartner,Alibaba Cloud's market share ranked third among cloud-only DBMS vendors globally,up 116% from 2017. Growths of other two market leaders Amazon and Microsoft were 75% and 134% respectively.
Database Management System Cloud Services Revenue Rankings among the Major Providers,2016-2018
"Cloud-native databases like Alibaba Cloud's PolarDB will be the future of database innovations," said Lancelot Guo,Vice President of Alibaba Group and General Manager of Strategy and Marketing at Alibaba Cloud. "As enterprises increasingly migrate their on-premises databases to the cloud,cloud-native DBMS providers like Alibaba Cloud will be well positioned to benefit from the exponential growth of the DBMS market. We are a strong and competitive services provider for public services,as well as for the retail,finance and manufacturing sectors."
Alibaba Cloud is a pioneer in open-source DBMS and an advocate of distributed DBMS. The company boasts a full suite of database products,ranging from relational,NoSQL and analytic database services to database migration tools.
Among these products,PolarDB is a new generation of cloud-native database that combines performance with compatibility and availability of traditional enterprise databases at a much lower cost. It can scale up to 100TB in storage which helps customers manage big data development. It can scale up to 88 vCPUs and 710GB of memory and allows customers to pay for usage by the minute,enabling customers to handle peak business traffic while minimizing cost.
Alibaba Cloud has successfully migrated some 400,000 database instances to the cloud. Its powerful database services have endured the toughest pressure test of Alibaba Group's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival,which involved managing peak traffic volumes of approximately 100 times the daily average.
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About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009,Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com),is among the world's top three IaaS providers,according to Gartner. It is also the largest provider of public cloud services in China,according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to businesses worldwide,including merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces,start-ups,corporations and public services. Alibaba Cloud is the official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee.
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