A detailed examination of the Relational Database Market Growth Share by Company reveals a significant and accelerating shift in how market value is being captured, with cloud service providers emerging as the primary beneficiaries of new growth. While traditional on-premise license sales still contribute a substantial revenue base from established enterprise clients, the vast majority of net-new growth is being driven by cloud-based managed database services. Hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) with its offerings of RDS (which supports multiple engines like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server) and its proprietary Aurora database, Microsoft with Azure SQL Database, and Google Cloud with Cloud SQL are capturing a disproportionate share of the market's expansion. This growth is fueled by enterprises undertaking digital transformation initiatives, migrating legacy applications to the cloud, and developing new cloud-native applications. The appeal of the DBaaS model—which offers pay-as-you-go pricing, automated patching and backups, and elastic scalability—presents a compelling value proposition that directly challenges the high upfront costs and operational overhead associated with traditional on-premise database deployments.

The growth dynamics are further influenced by the remarkable ascent of open-source relational database engines, particularly PostgreSQL. Its advanced feature set, extensibility, and strong community support have made it a preferred choice for new application development, rivaling the capabilities of commercial databases. Cloud providers have capitalized on this trend by offering fully managed, enterprise-grade versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL, which removes the administrative burden of self-hosting and encourages adoption. This has created a pincer movement against traditional commercial vendors: enterprises are either migrating their commercial database workloads to a less expensive, managed open-source alternative in the cloud, or they are choosing these open-source options for new projects, bypassing commercial licenses altogether. As a result, companies that have built their business models around a robust and user-friendly managed open-source offering are seeing their market share grow substantially faster than those still heavily reliant on proprietary license sales.

This trend is set to continue as data gravity pulls more applications and analytics workloads into the cloud. The ability to seamlessly integrate relational databases with other cloud services, such as data lakes, machine learning platforms, and business intelligence tools, creates a powerful ecosystem effect that further solidifies the position of cloud providers. Traditional vendors are not standing still; they are aggressively pushing their own cloud offerings and "bring-your-own-license" (BYOL) models to retain their customer base during the cloud transition. However, the fundamental shift in consumption patterns favors the cloud-native players who designed their services for agility and operational efficiency from the ground up. The Relational Database Market size is projected to grow to USD 258.57 Billion by 2035, exhibiting a CAGR of 12.50% during the forecast period 2025-2035, with the majority of this growth expected to be captured by cloud-based services.

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