Cloud Database Platform Positioning

Enterprise Cloud Database Platforms will need two main characteristics for a future multi-cloud distributed environment.
Convergence is the ability to use multiple database and data types in real-time or near-real-time with predictable performance. Convergence support includes transactional and analytic databases types working together, as the most valuable applications will combine both.
Distribution is the ability to:
– Distribute copies of data to meet availability and consistency requirements of databases in many local domains.
– Distribute domain ownership of databases in the form of a “Data-mesh” while maintaining control of metadata to enable enterprise compliance, provenance, and data security.

Wikibon believes Oracle has the strongest Cloud Database Platform with Autonomous Database. It offers a Tier-1 database foundation, Oracle Cloud@Customer, which provides identical X8M hardware and software in on-premises private clouds managed centrally. Oracle also provides a Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, which is a complete portfolio of public cloud services and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications into an on-premises data center.

Wikibon believes that Snowflake has impressive ease-of-use for end-users and a potentially impressive data-mesh vision. Snowflake will need to execute well and quickly on its overall vision.

Wikibon is impressed with the vision for Microsoft Cosmos DB. Microsoft also has a Tier-1 database foundation in SQL Server. Wikibon believes that Microsoft will need to integrate its Tier-1 transactional SQL Server with Cosmos DB in the future.