Worldwide Database and Data Integration Software Market Expected to Grow 11.6% in 2011, According to IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC) today released the latest results from its Worldwide Semiannual Database and Data Integration Software Tracker.

The Tracker monitors more than 100 key vendors across a total of 49 countries, provides biannual market size, vendor share, and forecast data for the four market segments involved – relational database management systems (RDBMS), non-relational database management systems, data integration and access software (DIA), and database development and management tools.

"We expect the database and data integration market to experience year-over-year growth of 11.6% in 2011, reaching a total market size of $35.5 billion," said Wilvin Chee, associate vice president, Worldwide Software Trackers.

"While the relational database management software (RDBMS) market should grow at the same rate, the best improvement will be seen in the database development and management tools (DDMT) market, where year-over-year growth of more than 300% is expected."

In the DDMT space, a host of countries are exhibiting strong growth in 2011, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, India, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. The RDBMS market is expected to see even more countries making strong gains, including Chile, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the UAE.

"The need for better overall management in enterprises has expressed itself in initiatives to collect and manage high quality, trusted data for use in decision support as well as driving increasingly automated business processes," said Carl Olofson, research vice president, Application Development and Deployment.

"This has resulted in strong growth for database management systems, data quality, dynamic data movement, and other software that supports growing efforts in the areas of master data management, data governance, and enterprise data integration."

During the first half of 2011 (1H11), the three traditionally strongest vendors (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) further consolidated their positions with a 2% increase in collective market share compared to a year ago. For 1H11, the three vendors now hold 75% of the global market.

Among them, Oracle notably outperformed the market with year-over-year growth of 22.4%. Along with Oracle, HP and Informatica experience the best revenue growth among all the major vendors.

HP has been growing consistently above market average over the past several semiannual periods, while Informatica has been increasing steadily with strong double-digit revenue growth. HP also had revenues above the $100 million mark for the first time in a semiannual period.

IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Database and Data Integration Software Tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following database and data integration market segments: relational database management systems (RDBMS), non-relational database management systems, data integration and access software, and database development and management tools.

Measurement for this Tracker is total software revenue, which includes license plus maintenance plus SaaS and other subscription revenue.

The Tracker covers over 100 major vendors across 49 nations in total. Annual five-year market forecasts for this Tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at worldwide, regional, and country levels.