Gartner IT Market Clock: It’s Time to Retire Your Legacy DBMS

Reduce costs by upgrading DBMS technology

Gartner’s latest research helps organizations build a plan to retire aging databases by deploying lower-cost open-source alternatives.

This report highlights the growing maturity, stability and functionality of open-source relational databases and their increasing use in mission-critical systems, and recommends organizations:

  • Consider an open-source RDBMS as an option for standard infrastructure
  • Create internal strategies to replace existing DBMSs based on business value
  • Consolidate multiple, disparate DBMS instances


Download this complimentary report from Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, to learn more about how open-source RDBMSs are changing the IT landscape.



Gartner IT Market Clock for Database Management Systems, 2016, Donald Feinberg, Shubhangi Vashisth, 02 September 2016.
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