Crisis might have done harm to some parts of the industry, but definitely not to the relational database management systems market, which saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC.

Oracle Corporation is leading with 44.3 % of the market and a revenue growth of 13.3 percent.

This is a lot due to the release of their 11g, with a large majority of ursers upgrading to it in the recent year. This and their Real Application Clusters is what really contributed to the company’s continued growth throughout the year.