
2025 State of the Database Landscape
Introduction
Welcome to the latest data industry report from Redgate. This is our
seventh major report since 2017 and, in many ways, the most important yet.
The last eight or so years have seen major changes for data professionals,
transforming the way they work, and this report highlights how.
The amount – and diverse types – of data being created and stored has skyrocketed, for
example, prompting organizations to introduce multiple database platforms. The cloud is
now as important to organizations as on-premises environments, and sometimes more
important. Data security has become a reputational risk as well as a regulatory one. AI
has burst onto the scene and continues to disrupt the way businesses work. And the need
to upgrade and extend skillsets for IT teams and individuals has never been more urgent.
We saw all of this in last year’s State of the Database Landscape report. What’s so
fascinating about the 2025 data is that we’re seeing a consolidation, a shakedown, as
organizations move beyond the promised potential of multiple databases, the cloud,
and AI, balancing the advantages to be gained with the added complexity they bring, and
the ever-present need to safeguard data. They’re taking stock, and we’re seeing a more
measured position emerge.
This latest report reveals insights into multiple database platform adoption, the cloud, AI,
and data privacy, and the professional development challenges they bring, now the dust
from these changes is beginning to settle.
Welcome to the real state of the database landscape in 2025.
Note: some chart data may not always amount to 100%
Numbers in the charts displayed are rounded up or down where
necessary to ensure consistency between a gure appearing in
a chart and the same gure being called out in the report text.
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