The database market is increasingly moving toward the cloud, according to a new report from Gartner, which estimates that 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022.

The company’s research showed that cloud database management system (DBMS) revenue accounted for 68% of worldwide DBMS revenue growth in 2018. Overall, DBMS revenue increased 18.4% to $46 billion last year, and Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounted for just over three-fourths of the total market growth. Gartner said this trend shows cloud service provider infrastructures and the services that run on them are becoming the new data management platform.

Donald Feinberg, distinguished research vice president at Gartner, said organizations are developing and deploying new applications in the cloud and moving existing assets at an increasing rate, “and we believe this will continue to increase.”

“We also believe this begins with systems for data management solutions for analytics (DMSA) use cases – such as data warehousing, data lakes, and other use cases where data is used for analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). Increasingly, operational systems are also moving to the cloud, especially with conversion to the [software-as-a-service] application model,” Feinberg added.

Leading database providers appear to agree with Gartner’s assessment. In late June, Oracle said strong customer demand had encouraged it to expand its Autonomous Database capabilities to help meet the needs of enterprise customers that want to move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud. The new Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated service is designed to provide the highest levels of security, reliability, and control for any class of database workload.

Juan Loaiza, executive vice president of mission-critical database technologies at Oracle, explained that the new service allows customers to transform from “manually managed independent databases on premises to a fully autonomous and isolated private database cloud within the Oracle Public Cloud.”

Loaiza said the aim is to eliminate enterprise concerns about security, isolation, and operational policies when moving to the cloud. Furthermore, Oracle announced the availability of built-in Autonomous Database developer capabilities, including Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle SQL Developer Web, and Oracle REST Data Services to allow developers to develop and deploy new data-driven applications.

Oracle also recently set up a direct network link into Microsoft’s Azure cloud platforms that allows enterprises to connect their workloads between the two cloud providers. The partnership takes advantage of Oracle’s embedded enterprise focus with the larger scale of Microsoft’s platform.

Meanwhile, Paris-based Atos strengthened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud with two regional extensions of existing Google Cloud data centers in Frankfurt, Germany, and Ashburn, Virginia, to support Oracle database customers.

The two regional extensions will be equipped with Atos BullSequana S servers and will allow Oracle database customers to run their workloads using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources.