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Dash0 puts AWS CloudWatch at about $1.6B in 2024 and calls that conservative; grown at the market's 20% a year for 1.5 years = $2.1B. Share = $2.1B / $19B = 11.1%. Explicit range $1.4B to $3B (7.37% to 15.8%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. 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AWS segment revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"a6a209d5bf62244f140b8c16bd1a360c9580d859cf666ab54d806846f29906a1"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"a6a209d5bf62244f140b8c16bd1a360c9580d859cf666ab54d806846f29906a1"}}},"microsoft":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"microsoft","name":"Microsoft","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":24.1875,"central":24.1875,"high":24.1875,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2025 (Gartner) scaled to the mid-2026 run-rate","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Post shared with an InterSystems analyst event, shown as '2mo' old without a date: AWS $37.6B, Microsoft $33.3B, Oracle $20.7B, Google $15.2B (the fastest-growing of the top four); Databricks revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share from 1.0% to 1.2%; all of the top 10 above $2B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue for Microsoft is $33.3B (Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks, opened 22 October 2026); x1.075 for half a year of market growth = $35.8B, the same scaling that turns Gartner's $138B market into the $148B denominator, so the share equals Gartner's own share. Covers SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and Azure Database for PostgreSQL; the company says Fabric's run-rate is over $2B (January 2026), which overlaps this and the parts below. Share = $35.7975B / $148B = 24.2%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Microsoft FY26 Q2 earnings call (prepared remarks) (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q2). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":3.4314,"central":7.3529,"high":12.7451,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/data-factory","title":"Azure Data Factory","publisher":"Microsoft Azure","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Fully managed serverless data-integration service for ETL and ELT pipelines with more than 90 built-in connectors; no revenue stated"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Azure Data Factory and Fabric data integration; Microsoft gives no separate revenue. Gartner's top four data-integration vendors hold 44.5% of $5.9B (about $2.6B in 2024) and the article's author names Microsoft among them (Blocks & Files), so about $0.66B in 2024 and $0.75B grown to mid-2026. Share = $0.75B / $10.2B = 7.35%. Explicit range $0.35B to $1.3B (3.43% to 12.7%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner (https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515). Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.75,"central":2.5,"high":7.5,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q2","title":"Microsoft FY26 Q2 earnings call (prepared remarks)","publisher":"Microsoft Corporation","publishedDate":"2026-01-28","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Satya Nadella: Fabric's annual revenue run rate is over two billion dollars with over 31,000 customers, revenue up 60% year over year; new SQL Server has over 2X the IaaS adoption of the previous version"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Purview and Fabric's catalog and semantic layer are not separated in Microsoft's disclosures; Fabric as a whole has a run-rate above $2B and 31,000+ customers (Nadella, 28 January 2026). Judgment of about $0.2B. Share = $0.2B / $8B = 2.5%. Explicit range $0.06B to $0.6B (0.75% to 7.5%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":2.6316,"central":7.8947,"high":15.7895,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/monitor","title":"Azure Monitor","publisher":"Microsoft Azure","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Azure Monitor, with Application Insights and Log Analytics as features, Azure Workbooks and Managed Grafana; no revenue stated"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Azure Monitor with Application Insights and Log Analytics; Microsoft gives no revenue. Judgment of about $1.5B, a little below AWS CloudWatch's estimated size. Share = $1.5B / $19B = 7.89%. Explicit range $0.5B to $3B (2.63% to 15.8%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":38247499999.99999,"central":38247499999.99999,"high":38247499999.99999,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2025 DBMS revenue, Merv Adrian's post"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $35.8B + integration $0.75B + context $0.2B + observability $1.5B = $38.25B), not the company's total revenue. Microsoft's total or segment revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"1a4c078ece9d9d4749e9b0a4bb4f37691e95a6d7f336ce5d007da2a2d016f9e5"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"1a4c078ece9d9d4749e9b0a4bb4f37691e95a6d7f336ce5d007da2a2d016f9e5"}}},"oracle":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"oracle","name":"Oracle","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":15.0355,"central":15.0355,"high":15.0355,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2025 (Gartner) scaled to the mid-2026 run-rate","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Post shared with an InterSystems analyst event, shown as '2mo' old without a date: AWS $37.6B, Microsoft $33.3B, Oracle $20.7B, Google $15.2B (the fastest-growing of the top four); Databricks revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share from 1.0% to 1.2%; all of the top 10 above $2B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue for Oracle is $20.7B (Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks, opened 22 October 2026); x1.075 for half a year of market growth = $22.3B, the same scaling that turns Gartner's $138B market into the $148B denominator, so the share equals Gartner's own share. Merv Adrian says Oracle 'returned to double digit growth after a couple of relatively flat years'. Oracle's own Q1 FY27 slides show cloud-infrastructure database revenue of $0.9B in the quarter (+26%, Multi-Cloud DB +353%), a subset of the Gartner figure, which also counts licence and support. Share = $22.2525B / $148B = 15%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Q1 FY27 Oracle Earnings Slides (https://s23.q4cdn.com/440135859/files/content_files/Q1-FY27-Oracle-Earnings-Slides.pdf); Oracle Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":2.451,"central":4.902,"high":8.8235,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm","title":"Oracle Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026","publisher":"Oracle Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-06-22","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 1, infrastructure technologies: middleware development tools and a range of management technologies"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Oracle's 10-K lists middleware and integration technology but names no data-integration product or revenue, and oracle.com refused the fetch (HTTP 403, not retried). Gartner's top four data-integration vendors hold 44.5% of $5.9B (about $2.6B in 2024) and the article's author lists the fourth as 'Google (Data Integrator/GoldenGate)', whose product names are Oracle's (his understanding, not a Gartner figure), which supports about $0.5B to $0.75B; judgment of $0.5B. Share = $0.5B / $10.2B = 4.9%. Explicit range $0.25B to $0.9B (2.45% to 8.82%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner (https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515). Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.1875,"central":0.625,"high":2.5,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm","title":"Oracle Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026","publisher":"Oracle Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-06-22","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 1, infrastructure technologies"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Oracle's data-catalog and semantic-layer products are not named in the 10-K and oracle.com refused the fetch; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $8B = 0.625%. Explicit range $0.015B to $0.2B (0.188% to 2.5%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.5263,"central":1.5789,"high":4.2105,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm","title":"Oracle Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026","publisher":"Oracle Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-06-22","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 1: 'Oracle Enterprise Manager and the Oracle Cloud Observability and Management platform'"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. The 10-K names Oracle Enterprise Manager and the Oracle Cloud Observability and Management platform; no revenue is disclosed. Judgment of about $0.3B. Share = $0.3B / $19B = 1.58%. Explicit range $0.1B to $0.8B (0.526% to 4.21%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":23102500000,"central":23102500000,"high":23102500000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2025 DBMS revenue, Merv Adrian's post"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $22.25B + integration $0.5B + context $0.05B + observability $0.3B = $23.1B), not the company's total revenue. Gartner counts licence, support and cloud database revenue."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"3a1e012ac029c044eb70e0a191600995f3cd6465534cd9a8ad30921ce4122cd2"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"3a1e012ac029c044eb70e0a191600995f3cd6465534cd9a8ad30921ce4122cd2"}}},"alphabet":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"alphabet","name":"Alphabet (Google Cloud)","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":11.0405,"central":11.0405,"high":11.0405,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2025 (Gartner) scaled to the mid-2026 run-rate","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Post shared with an InterSystems analyst event, shown as '2mo' old without a date: AWS $37.6B, Microsoft $33.3B, Oracle $20.7B, Google $15.2B (the fastest-growing of the top four); Databricks revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share from 1.0% to 1.2%; all of the top 10 above $2B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue for Google is $15.2B (Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks, opened 22 October 2026); x1.075 for half a year of market growth = $16.3B, the same scaling that turns Gartner's $138B market into the $148B denominator, so the share equals Gartner's own share. Covers BigQuery, Spanner, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Bigtable and Firestore; Merv Adrian calls Google the fastest-growing of the top four, so a flat half-year scaling probably understates it. Alphabet's 10-K describes a data platform that 'unifies data lakes, data warehouses, data governance, and advanced machine learning' but gives no database revenue. Share = $16.34B / $148B = 11%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2025 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/goog-20251231.htm). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.9804,"central":3.4314,"high":8.8235,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/pubsub","title":"Pub/Sub for Application & Data Integration","publisher":"Google Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Only the page title could be read (the body did not load): Pub/Sub for application and data integration"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Datastream and Data Fusion (the page title reads 'Pub/Sub for Application & Data Integration'); Google gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.35B. Share = $0.35B / $10.2B = 3.43%. Explicit range $0.1B to $0.9B (0.98% to 8.82%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.25,"central":1,"high":3.75,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/dataplex","title":"Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex)","publisher":"Google Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Only the page title could be read: Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex) and Looker's semantic layer; Google gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.08B. Share = $0.08B / $8B = 1%. Explicit range $0.02B to $0.3B (0.25% to 3.75%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":1.0526,"central":3.1579,"high":7.3684,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/products/observability","title":"Observability: cloud monitoring and logging","publisher":"Google Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Only the page title could be read: cloud monitoring and logging"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace (the page body did not load; the products are named on Google's page title and in general knowledge); Google gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.6B. Share = $0.6B / $19B = 3.16%. Explicit range $0.2B to $1.4B (1.05% to 7.37%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":17370000000,"central":17370000000,"high":17370000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2025 DBMS revenue, Merv Adrian's post"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $16.34B + integration $0.35B + context $0.08B + observability $0.6B = $17.37B), not the company's total revenue. Google Cloud segment revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"87e3ddbd0d8473026b2907e690fe15620d25d3be6f57a47a9b26cf98e380d542"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"87e3ddbd0d8473026b2907e690fe15620d25d3be6f57a47a9b26cf98e380d542"}}},"sap":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"sap","name":"SAP","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":2.7703,"central":2.7703,"high":2.7703,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table of 2023 DBMS revenue: AWS $27.2B, Microsoft $25B, Google $10.1B, IBM $4.2B (+0.3%), Snowflake $2.2B, Alibaba Cloud $2.06B (+18.5%), MongoDB $1.595B, Huawei $1.44B (+15.1%); SAP 'now separated' from IBM by $419M (about $3.8B); Oracle +4.5%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for SAP was about $3.8B (the post says SAP is separated from IBM's $4.2B by $419M); grown at about 4% a year to mid-2026 = $4.1B (SAP HANA; Dremio, completed 2026-07-06, adds little). SAP's cloud revenue grew 22% in Q2 2026 but SAP gives no database revenue. Share = $4.1B / $148B = 2.77%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): SAP Announces Q2 and Half-Year 2026 Results (https://news.sap.com/2026/07/sap-announces-q2-and-half-year-2026-results/); SAP completes Dremio acquisition (https://news.sap.com/2026/07/sap-completes-dremio-acquisition/). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.9804,"central":2.9412,"high":7.8431,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000184/000110465926020058/sap-20251231x20f.htm","title":"SAP SE Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025","publisher":"SAP SE (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 4: SAP Integration Suite, a single scalable, AI-assisted integration platform as a service"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. SAP Integration Suite (iPaaS) and data services; no revenue disclosed (sap.com refused the fetch with HTTP 403 and was not retried). Judgment of about $0.3B. Share = $0.3B / $10.2B = 2.94%. Explicit range $0.1B to $0.8B (0.98% to 7.84%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":1,"central":3.125,"high":8.75,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000184/000110465926020058/sap-20251231x20f.htm","title":"SAP SE Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025","publisher":"SAP SE (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 4: SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere as 'a semantic layer'"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Business Data Cloud, Datasphere (a semantic layer) and Reltio (master data, completed 2026-05-07); the 20-F gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.25B. Share = $0.25B / $8B = 3.12%. Explicit range $0.08B to $0.7B (1% to 8.75%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.0789,"central":0.2632,"high":1.0526,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000184/000110465926020058/sap-20251231x20f.htm","title":"SAP SE Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025","publisher":"SAP SE (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Item 4: SAP Business Data Cloud (with SAP Datasphere as a semantic layer and zero-copy sharing with Databricks, Google and Snowflake), SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Integration Suite (iPaaS); no revenue for them"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. SAP Cloud ALM monitoring; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $19B = 0.263%. Explicit range $0.015B to $0.2B (0.0789% to 1.05%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":4699999999.999999,"central":4699999999.999999,"high":4699999999.999999,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table, extended"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $4.1B + integration $0.3B + context $0.25B + observability $0.05B = $4.7B), not the company's total revenue. SAP's cloud revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"92fb61a2b820ab9008e1a1c5936d9491bcbc7a5bc009fb95eb025f8b1d6215fe"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"92fb61a2b820ab9008e1a1c5936d9491bcbc7a5bc009fb95eb025f8b1d6215fe"}}},"ibm":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"ibm","name":"IBM","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":2.973,"central":2.973,"high":2.973,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table of 2023 DBMS revenue: AWS $27.2B, Microsoft $25B, Google $10.1B, IBM $4.2B (+0.3%), Snowflake $2.2B, Alibaba Cloud $2.06B (+18.5%), MongoDB $1.595B, Huawei $1.44B (+15.1%); SAP 'now separated' from IBM by $419M (about $3.8B); Oracle +4.5%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for IBM was $4.2B (+0.3%); held near $4.2B, plus DataStax (acquired 2025; Gartner 2023 $228M, +14.2%, from the 'beyond the top ten' table) = $4.4B. IBM's Data line grew 19% in Q3 2026 (company release) but that includes Confluent since 17 March 2026 and gives no dollar amount. Share = $4.4B / $148B = 2.97%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten (https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/); IBM Third-Quarter 2026 Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000051143/000005114326000093/ibm-20261021xex991.htm). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":14.7059,"central":19.1176,"high":27.451,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q4 2025 annualised (Confluent) plus estimate","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/","title":"Confluent Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results","publisher":"Confluent, Inc. (press release, copy on 01net.it)","publishedDate":"2026-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $314.8M in Q4 2025 (Q4 2024 $261.2M) and $1,166.7M for FY2025 ($963.6M in FY2024); Confluent Cloud $624M in FY2025 (+27%); 1,521 customers above $100,000 ARR"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Confluent (an IBM unit since 17 March 2026) had Q4 2025 revenue of $314.8M (x4 = $1.26B; FY2025 $1,166.7M), plus about $0.7B for DataStage, StreamSets and App Connect (Gartner's top four data-integration vendors hold about $2.6B in 2024 and the article's author names IBM's DataStage among them). Confluent's Q4 2025 run-rate is about six months old and understates mid-2026 by a few percent. Share = $1.95B / $10.2B = 19.1%. Explicit range $1.5B to $2.8B (14.7% to 27.5%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner (https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515). Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.75,"central":2.5,"high":7.5,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.ibm.com/products/category/technology/data-management","title":"IBM data management products","publisher":"IBM","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Db2, watsonx.data (data lakehouse), Cloud Pak for Data; Instana is listed as an observability product"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. watsonx.data and Cloud Pak for Data governance and catalog; IBM gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.2B. Share = $0.2B / $8B = 2.5%. Explicit range $0.06B to $0.6B (0.75% to 7.5%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.7895,"central":2.1053,"high":4.7368,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.ibm.com/products/category/technology/data-management","title":"IBM data management products","publisher":"IBM","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Db2, watsonx.data (data lakehouse), Cloud Pak for Data; Instana is listed as an observability product"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Instana (listed on IBM's data-management page as an observability product) and Turbonomic; IBM gives no revenue. Judgment of about $0.4B. Share = $0.4B / $19B = 2.11%. Explicit range $0.15B to $0.9B (0.789% to 4.74%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":6950000000,"central":6950000000,"high":6950000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table and Confluent's Q4 2025 release"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $4.4B + integration $1.95B + context $0.2B + observability $0.4B = $6.95B), not the company's total revenue. IBM's software revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"37fcb177dff61967af0403c80a7a08c037fccbe9ef8f63daf04872f99c6ca1e9"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"37fcb177dff61967af0403c80a7a08c037fccbe9ef8f63daf04872f99c6ca1e9"}}},"palantir":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"palantir","name":"Palantir","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000011/pltr-20251231.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2025","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-17","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Item 1 describes Gotham, Foundry, AIP and Apollo; no standalone database product"}},"integration-streaming":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000011/pltr-20251231.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2025","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-17","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Foundry's data integration is part of the platform sold as one product; its revenue is counted once, in context-decision"}},"context-decision":{"low":47.2716,"central":47.2716,"high":47.2716,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (commercial segment)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue by segment, three months ended 2026-06-30 vs 2025: Commercial $945,432K vs $450,714K; Government $990,032K vs $552,983K; total $1,935,464K vs $1,003,697K; RPO $4.9 billion (total)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Commercial segment revenue was $945.4M in the three months ended 2026-06-30 (10-Q; up 110% from $450.7M), x4 = $3.78B. Government revenue ($990.0M a quarter) counts in Vertical AI. Share = $3.78173B / $8B = 47.3%. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165526000011/pltr-20251231.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2025","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-02-17","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Apollo is a delivery and configuration layer; no observability product is described"}}},"screening":{"context-decision":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5}},"priorShares":{"context-decision":{"low":33.901,"central":33.901,"high":33.901,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2025 annualised (commercial segment)","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue by segment, three months ended 2026-06-30 vs 2025: Commercial $945,432K vs $450,714K; Government $990,032K vs $552,983K; total $1,935,464K vs $1,003,697K; RPO $4.9 billion (total)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Commercial segment revenue was $450.7M in the three months ended 2025-06-30 (the comparison column of the Q2 2026 10-Q), x4 = $1.80B. Share = $1.80286B / $5.318B = 33.9%. Prior-period total (about $5.32B) = Palantir's commercial Q2 2025 revenue ($450.7M x 4 = $1.80B, from the comparison column of the Q2 2026 10-Q) plus the other vendors' $4.22B divided by 1.2 ($3.52B). The 20% a year is a 5LayerCake judgment: Dataiku's ARR rose from about $300M (end-2024) to $342.5M (September 2025), about 19% annualised (Sacra). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ; https://sacra.com/research/dataiku ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":945432000,"central":945432000,"high":945432000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Palantir quarterly commercial segment revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 2026","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Palantir quarterly commercial segment revenue, US dollars, Q2 2026: 945,432,000 USD"},"note":"Form 10-Q segment table; Government revenue is excluded because it counts in Vertical AI."},"prior":{"low":450714000,"central":450714000,"high":450714000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Palantir quarterly commercial segment revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 2025","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Palantir quarterly commercial segment revenue, US dollars, Q2 2025: 450,714,000 USD"},"note":"Form 10-Q segment table, comparison column."}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":3781728000,"central":3781728000,"high":3781728000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm","title":"Palantir Technologies Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Palantir Technologies Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Commercial segment revenue x 4"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (context $3.782B = $3.782B), not the company's total revenue. Government revenue is excluded."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"6fee373b1cc9936a5d83e10ec6be0f4464b5bd204516e7347550b1272c978c62"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"6fee373b1cc9936a5d83e10ec6be0f4464b5bd204516e7347550b1272c978c62"}}},"datadog":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"datadog","name":"Datadog","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/","title":"Datadog products","publisher":"Datadog, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Datadog sells monitoring, security and digital-experience products; Database Monitoring monitors other databases; no database"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.098,"central":0.2941,"high":0.9804,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/","title":"Datadog products","publisher":"Datadog, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Log Management, Observability Pipelines, Database Monitoring, Cloud SIEM and security; no database, catalog or decision platform"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Observability Pipelines (log routing) is part of Datadog's revenue; no split. Judgment of about $0.03B. Share = $0.03B / $10.2B = 0.294%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.098% to 0.98%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/","title":"Datadog products","publisher":"Datadog, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No data catalog, governance or decision platform (Software Catalog tracks services)"}},"observability":{"low":22.4291,"central":22.4291,"high":22.4291,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue $1,121,454K in the quarter ended 2026-06-30 vs $826,760K a year earlier (+36%); about 4,720 customers at or above $100,000 ARR"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Revenue was $1,121.5M in the quarter ended 2026-06-30 (x4 = $4.49B); 95% is counted as observability, following Dash0's 5% discount for Datadog's security products (Dash0, 2024-12-13). Share = $4.26153B / $19B = 22.4%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Rethinking the Observability Market: My $12B Estimate for 2024 (https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024). Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2},"observability":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3}},"priorShares":{"observability":{"low":19.8427,"central":19.8427,"high":19.8427,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2025 annualised","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue $1,121,454K in the quarter ended 2026-06-30 vs $826,760K a year earlier (+36%); about 4,720 customers at or above $100,000 ARR"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Revenue was $826.8M in the quarter ended 2025-06-30 (the comparison column of the Q2 2026 release); x4 x 95%, the same allocation. Share = $3.14169B / $15.833B = 19.8%. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.0802,"central":0.2407,"high":0.8023,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2025 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue $1,121,454K in the quarter ended 2026-06-30 vs $826,760K a year earlier (+36%); about 4,720 customers at or above $100,000 ARR"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Datadog's total revenue (x1.356), so the prior-period value is the current $0.03B / 1.356 = $0.02212B. Share = $0.022117B / $9.189B = 0.241%. Explicit range $0.007372B to $0.07372B (0.0802% to 0.802%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":1121454000,"central":1121454000,"high":1121454000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Datadog quarterly total revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 2026","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Datadog quarterly total revenue, US dollars, Q2 2026: 1,121,454,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release (quarter ended 2026-06-30); about 5% is security."},"prior":{"low":826760000,"central":826760000,"high":826760000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Datadog quarterly total revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 2025","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Datadog quarterly total revenue, US dollars, Q2 2025: 826,760,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release, comparison column."}},"committedExpansion":{"low":0.7739,"central":0.7739,"high":0.7739,"unit":"ratio","basis":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly revenue","period":"RPO at 2026-06-30","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026054458/ddog-20260630.htm","title":"Datadog, Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly revenue, RPO at 2026-06-30: 0.7739"},"note":"Form 10-Q: remaining performance obligations $3,471.4M at 2026-06-30 (T1); quarterly revenue $1,121.454M from the results release (x4 = $4,485.8M, T2): 3,471.4 / 4,485.8 = 0.774. The tier is the lower of the two."},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":4291525199.9999995,"central":4291525199.9999995,"high":4291525199.9999995,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001561550/000162828026053829/ex-991x20260630x8k.htm","title":"Datadog Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Datadog, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-06","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"95% of annualised revenue plus the pipelines estimate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (integration $0.03B + observability $4.262B = $4.292B), not the company's total revenue. Security revenue is excluded."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"348ccf522fbea51c2fe30b99bf970b42ca7a44fd091d45c9f6d639b21dfff810"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"348ccf522fbea51c2fe30b99bf970b42ca7a44fd091d45c9f6d639b21dfff810"}}},"alibaba":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"alibaba","name":"Alibaba (Alibaba Cloud)","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":1.9595,"central":1.9595,"high":1.9595,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table of 2023 DBMS revenue: AWS $27.2B, Microsoft $25B, Google $10.1B, IBM $4.2B (+0.3%), Snowflake $2.2B, Alibaba Cloud $2.06B (+18.5%), MongoDB $1.595B, Huawei $1.44B (+15.1%); SAP 'now separated' from IBM by $419M (about $3.8B); Oracle +4.5%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for Alibaba Cloud was $2.06B (+18.5%); grown at 15% a year to mid-2026 = $2.9B. Alibaba's 20-F shows Cloud Intelligence Group revenue up 34% to RMB158.1B (US$22.9B) in the year to March 2026, which sets a generous upper end if databases grew with the whole cloud (about 1.8x, $3.7B). Share = $2.9B / $148B = 1.96%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Alibaba Group Holding Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000119312526231755/baba-20260331.htm); Alibaba Cloud database products (https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/databases). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.4902,"central":1.4706,"high":3.9216,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/databases","title":"Alibaba Cloud database products","publisher":"Alibaba Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"PolarDB, ApsaraDB (RDS, Tair, MongoDB, ClickHouse, SelectDB), AnalyticDB, Lindorm, Data Transmission Service, Data Management; over 100,000 customers and 400,000 databases; Gartner Leader for the sixth year"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data Transmission Service (DTS) is the integration product named on the page; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.15B. Share = $0.15B / $10.2B = 1.47%. Explicit range $0.05B to $0.4B (0.49% to 3.92%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.0625,"central":0.25,"high":1,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/databases","title":"Alibaba Cloud database products","publisher":"Alibaba Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"PolarDB, ApsaraDB (RDS, Tair, MongoDB, ClickHouse, SelectDB), AnalyticDB, Lindorm, Data Transmission Service, Data Management; over 100,000 customers and 400,000 databases; Gartner Leader for the sixth year"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data Management Service (DMS) with data masking; no catalog product named; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.02B. Share = $0.02B / $8B = 0.25%. Explicit range $0.005B to $0.08B (0.0625% to 1%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.7895,"central":2.1053,"high":5.2632,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000119312526231755/baba-20260331.htm","title":"Alibaba Group Holding Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026","publisher":"Alibaba Group Holding Limited (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-05-20","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Cloud Intelligence Group revenue RMB158,132 million (US$22,924 million) in fiscal 2026, +34% from RMB118,028 million; PolarDB, AnalyticDB and Lindorm upgrades described; no database revenue is disclosed"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Alibaba Cloud's log and application monitoring services are not itemised in the 20-F or on the database page; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.4B. Share = $0.4B / $19B = 2.11%. Explicit range $0.15B to $1B (0.789% to 5.26%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":3469999999.9999995,"central":3469999999.9999995,"high":3469999999.9999995,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table, extended"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $2.9B + integration $0.15B + context $0.02B + observability $0.4B = $3.47B), not the company's total revenue. Cloud Intelligence Group revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"285b2cf78991cb00e88729a610247535d786a40f581fe90e80c5adcee0a51e53"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"285b2cf78991cb00e88729a610247535d786a40f581fe90e80c5adcee0a51e53"}}},"snowflake":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"snowflake","name":"Snowflake","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":3.3064,"central":3.3064,"high":3.3064,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (product revenue x 4 x 82%)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 vs $1,090.5M a year earlier (+37%); remaining performance obligations $9.00B (+30%); net revenue retention 126%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Product revenue was $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (x4 = $5.97B). 82% is counted as database and warehouse: Gartner counted $2.2B for Snowflake in 2023 (itmarketstrategy.com, 2024-05-31) against fiscal 2024 product revenue of $2,666.8M (10-K) = 82.5%; the rest is data engineering, AI and applications. Share = $4.89343B / $148B = 3.31%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Snowflake Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/000164014726000008/snow-20260131.htm); DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts (https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.7843,"central":1.9608,"high":4.902,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/platform/","title":"Snowflake platform","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Standard Warehouse Gen2, Snowflake Postgres, Horizon Catalog (governance), Snowflake Trail (observability); Openflow and Cortex AI are named only in the navigation"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Openflow and Snowpipe ingestion are part of product revenue; no split. Judgment of about $0.2B. Share = $0.2B / $10.2B = 1.96%. Explicit range $0.08B to $0.5B (0.784% to 4.9%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.3125,"central":1,"high":3.125,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/platform/","title":"Snowflake platform","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Standard Warehouse Gen2, Snowflake Postgres, Horizon Catalog (governance), Snowflake Trail (observability); Openflow and Cortex AI are named only in the navigation"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Horizon Catalog and semantic views; no split of product revenue. Judgment of about $0.08B. Share = $0.08B / $8B = 1%. Explicit range $0.025B to $0.25B (0.312% to 3.12%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.1053,"central":0.3158,"high":1.0526,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/platform/","title":"Snowflake platform","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Standard Warehouse Gen2, Snowflake Postgres, Horizon Catalog (governance), Snowflake Trail (observability); Openflow and Cortex AI are named only in the navigation"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Snowflake Trail, plus Observe (acquired in 2026, deal value not disclosed); no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.06B. Share = $0.06B / $19B = 0.316%. Explicit range $0.02B to $0.2B (0.105% to 1.05%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"priorShares":{"databases":{"low":2.7865,"central":2.7865,"high":2.7865,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised (product revenue x 4 x 82%)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 vs $1,090.5M a year earlier (+37%); remaining performance obligations $9.00B (+30%); net revenue retention 126%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Product revenue was $1,090.5M in the quarter ended 2025-07-31 (the comparison column of the Q2 FY2027 release); x4 x 82%, the same share counted as database and warehouse. Share = $3.57684B / $128.361B = 2.79%. Prior-period total (about $128.4B) = $148B / 1.153, where 1.153 is the growth from the Gartner-attributed $119.7B (TechTarget page, 15 July 2026) to the $138B 2025 estimate; Merv Adrian's post implies market growth of about 13% (rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), so the true prior total may be somewhat higher. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.6364,"central":1.5909,"high":3.9776,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 vs $1,090.5M a year earlier (+37%); remaining performance obligations $9.00B (+30%); net revenue retention 126%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Snowflake's product revenue (x1.368), so the prior-period value is the current $0.2B / 1.368 = $0.1462B. Share = $0.14619B / $9.189B = 1.59%. Explicit range $0.05848B to $0.3655B (0.636% to 3.98%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.3436,"central":1.0996,"high":3.4355,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 vs $1,090.5M a year earlier (+37%); remaining performance obligations $9.00B (+30%); net revenue retention 126%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Snowflake's product revenue (x1.368), so the prior-period value is the current $0.08B / 1.368 = $0.05848B. Share = $0.058476B / $5.318B = 1.1%. Explicit range $0.01827B to $0.1827B (0.344% to 3.44%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $5.32B) = Palantir's commercial Q2 2025 revenue ($450.7M x 4 = $1.80B, from the comparison column of the Q2 2026 10-Q) plus the other vendors' $4.22B divided by 1.2 ($3.52B). The 20% a year is a 5LayerCake judgment: Dataiku's ARR rose from about $300M (end-2024) to $342.5M (September 2025), about 19% annualised (Sacra). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ; https://sacra.com/research/dataiku ."},"observability":{"low":0.0923,"central":0.277,"high":0.9234,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 vs $1,090.5M a year earlier (+37%); remaining performance obligations $9.00B (+30%); net revenue retention 126%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Snowflake's product revenue (x1.368), so the prior-period value is the current $0.06B / 1.368 = $0.04386B. Share = $0.043857B / $15.833B = 0.277%. Explicit range $0.01462B to $0.1462B (0.0923% to 0.923%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":1491900000,"central":1491900000,"high":1491900000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Snowflake quarterly product revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2027","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Snowflake quarterly product revenue, US dollars, Q2 FY2027: 1,491,900,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release (quarter ended 2026-07-31)."},"prior":{"low":1090500000,"central":1090500000,"high":1090500000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Snowflake quarterly product revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2026","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Snowflake quarterly product revenue, US dollars, Q2 FY2026: 1,090,500,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release, comparison column (quarter ended 2025-07-31)."}},"committedExpansion":{"low":1.5081,"central":1.5081,"high":1.5081,"unit":"ratio","basis":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly product revenue","period":"RPO at 2026-07-31","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly product revenue, RPO at 2026-07-31: 1.508"},"note":"The company says remaining performance obligations were $9.00B at 2026-07-31 (+30%) and product revenue $1,491.9M in the quarter (x4 = $5.9676B): 9.00 / 5.9676 = 1.508. Snowflake recognises product revenue on consumption, so RPO is contracted capacity, not guaranteed revenue."},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":5233432000,"central":5233432000,"high":5233432000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2026/Snowflake-Reports-Financial-Results-for-the-Second-Quarter-of-Fiscal-2027/default.aspx","title":"Snowflake Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2027","publisher":"Snowflake Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue x 4 x 82% plus the three smaller lines"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $4.893B + integration $0.2B + context $0.08B + observability $0.06B = $5.233B), not the company's total revenue. Total revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"44142dc40af8b0ee04b4ca25a58a9234e85164b56c4f7be32fcec6e297c35691"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"44142dc40af8b0ee04b4ca25a58a9234e85164b56c4f7be32fcec6e297c35691"}}},"mongodb":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"mongodb","name":"MongoDB","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":2.0859,"central":2.0859,"high":2.0859,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/0001628280-26-059794.txt","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-01","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $771.8 million in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (+30%); subscription $747.1M; Atlas up about 29%; remaining performance obligations $1,519.2M (+91%); more than 70,600 customers"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Total revenue was $771.8M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (x4 = $3.09B), all database software and services (Atlas, Enterprise Advanced); Gartner's 2023 figure for MongoDB was $1.595B (+32.4%). Share = $3.0872B / $148B = 2.09%. Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.098,"central":0.2941,"high":0.9804,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.mongodb.com/products","title":"MongoDB products","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Community Edition, Atlas Stream Processing, Atlas Search, Atlas Vector Search; more than 70K organisations; no catalog or observability product"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Atlas Stream Processing is part of subscription revenue; no split. Judgment of about $0.03B. Share = $0.03B / $10.2B = 0.294%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.098% to 0.98%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.mongodb.com/products","title":"MongoDB products","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Governance is mentioned only in passing; no catalog or decision product"}},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.mongodb.com/products","title":"MongoDB products","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Monitoring appears only as partner integrations; no observability product"}}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2}},"priorShares":{"databases":{"low":1.8429,"central":1.8429,"high":1.8429,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001441816/000144181625000176/mdb-73125xex991xrelease.htm","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2025-08-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $591.4 million in the quarter ended 2025-07-31 (+24%); subscription $572.4M; Atlas 74% of revenue"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Total revenue was $591.4M in the quarter ended 2025-07-31 (x4 = $2.37B), from MongoDB's own Q2 FY2026 release. Share = $2.3656B / $128.361B = 1.84%. Prior-period total (about $128.4B) = $148B / 1.153, where 1.153 is the growth from the Gartner-attributed $119.7B (TechTarget page, 15 July 2026) to the $138B 2025 estimate; Merv Adrian's post implies market growth of about 13% (rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), so the true prior total may be somewhat higher. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.0834,"central":0.2502,"high":0.8339,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/0001628280-26-059794.txt","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-01","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $771.8 million in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (+30%); subscription $747.1M; Atlas up about 29%; remaining performance obligations $1,519.2M (+91%); more than 70,600 customers"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with MongoDB's total revenue (x1.305), so the prior-period value is the current $0.03B / 1.305 = $0.02299B. Share = $0.022988B / $9.189B = 0.25%. Explicit range $0.007663B to $0.07663B (0.0834% to 0.834%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":771800000,"central":771800000,"high":771800000,"unit":"USD","basis":"MongoDB quarterly total revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2027","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/0001628280-26-059794.txt","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-01","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"MongoDB quarterly total revenue, US dollars, Q2 FY2027: 771,800,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release (quarter ended 2026-07-31); services revenue is a few percent of the total."},"prior":{"low":591400000,"central":591400000,"high":591400000,"unit":"USD","basis":"MongoDB quarterly total revenue, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2026","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001441816/000144181625000176/mdb-73125xex991xrelease.htm","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2025-08-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"MongoDB quarterly total revenue, US dollars, Q2 FY2026: 591,400,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release for the quarter ended 2025-07-31."}},"committedExpansion":{"low":0.4921,"central":0.4921,"high":0.4921,"unit":"ratio","basis":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly revenue","period":"RPO at 2026-07-31","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/0001628280-26-059794.txt","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-01","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Remaining performance obligations / annualised quarterly revenue, RPO at 2026-07-31: 0.4921"},"note":"The company says remaining performance obligations were $1,519.2M at 2026-07-31 (+91%; current RPO $797.3M) and quarterly revenue $771.8M (x4 = $3,087.2M): 1,519.2 / 3,087.2 = 0.492. Both numbers are from the same release."},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":3117200000,"central":3117200000,"high":3117200000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/0001628280-26-059794.txt","title":"MongoDB, Inc. Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1: Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"MongoDB, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-01","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue x 4 plus the stream-processing estimate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $3.087B + integration $0.03B = $3.117B), not the company's total revenue. Total revenue is the database revenue."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0c10f70ee6008733bd3099435e3c2406d3273c9dfeea130c2d1a90bff7ce9853"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0c10f70ee6008733bd3099435e3c2406d3273c9dfeea130c2d1a90bff7ce9853"}}},"databricks":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"databricks","name":"Databricks","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":1.0135,"central":1.8919,"high":2.3649,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 run-rate (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Post shared with an InterSystems analyst event, shown as '2mo' old without a date: AWS $37.6B, Microsoft $33.3B, Oracle $20.7B, Google $15.2B (the fastest-growing of the top four); Databricks revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share from 1.0% to 1.2%; all of the top 10 above $2B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner counted $1.6B of Databricks revenue as DBMS in 2025 (Merv Adrian's post: revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share 1.0% to 1.2%). Databricks says its run-rate rose from above $4B (second quarter of fiscal 2026, press release of 2025-09-08) to above $7B (second quarter of fiscal 2027, 2026-08-13): x1.75, so $1.6B x 1.75 = $2.8B at mid-2026. Cross-check: the company says the Lakehouse (data warehousing) run-rate is above $1.5B (Reuters, 2026-08-13), about 0.54 of the estimate; the Gartner figure is wider than warehousing because Gartner also counts other database products. The earlier screening value of $2.4B used 1.6 x $1.5B. Share = $2.8B / $148B = 1.89%. Explicit range $1.5B to $3.5B (1.01% to 2.36%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate, Exceeding $1B AI Revenue Run-Rate (https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-surpasses-4b-revenue-run-rate-exceeding-1b-ai-revenue); Databricks valued at $190 billion in latest funding round (https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/08/13/databricks-valued-at-190-billion-in-latest-funding-round); Databricks tops USD 7 billion run-rate after funding (https://cfotech.news/story/databricks-tops-usd-7-billion-run-rate-after-funding). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.9804,"central":2.451,"high":5.8824,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/product/data-intelligence-platform","title":"Databricks Data Intelligence Platform","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Lakebase (Postgres), Data Warehousing, Lakeflow (ingestion and orchestration), Unity Catalog (governance), Agent Bricks, Genie; no statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Lakeflow (ingestion and orchestration); the total run-rate is above $7B with no split. Judgment of about $0.25B. Share = $0.25B / $10.2B = 2.45%. Explicit range $0.1B to $0.6B (0.98% to 5.88%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.625,"central":1.875,"high":5,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/product/data-intelligence-platform","title":"Databricks Data Intelligence Platform","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Lakebase (Postgres), Data Warehousing, Lakeflow (ingestion and orchestration), Unity Catalog (governance), Agent Bricks, Genie; no statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Unity Catalog and Genie; no split of the $7B run-rate. Judgment of about $0.15B. Share = $0.15B / $8B = 1.88%. Explicit range $0.05B to $0.4B (0.625% to 5%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.0789,"central":0.2632,"high":0.7895,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/product/data-intelligence-platform","title":"Databricks Data Intelligence Platform","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Lakebase (Postgres), Data Warehousing, Lakeflow (ingestion and orchestration), Unity Catalog (governance), Agent Bricks, Genie; no statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Agent evaluation through Agent Bricks and Unity gateway observability; no split of the $7B run-rate. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $19B = 0.263%. Explicit range $0.015B to $0.15B (0.0789% to 0.789%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2}},"priorShares":{"databases":{"low":1.2465,"central":1.2465,"high":1.2465,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Mid-2025 run-rate (Gartner CY2025 revenue, centred on mid-year)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Post shared with an InterSystems analyst event, shown as '2mo' old without a date: AWS $37.6B, Microsoft $33.3B, Oracle $20.7B, Google $15.2B (the fastest-growing of the top four); Databricks revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B, share from 1.0% to 1.2%; all of the top 10 above $2B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue for Databricks, $1.6B, is a calendar-year figure centred on mid-2025, so it is used as the run-rate a year before the Q2 FY2027 estimate (the company's growth was fast, so the run-rate at 31 July 2025 may be a little different). Merv Adrian's post gives Databricks' share as 1.2% of Gartner's 2025 market. Share = $1.6B / $128.361B = 1.25%. Prior-period total (about $128.4B) = $148B / 1.153, where 1.153 is the growth from the Gartner-attributed $119.7B (TechTarget page, 15 July 2026) to the $138B 2025 estimate; Merv Adrian's post implies market growth of about 13% (rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), so the true prior total may be somewhat higher. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.6218,"central":1.5547,"high":3.7316,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-surpasses-4b-revenue-run-rate-exceeding-1b-ai-revenue","title":"Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate, Exceeding $1B AI Revenue Run-Rate","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"2025-09-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue run-rate above $4 billion crossed during the second quarter, growth above 50% year over year; AI products above $1 billion; net retention above 140%; 650+ customers above $1M run-rate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Databricks' total run-rate ($4B in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 to above $7B a year later) (x1.750), so the prior-period value is the current $0.25B / 1.750 = $0.1429B. Share = $0.14286B / $9.189B = 1.55%. Explicit range $0.05714B to $0.3429B (0.622% to 3.73%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.5372,"central":1.6118,"high":4.2986,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-surpasses-4b-revenue-run-rate-exceeding-1b-ai-revenue","title":"Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate, Exceeding $1B AI Revenue Run-Rate","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"2025-09-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue run-rate above $4 billion crossed during the second quarter, growth above 50% year over year; AI products above $1 billion; net retention above 140%; 650+ customers above $1M run-rate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Databricks' total run-rate ($4B in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 to above $7B a year later) (x1.750), so the prior-period value is the current $0.15B / 1.750 = $0.08571B. Share = $0.085714B / $5.318B = 1.61%. Explicit range $0.02857B to $0.2286B (0.537% to 4.3%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $5.32B) = Palantir's commercial Q2 2025 revenue ($450.7M x 4 = $1.80B, from the comparison column of the Q2 2026 10-Q) plus the other vendors' $4.22B divided by 1.2 ($3.52B). The 20% a year is a 5LayerCake judgment: Dataiku's ARR rose from about $300M (end-2024) to $342.5M (September 2025), about 19% annualised (Sacra). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ; https://sacra.com/research/dataiku ."},"observability":{"low":0.0541,"central":0.1805,"high":0.5413,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-surpasses-4b-revenue-run-rate-exceeding-1b-ai-revenue","title":"Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate, Exceeding $1B AI Revenue Run-Rate","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"2025-09-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Revenue run-rate above $4 billion crossed during the second quarter, growth above 50% year over year; AI products above $1 billion; net retention above 140%; 650+ customers above $1M run-rate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Databricks' total run-rate ($4B in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 to above $7B a year later) (x1.750), so the prior-period value is the current $0.05B / 1.750 = $0.02857B. Share = $0.028571B / $15.833B = 0.18%. Explicit range $0.008571B to $0.08571B (0.0541% to 0.541%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":7000000000,"central":7000000000,"high":7000000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Databricks annualised revenue run-rate, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2027 run-rate","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/08/13/databricks-valued-at-190-billion-in-latest-funding-round","title":"Databricks valued at $190 billion in latest funding round","publisher":"Reuters (via The Star)","publishedDate":"2026-08-13","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Databricks annualised revenue run-rate, US dollars, Q2 FY2027 run-rate: 7,000,000,000 USD"},"note":"Company statement relayed by Reuters on 2026-08-13 ('surpassed a $7 billion annualized revenue run-rate'; trade press CFOtech repeats it): a floor, so true growth is at least as high. Not independently verified. The company's own press release for this update was not found."},"prior":{"low":4000000000,"central":4000000000,"high":4000000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Databricks annualised revenue run-rate, US dollars","period":"Q2 FY2026 run-rate","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-surpasses-4b-revenue-run-rate-exceeding-1b-ai-revenue","title":"Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate, Exceeding $1B AI Revenue Run-Rate","publisher":"Databricks, Inc.","publishedDate":"2025-09-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Databricks annualised revenue run-rate, US dollars, Q2 FY2026 run-rate: 4,000,000,000 USD"},"note":"Company press release of 2025-09-08: run-rate above $4 billion, crossed during the second quarter; a floor. The total includes AI products (above $1B then, $1.4B by February 2026), so the figure covers more than this sublayer's activity."}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":3250000000.0000005,"central":3250000000.0000005,"high":3250000000.0000005,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian, LinkedIn post on Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue ranks","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2025 DBMS revenue grown at the company's run-rate growth"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $2.8B + integration $0.25B + context $0.15B + observability $0.05B = $3.25B), not the company's total revenue. The company's total run-rate of $7B includes AI products and is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0c8d5eaf923fa24d6533c908b09772205dceadc7624906a216d0db8d60dcdb6d"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0c8d5eaf923fa24d6533c908b09772205dceadc7624906a216d0db8d60dcdb6d"}}},"dynatrace":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"dynatrace","name":"Dynatrace","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/","title":"Dynatrace platform","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Grail is a data lakehouse inside the platform, not a standalone database product"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.098,"central":0.2941,"high":0.9804,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/","title":"Dynatrace platform","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Grail is described as a 'causal data lakehouse' inside the platform; OpenPipeline stream processing; application security; no standalone database, catalog or decision platform"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. OpenPipeline (stream processing) is part of the platform; no split. Judgment of about $0.03B. Share = $0.03B / $10.2B = 0.294%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.098% to 0.98%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/","title":"Dynatrace platform","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No catalog or decision platform"}},"observability":{"low":11.242,"central":11.242,"high":11.242,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2027 ARR","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $2,135,982K at 2026-06-30 vs $1,822,205K a year earlier (+17%); total revenue $554,548K vs $477,349K"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Total ARR was $2,135.98M at 2026-06-30 (+17%); Dynatrace sells almost only observability and application security, so the whole ARR is counted (application security is a small part, so the share may be a few percent high). Arize, acquired on 2026-10-01 per the register, is after this date and is not included. Share = $2.13598B / $19B = 11.2%. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2},"observability":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3}},"priorShares":{"observability":{"low":11.5089,"central":11.5089,"high":11.5089,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2026 ARR","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $2,135,982K at 2026-06-30 vs $1,822,205K a year earlier (+17%); total revenue $554,548K vs $477,349K"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Total ARR was $1,822.2M at 2025-06-30 (the comparison figure in the Q1 FY2027 release), counted the same way. Share = $1.82221B / $15.833B = 11.5%. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.0928,"central":0.2785,"high":0.9284,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $2,135,982K at 2026-06-30 vs $1,822,205K a year earlier (+17%); total revenue $554,548K vs $477,349K"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Dynatrace's total ARR (x1.172), so the prior-period value is the current $0.03B / 1.172 = $0.02559B. Share = $0.025593B / $9.189B = 0.279%. Explicit range $0.008531B to $0.08531B (0.0928% to 0.928%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":2135982000,"central":2135982000,"high":2135982000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Dynatrace total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars","period":"ARR at 2026-06-30","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Dynatrace total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars, ARR at 2026-06-30: 2,135,982,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release."},"prior":{"low":1822205000,"central":1822205000,"high":1822205000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Dynatrace total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars","period":"ARR at 2025-06-30","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Dynatrace total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars, ARR at 2025-06-30: 1,822,205,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release, comparison figure."}},"committedExpansion":{"low":1.6112,"central":1.6112,"high":1.6112,"unit":"ratio","basis":"Remaining performance obligations / total ARR","period":"RPO at 2026-06-30","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001773383/000177338326000050/dt-20260630.htm","title":"Dynatrace, Inc. 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(SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Remaining performance obligations / total ARR, RPO at 2026-06-30: 1.611"},"note":"Form 10-Q: remaining performance obligations $3,441.5M at 2026-06-30 (53% over the next 12 months) and ARR $2,136M (MD&A key metrics, +17%): 3,441.5 / 2,135.98 = 1.611."},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":2165981999.9999995,"central":2165981999.9999995,"high":2165981999.9999995,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://ir.dynatrace.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001773383-26-000049/q1fy27-earningsreleaseex99.htm","title":"Dynatrace Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results (earnings release)","publisher":"Dynatrace, Inc.","publishedDate":"2026-08-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR plus the pipeline estimate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (integration $0.03B + observability $2.136B = $2.166B), not the company's total revenue. Application security is included in ARR."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"afb017ec9eb56f9ac0544a423857142ef2f05047ceedbe11fd931565f7ec0241"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"afb017ec9eb56f9ac0544a423857142ef2f05047ceedbe11fd931565f7ec0241"}}},"tencent":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"tencent","name":"Tencent (Tencent Cloud)","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":1.1824,"central":1.1824,"high":1.1824,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/","title":"DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-06-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table below the top ten: Tencent $1.1B (+19.7%), Teradata $1.1B (+8.4%), Cloudera $907M (+5.7%), Databricks $767M (+41.8%), InterSystems $764M (+6.3%), DataStax $228M (+14.2%)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for Tencent was $1.1B (+19.7%); grown at 20% a year to mid-2026 = $1.75B, consistent with Redgate's note that Tencent has passed Huawei in Gartner's 2025 ranks. Share = $1.75B / $148B = 1.18%. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): What are the top database platforms in 2026? A look at the latest data (https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/what-are-the-top-database-platforms-in-2026-a-look-at-the-latest-data/). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.1961,"central":0.5882,"high":1.9608,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1226/76588","title":"TDSQL product documentation","publisher":"Tencent Cloud","publishedDate":"2026-01-15","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"TDSQL is an enterprise-grade database product developed by Tencent (strong consistency, distributed scale-out, intelligent DBA and monitoring); the opened text names no customers or revenue"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data transmission and streaming services; Tencent Cloud's product page is not available in text; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.06B. Share = $0.06B / $10.2B = 0.588%. Explicit range $0.02B to $0.2B (0.196% to 1.96%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.0375,"central":0.125,"high":0.625,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1226/76588","title":"TDSQL product documentation","publisher":"Tencent Cloud","publishedDate":"2026-01-15","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"TDSQL is an enterprise-grade database product developed by Tencent (strong consistency, distributed scale-out, intelligent DBA and monitoring); the opened text names no customers or revenue"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data governance services; no product page reached; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.01B. Share = $0.01B / $8B = 0.125%. Explicit range $0.003B to $0.05B (0.0375% to 0.625%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.4211,"central":1.0526,"high":2.6316,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1226/76588","title":"TDSQL product documentation","publisher":"Tencent Cloud","publishedDate":"2026-01-15","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"TDSQL is an enterprise-grade database product developed by Tencent (strong consistency, distributed scale-out, intelligent DBA and monitoring); the opened text names no customers or revenue"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Cloud Log Service and APM; no product page reached; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.2B. Share = $0.2B / $19B = 1.05%. Explicit range $0.08B to $0.5B (0.421% to 2.63%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":2020000000,"central":2020000000,"high":2020000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/","title":"DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-06-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table, extended"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $1.75B + integration $0.06B + context $0.01B + observability $0.2B = $2.02B), not the company's total revenue. Tencent Cloud revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"76935851716ceb2bd7ceb59fbfb082f21cef78d728c79df9ca34a57ed31fc349"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"76935851716ceb2bd7ceb59fbfb082f21cef78d728c79df9ca34a57ed31fc349"}}},"huawei":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"huawei","name":"Huawei (Huawei Cloud, GaussDB)","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.6757,"central":1.0135,"high":1.4865,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table of 2023 DBMS revenue: AWS $27.2B, Microsoft $25B, Google $10.1B, IBM $4.2B (+0.3%), Snowflake $2.2B, Alibaba Cloud $2.06B (+18.5%), MongoDB $1.595B, Huawei $1.44B (+15.1%); SAP 'now separated' from IBM by $419M (about $3.8B); Oracle +4.5%"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for Huawei was $1.44B (+15.1%). Redgate's summary of Gartner's 2025 ranks says Tencent has since passed Huawei, so growth is assumed slower than 15% a year: $1.5B at mid-2026. Share = $1.5B / $148B = 1.01%. Explicit range $1B to $2.2B (0.676% to 1.49%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): What are the top database platforms in 2026? A look at the latest data (https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/what-are-the-top-database-platforms-in-2026-a-look-at-the-latest-data/). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.1471,"central":0.4902,"high":1.4706,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/gaussdb.html","title":"Huawei Cloud GaussDB","publisher":"Huawei Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"GaussDB (centralized and distributed) cloud-native relational database with customer cases (PSBC, Suzhou Rural Commercial Bank); the page covers only databases"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data replication and DataArts services; the page opened covers only GaussDB; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $10.2B = 0.49%. Explicit range $0.015B to $0.15B (0.147% to 1.47%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.0625,"central":0.25,"high":1,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/gaussdb.html","title":"Huawei Cloud GaussDB","publisher":"Huawei Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"GaussDB (centralized and distributed) cloud-native relational database with customer cases (PSBC, Suzhou Rural Commercial Bank); the page covers only databases"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. DataArts governance; the page opened covers only GaussDB; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.02B. Share = $0.02B / $8B = 0.25%. Explicit range $0.005B to $0.08B (0.0625% to 1%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.2105,"central":0.6316,"high":1.5789,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/gaussdb.html","title":"Huawei Cloud GaussDB","publisher":"Huawei Cloud","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"GaussDB (centralized and distributed) cloud-native relational database with customer cases (PSBC, Suzhou Rural Commercial Bank); the page covers only databases"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Application and operations monitoring services; the page opened covers only GaussDB; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.12B. Share = $0.12B / $19B = 0.632%. Explicit range $0.04B to $0.3B (0.21% to 1.58%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1690000000,"central":1690000000,"high":1690000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/05/31/dbms-market-2023-more-momentum-shifts","title":"DBMS Market 2023 - More Momentum Shifts","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-05-31","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table, extended"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $1.5B + integration $0.05B + context $0.02B + observability $0.12B = $1.69B), not the company's total revenue. Huawei Cloud revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"610666ed1d2ebf36e95a2dd9dd3c15b744c86b399c43c6d4b8a26557de3f0b48"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"610666ed1d2ebf36e95a2dd9dd3c15b744c86b399c43c6d4b8a26557de3f0b48"}}},"salesforce":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"salesforce","name":"Salesforce (Informatica, MuleSoft)","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.salesforce.com/data/","title":"Salesforce Data 360","publisher":"Salesforce, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Data 360 is a customer-data platform; the page describes no standalone database product"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":5.8824,"central":11.7647,"high":21.5686,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://pulse2.com/salesforce-net-income-jumps-87-as-agentforce-and-data-360-arr-surges-more-than-210-to-nearly-3-9-billion/","title":"Salesforce: Net Income Jumps 87% As Agentforce And Data 360 ARR Surges More Than 210% To Nearly $3.9 Billion","publisher":"Pulse 2.0","publishedDate":"2026-08-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Informatica contributed $440M of subscription and support revenue in the quarter ended 2026-07-31; Agentforce and Data 360 ARR nearly $3.9B, Agentforce ARR above $1.5B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Informatica contributed $440M of subscription and support revenue in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (Pulse 2.0's report of Salesforce's results, 26 August 2026, opened 23 October 2026; x4 = $1.76B). The 10-K (opened) calls Informatica an 'AI-powered enterprise cloud data management platform' and reports $399M of Informatica revenue ($388M of it subscription and support) from the November 2025 acquisition date to 2026-01-31, a similar rate. No product-family split is public, so about $0.8B (about 45% of the $1.76B) is counted as data integration; MuleSoft is not broken out (the 10-K reports it together with Tableau, $6.232B in fiscal 2026) and about $0.4B of it is assumed to be data integration. Share = $1.2B / $10.2B = 11.8%. Explicit range $0.6B to $2.2B (5.88% to 21.6%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Salesforce, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000110852426000060/crm-20260131.htm); Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner (https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515). Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":2.5,"central":6.25,"high":15,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2027 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://pulse2.com/salesforce-net-income-jumps-87-as-agentforce-and-data-360-arr-surges-more-than-210-to-nearly-3-9-billion/","title":"Salesforce: Net Income Jumps 87% As Agentforce And Data 360 ARR Surges More Than 210% To Nearly $3.9 Billion","publisher":"Pulse 2.0","publishedDate":"2026-08-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Informatica contributed $440M of subscription and support revenue in the quarter ended 2026-07-31; Agentforce and Data 360 ARR nearly $3.9B, Agentforce ARR above $1.5B"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Informatica's master-data, catalog and governance products plus Data 360's semantic layer. Agentforce and Data 360 ARR together are nearly $3.9B with Agentforce above $1.5B, so Data 360 alone could be up to about $2.4B, but most of it is customer-profile data for marketing and service, so only a part is counted here. Counting more would push the shared context-decision denominator ($8.0B) above its sourced total. Judgment of about $0.5B. Share = $0.5B / $8B = 6.25%. Explicit range $0.2B to $1.2B (2.5% to 15%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Salesforce, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000110852426000060/crm-20260131.htm). Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.salesforce.com/data/","title":"Salesforce Data 360","publisher":"Salesforce, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"The page describes no observability product"}}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"context-decision":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1700000000,"central":1700000000,"high":1700000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://pulse2.com/salesforce-net-income-jumps-87-as-agentforce-and-data-360-arr-surges-more-than-210-to-nearly-3-9-billion/","title":"Salesforce: Net Income Jumps 87% As Agentforce And Data 360 ARR Surges More Than 210% To Nearly $3.9 Billion","publisher":"Pulse 2.0","publishedDate":"2026-08-26","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Informatica's Q2 FY2027 contribution: $440M of subscription and support revenue"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (integration $1.2B + context $0.5B = $1.7B), not the company's total revenue. Salesforce's total revenue is not used."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"2b142e7d5f7d5171b27e1100436cb7d5c81f50a9d4f59cf7c543bac42b75e897"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"2b142e7d5f7d5171b27e1100436cb7d5c81f50a9d4f59cf7c543bac42b75e897"}}},"cisco":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"cisco","name":"Cisco (Splunk)","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products.html","title":"Splunk products","publisher":"Splunk (Cisco)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No standalone database product; Database Monitoring monitors existing databases"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.098,"central":0.3922,"high":1.4706,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"FY2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-25","source":{"url":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products.html","title":"Splunk products","publisher":"Splunk (Cisco)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Observability Cloud, AppDynamics, Enterprise Security (SIEM), Data Management (pipelines); no standalone database, catalog or decision platform"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Splunk Data Management (pipeline optimisation) is the closest product; no revenue disclosed. Judgment of about $0.04B. Share = $0.04B / $10.2B = 0.392%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.15B (0.098% to 1.47%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products.html","title":"Splunk products","publisher":"Splunk (Cisco)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No data catalog, governance or decision platform is listed"}},"observability":{"low":4.7368,"central":5.7632,"high":12.1053,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"FY2026 (year to 25 July 2026)","periodEnd":"2026-07-25","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue by category: Observability 1,095 / 1,055 / 837"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Cisco's Observability product revenue was $1,095M in fiscal 2026 (10-K; Q4 $275M x 4 = $1,100M in the release). The category 'consists of our observability suite and network assurance offerings', and FY2026 growth came from network assurance while the observability suite declined, so some of it (network assurance) may sit outside this function. Part of Splunk's log analytics may be reported under Security (not verified), so the high end roughly doubles the central. Share = $1.095B / $19B = 5.76%. Explicit range $0.9B to $2.3B (4.74% to 12.1%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Cisco Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings (https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2026/CISCO-REPORTS-FOURTH-QUARTER-AND-FISCAL-YEAR-2026-EARNINGS/default.aspx). Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4}},"priorShares":{"observability":{"low":6.6633,"central":6.6633,"high":6.6633,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"FY2025 (year to 26 July 2025)","periodEnd":"2025-07-26","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue by category: Observability 1,095 / 1,055 / 837"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Cisco's Observability product revenue was $1,055M in fiscal 2025 (10-K comparison column), counted the same way. Share = $1.055B / $15.833B = 6.66%. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.1049,"central":0.4194,"high":1.5725,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"FY2025 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-26","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Product revenue by category: Observability $1,095M (FY2026), $1,055M (FY2025), $837M (FY2024); the category 'consists of our observability suite and network assurance offerings', and FY2026 growth came from network assurance while the observability suite declined"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Cisco's Observability revenue (x1.038), so the prior-period value is the current $0.04B / 1.038 = $0.03854B. Share = $0.038539B / $9.189B = 0.419%. Explicit range $0.009635B to $0.1445B (0.105% to 1.57%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":1095000000,"central":1095000000,"high":1095000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Cisco Observability product revenue, fiscal year, US dollars","period":"FY2026","periodEnd":"2026-07-25","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Cisco Observability product revenue, fiscal year, US dollars, FY2026: 1,095,000,000 USD"},"note":"Form 10-K product revenue by category; includes network assurance."},"prior":{"low":1055000000,"central":1055000000,"high":1055000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Cisco Observability product revenue, fiscal year, US dollars","period":"FY2025","periodEnd":"2025-07-26","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T1","locator":"Cisco Observability product revenue, fiscal year, US dollars, FY2025: 1,055,000,000 USD"},"note":"Form 10-K comparison column."}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1135000000,"central":1135000000,"high":1135000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000085887726000132/csco-20260725.htm","title":"Cisco Systems, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026","publisher":"Cisco Systems, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-09-02","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Observability product revenue plus the pipeline estimate"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (integration $0.04B + observability $1.095B = $1.135B), not the company's total revenue. Splunk security revenue is excluded."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"904dc0099e57c6d1e3356b13e89694b86dfef5313ca203295d18e91c5883095d"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"904dc0099e57c6d1e3356b13e89694b86dfef5313ca203295d18e91c5883095d"}}},"elastic":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"elastic","name":"Elastic","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.2027,"central":0.4523,"high":0.6757,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://ir.elastic.co/News--Events/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2027-Financial-Results/","title":"Elastic Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"Elastic N.V. (press release)","publishedDate":"2026-08-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $478.1M vs $415.3M (+15%); subscription revenue $448.7M; remaining performance obligations $1.854B (+27%); no split between search, observability and security"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Revenue was $478.1M in the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (x4 = $1.91B); about 35% is counted as search and vector database (Elastic gives no split between search, observability and security). Share = $0.66934B / $148B = 0.452%. Explicit range $0.3B to $1B (0.203% to 0.676%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.elastic.co/elastic-stack","title":"Elastic Stack","publisher":"Elastic N.V.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Ingestion (Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent) is bundled in the subscription; no separately sold integration product"}},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.elastic.co/elastic-stack","title":"Elastic Stack","publisher":"Elastic N.V.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"The page mentions no catalog or governance product"}},"observability":{"low":2.3684,"central":3.3551,"high":4.7368,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2027 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://ir.elastic.co/News--Events/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2027-Financial-Results/","title":"Elastic Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"Elastic N.V. (press release)","publishedDate":"2026-08-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $478.1M vs $415.3M (+15%); subscription revenue $448.7M; remaining performance obligations $1.854B (+27%); no split between search, observability and security"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. One-third of $1.91B annualised revenue, following Dash0's allocation of Elastic to observability (Dash0, 2024-12-13); Elastic gives no split. Share = $0.637467B / $19B = 3.36%. Explicit range $0.45B to $0.9B (2.37% to 4.74%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): Rethinking the Observability Market: My $12B Estimate for 2024 (https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024). Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"priorShares":{"databases":{"low":0.453,"central":0.453,"high":0.453,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://ir.elastic.co/News--Events/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2027-Financial-Results/","title":"Elastic Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"Elastic N.V. (press release)","publishedDate":"2026-08-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $478.1M vs $415.3M (+15%); subscription revenue $448.7M; remaining performance obligations $1.854B (+27%); no split between search, observability and security"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Revenue was $415.3M in the quarter ended 2025-07-31 (the comparison column of the Q1 FY2027 release); x4 x 35%, the same allocation. Share = $0.58142B / $128.361B = 0.453%. Prior-period total (about $128.4B) = $148B / 1.153, where 1.153 is the growth from the Gartner-attributed $119.7B (TechTarget page, 15 July 2026) to the $138B 2025 estimate; Merv Adrian's post implies market growth of about 13% (rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), so the true prior total may be somewhat higher. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"observability":{"low":3.4973,"central":3.4973,"high":3.4973,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q1 FY2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-07-31","source":{"url":"https://ir.elastic.co/News--Events/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2027-Financial-Results/","title":"Elastic Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"Elastic N.V. (press release)","publishedDate":"2026-08-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $478.1M vs $415.3M (+15%); subscription revenue $448.7M; remaining performance obligations $1.854B (+27%); no split between search, observability and security"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Revenue of $415.3M in the quarter ended 2025-07-31, x4, one-third, the same allocation. Share = $0.553733B / $15.833B = 3.5%. Prior-period total (about $15.8B) = $19.0B / 1.20, because Dash0 puts the observability market's growth at about 20% a year (Dash0, 13 December 2024; https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024, opened 22 October 2026)."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":478100000,"central":478100000,"high":478100000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Elastic quarterly total revenue, US dollars","period":"Q1 FY2027","periodEnd":"2026-07-31","source":{"url":"https://ir.elastic.co/News--Events/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-2027-Financial-Results/","title":"Elastic Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results","publisher":"Elastic N.V. 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Security revenue is excluded."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"074db902aa2e547f837541a3c2bcb506dc39b674dc6cb89eab9eddc70472a250"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"074db902aa2e547f837541a3c2bcb506dc39b674dc6cb89eab9eddc70472a250"}}},"new-relic":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"new-relic","name":"New Relic","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://newrelic.com/platform","title":"New Relic platform","publisher":"New Relic","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No database product; Database Monitoring monitors other databases"}},"integration-streaming":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://newrelic.com/platform","title":"New Relic platform","publisher":"New Relic","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No integration product (the 800+ integrations are connectors into the monitoring platform)"}},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://newrelic.com/platform","title":"New Relic platform","publisher":"New Relic","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No catalog or decision product (Service Architecture Intelligence tracks service dependencies)"}},"observability":{"low":4.7368,"central":5.2632,"high":6.8421,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 FY2024 annualised (stale), estimate","periodEnd":"2023-09-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448056/000144805623000052/newrex991q22024.htm","title":"New Relic Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"New Relic, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2023-10-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total revenue $242.8M for the quarter ended 2023-09-30, up 7% from $226.9M; consumption revenue $223.3M; the last quarter New Relic reported before going private (2023)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. New Relic's last public quarter (ended 2023-09-30) had revenue of $242.8M (+7%; x4 = $0.97B); it has been private since November 2023 and gives no figures, so $1.0B with a range from flat to growth. A 2025 mention of a billion-dollar milestone was not in an opened source. Share = $1B / $19B = 5.26%. Explicit range $0.9B to $1.3B (4.74% to 6.84%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"observability":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1000000000,"central":1000000000,"high":1000000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448056/000144805623000052/newrex991q22024.htm","title":"New Relic Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"New Relic, Inc. (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2023-10-27","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Last public quarter x 4"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (observability $1B = $1B), not the company's total revenue. New Relic has been private since 2023."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"25602ef51813d58522363944ca65bce9fd9191b07d38b0846a5b984f5afc9a8b"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"25602ef51813d58522363944ca65bce9fd9191b07d38b0846a5b984f5afc9a8b"}}},"cloudera":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"cloudera","name":"Cloudera","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.6757,"central":0.6757,"high":0.6757,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2023 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2023-12-31","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/","title":"DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-06-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Table below the top ten: Tencent $1.1B (+19.7%), Teradata $1.1B (+8.4%), Cloudera $907M (+5.7%), Databricks $767M (+41.8%), InterSystems $764M (+6.3%), DataStax $228M (+14.2%)"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for Cloudera was $907M (+5.7%); grown at 5% a year to mid-2026 = $1.0B. Cloudera's fiscal 2026 results release (February 2026) described 'robust' ARR growth without a figure; a profile page claiming more than $1B of ARR was not reachable and is not used. Share = $1B / $148B = 0.676%. Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.3922,"central":1.1765,"high":2.9412,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.cloudera.com/","title":"Cloudera platform","publisher":"Cloudera, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Operational Database, Data Warehouse, Data Flow, Streaming, Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Observability products; customer results but no ARR or revenue on the page"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Cloudera Data Flow and Streaming (NiFi, Kafka); no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.12B. Share = $0.12B / $10.2B = 1.18%. Explicit range $0.04B to $0.3B (0.392% to 2.94%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.1875,"central":0.625,"high":1.875,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.cloudera.com/","title":"Cloudera platform","publisher":"Cloudera, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Operational Database, Data Warehouse, Data Flow, Streaming, Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Observability products; customer results but no ARR or revenue on the page"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data Catalog and Data Lineage; no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $8B = 0.625%. Explicit range $0.015B to $0.15B (0.188% to 1.88%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.0526,"central":0.1579,"high":0.5263,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.cloudera.com/","title":"Cloudera platform","publisher":"Cloudera, Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Operational Database, Data Warehouse, Data Flow, Streaming, Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Observability products; customer results but no ARR or revenue on the page"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Observability is listed as a product; no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.03B. Share = $0.03B / $19B = 0.158%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.0526% to 0.526%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":2,"levelHigh":4},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1200000000,"central":1200000000,"high":1200000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/","title":"DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten","publisher":"IT Market Strategy (Merv Adrian), reporting Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"2024-06-05","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 DBMS table, extended"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $1B + integration $0.12B + context $0.05B + observability $0.03B = $1.2B), not the company's total revenue. Cloudera has no public revenue."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"83aae4bd21e5ccc4ebc71f941097673855ca6c1ad6bbeb6983a7cb31f4c7d5c4"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"83aae4bd21e5ccc4ebc71f941097673855ca6c1ad6bbeb6983a7cb31f4c7d5c4"}}},"teradata":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"teradata","name":"Teradata","kind":"public","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.5405,"central":0.7432,"high":1.0196,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 run-rate (Gartner 2023 base, ARR flat)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $1,509M at 2026-06-30 vs $1,489M a year earlier; public cloud ARR $686M vs $634M; recurring revenue $363M vs $354M; total revenue $410M vs $408M"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2023 DBMS revenue for Teradata was $1.1B (+8.4%, itmarketstrategy.com, 2024-06-05). Teradata's total ARR is $1,509M at 2026-06-30 against $1,489M a year earlier (company release), essentially flat, so the 2023 figure is held at $1.1B for mid-2026; the high end is the whole ARR. Share = $1.1B / $148B = 0.743%. Explicit range $0.8B to $1.509B (0.54% to 1.02%), because no source pins the figure down. Also used (opened 22 October 2026): DBMS Revenues 2023 - Beyond the Top Ten (https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/). Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.049,"central":0.1961,"high":0.7843,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.teradata.com/platform","title":"Teradata platform","publisher":"Teradata Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Teradata Database, Teradata Fabric (formerly QueryGrid), AI Studio, Enterprise Vector Store; no observability product or data catalog mentioned"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Teradata Fabric (formerly QueryGrid) connects data sources; no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.02B. Share = $0.02B / $10.2B = 0.196%. Explicit range $0.005B to $0.08B (0.049% to 0.784%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.teradata.com/platform","title":"Teradata platform","publisher":"Teradata Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Governance is a platform function; no separate catalog or decision product is named"}},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.teradata.com/platform","title":"Teradata platform","publisher":"Teradata Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"The page does not mention observability"}}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":2}},"priorShares":{"databases":{"low":0.8456,"central":0.8456,"high":0.8456,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2025 run-rate (Gartner 2023 base, ARR flat)","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $1,509M at 2026-06-30 vs $1,489M a year earlier; public cloud ARR $686M vs $634M; recurring revenue $363M vs $354M; total revenue $410M vs $408M"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. The same base ($1.1B), scaled back by the year-on-year change in total ARR ($1,489M at 2025-06-30 vs $1,509M): $1.1B x 1,489 / 1,509. Share = $1.08542B / $128.361B = 0.846%. Prior-period total (about $128.4B) = $148B / 1.153, where 1.153 is the growth from the Gartner-attributed $119.7B (TechTarget page, 15 July 2026) to the $138B 2025 estimate; Merv Adrian's post implies market growth of about 13% (rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), so the true prior total may be somewhat higher. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.0537,"central":0.2148,"high":0.8591,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2025 run-rate (estimate)","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Total ARR $1,509M at 2026-06-30 vs $1,489M a year earlier; public cloud ARR $686M vs $634M; recurring revenue $363M vs $354M; total revenue $410M vs $408M"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Not reported by the company. Assumes this line grew with Teradata's total ARR (x1.013), so the prior-period value is the current $0.02B / 1.013 = $0.01973B. Share = $0.019735B / $9.189B = 0.215%. Explicit range $0.004934B to $0.07894B (0.0537% to 0.859%), because no source pins the figure down. Prior-period total (about $9.2B) = $10.2B / 1.11: blended growth of about 11% a year, from Gartner's data-integration tools (+9.8% in 2024, 8.1% a year forecast; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) and faster-growing event streaming (Confluent's 2025 revenue +21%). Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ; https://www.01net.it/confluent-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2025-financial-results/ ."}},"activityGrowth":{"current":{"low":1509000000,"central":1509000000,"high":1509000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Teradata total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars","period":"ARR at 2026-06-30","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Teradata total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars, ARR at 2026-06-30: 1,509,000,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release."},"prior":{"low":1489000000,"central":1489000000,"high":1489000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Teradata total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars","period":"ARR at 2025-06-30","periodEnd":"2025-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Teradata total annual recurring revenue (ARR), US dollars, ARR at 2025-06-30: 1,489,000,000 USD"},"note":"Company results release, comparison figure."}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":1120000000,"central":1120000000,"high":1120000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000816761/000162828026052549/tdc06302026exhibit991.htm","title":"Teradata Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)","publisher":"Teradata Corporation (SEC EDGAR)","publishedDate":"2026-08-04","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2023 base held flat on ARR"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $1.1B + integration $0.02B = $1.12B), not the company's total revenue. ARR includes some non-database software."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"e96a1e4b90b18c7dd1f85c034ee65ee99bee1106661999c3f69470cea9f7b5a4"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"e96a1e4b90b18c7dd1f85c034ee65ee99bee1106661999c3f69470cea9f7b5a4"}}},"intersystems":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"intersystems","name":"InterSystems","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.5804,"central":0.5804,"high":0.5804,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"CY2025 (Gartner) extended to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian (LinkedIn): post on InterSystems' analyst event and Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn post reporting Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Post opens 'Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue numbers held few surprises'; InterSystems 'coming in at $845M by Gartner's estimate', growth 3.3%; the page shows only a relative age ('2mo'), so the date is undated"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue for InterSystems is $845M (+3.3%), as reported by industry analyst Merv Adrian in a LinkedIn post (opened 23 October 2026; gartner.com was not fetched). The post says InterSystems has 'not yet hit $1B in DBMS revenue' and that, being private, its figures are estimates. Extended half a year to mid-2026 at its own 2025 growth: 0.845 x 1.033^0.5 = $0.859B. InterSystems also sells healthcare applications, which are not counted. Its newsroom page shows no revenue. Cross-check: Gartner's 2023 figure for InterSystems was $764M (+6.3%; IT Market Strategy, 5 June 2024, https://itmarketstrategy.com/2024/06/05/dbms-revenues-2023-beyond-the-top-ten/), about 5% a year to $845M. Share = $0.859B / $148B = 0.580%. Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.1961,"central":0.4902,"high":1.4706,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.intersystems.com/","title":"InterSystems","publisher":"InterSystems","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"InterSystems IRIS data platform, Health Connect (healthcare integration engine), Data Studio, Supply Chain Orchestrator (AI decision platform); 1 billion health records; no revenue on the page"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Health Connect (healthcare integration engine); no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.05B. Share = $0.05B / $10.2B = 0.49%. Explicit range $0.02B to $0.15B (0.196% to 1.47%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.125,"central":0.375,"high":1.25,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.intersystems.com/","title":"InterSystems","publisher":"InterSystems","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"InterSystems IRIS data platform, Health Connect (healthcare integration engine), Data Studio, Supply Chain Orchestrator (AI decision platform); 1 billion health records; no revenue on the page"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Data Studio and Supply Chain Orchestrator (AI decision platform); no revenue split. Judgment of about $0.03B. Share = $0.03B / $8B = 0.375%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.125% to 1.25%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.intersystems.com/","title":"InterSystems","publisher":"InterSystems","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No observability product is listed"}}},"screening":{"databases":{"levelLow":3,"levelHigh":5},"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"baselineRevenueUsd":{"low":939000000,"central":939000000,"high":939000000,"unit":"USD","basis":"Annualised revenue in the card's four functions, US dollars (5LayerCake estimate)","period":"Latest, annualised (mid-2026)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/","title":"Merv Adrian (LinkedIn): post on InterSystems' analyst event and Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue","publisher":"Merv Adrian (BARC Fellow), LinkedIn post reporting Gartner's 2025 DBMS revenue","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"Gartner 2025 DBMS figure for InterSystems ($845M), extended to mid-2026"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 sum of the dollar values behind this company's share observations (databases $0.859B + integration $0.05B + context $0.03B = $0.939B), not the company's total revenue. InterSystems has no public revenue."},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0abb784d48fd23e4f7e82a5fe2e4cabe0d29a18d50b40e1951206a8a64e2701e"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"0abb784d48fd23e4f7e82a5fe2e4cabe0d29a18d50b40e1951206a8a64e2701e"}}},"solarwinds":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"solarwinds","name":"SolarWinds","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.solarwinds.com/","title":"SolarWinds","publisher":"SolarWinds Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"SolarWinds' database products (Database Performance Analyzer, SQL Sentry) monitor other databases; it sells no database"}},"integration-streaming":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.solarwinds.com/","title":"SolarWinds","publisher":"SolarWinds Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No data-integration product"}},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.solarwinds.com/","title":"SolarWinds","publisher":"SolarWinds Corporation","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No catalog or decision product"}},"observability":{"low":1.5789,"central":2.6316,"high":4.7368,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"FY2024 revenue grown to mid-2026, observability share (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.solarwinds.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/solarwinds-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2024-results","title":"SolarWinds Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results","publisher":"SolarWinds Corporation","publishedDate":"2025-02-12","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Full-year 2024 total revenue $796.9M (+5%), 94% recurring; total ARR $729.0M (+7%); subscription ARR $311.7M (+34%); no split between observability and service management"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Anchor: SolarWinds reported full-year 2024 revenue of $796.9M (+5%) and total ARR of $729.0M (release of 2025-02-12, opened); it has been private since April 2025 (Channel Insider). The release gives no split between observability and service management. Arithmetic: $0.797B grown about 5% a year for 1.5 years = $0.86B, of which about 55% is counted as observability and monitoring = $0.47B, rounded to $0.5B; the 55% is a judgment (the rest is service desk and incident response). Share = $0.5B / $19B = 2.63%. Explicit range $0.3B to $0.9B (1.58% to 4.74%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"082f1e31963e31ab333d32697994bd4bd200c9431e0cf72ab61b30db51814638"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"082f1e31963e31ab333d32697994bd4bd200c9431e0cf72ab61b30db51814638"}}},"fivetran":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"fivetran","name":"Fivetran (with dbt Labs)","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.fivetran.com/","title":"Fivetran","publisher":"Fivetran Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Data movement platform; no database product"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":6.3725,"central":6.3725,"high":6.3725,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"ARR (October 2025) grown to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://www.fivetran.com/press/fivetran-and-dbt-labs-unite-to-set-the-standard-for-open-data-infrastructure-2025","title":"Fivetran and dbt Labs Unite to Set the Standard for Open Data Infrastructure","publisher":"Fivetran Inc.","publishedDate":"2025-10-13","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"The combined company will be 'approaching $600M in annual recurring revenue'; all-stock merger signed and approved by both boards, closing subject to conditions"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Anchor: Fivetran and dbt Labs said the combined company would be 'approaching $600M' ARR (press release of 2025-10-13, opened; the merger was signed, closing subject to conditions, and the register treats dbt Labs as part of Fivetran). Arithmetic: $0.6B x about 1.08 for growth over the following eight months = $0.65B. ARR is not revenue, so this is a judgment. Share = $0.65B / $10.2B = 6.37%. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.fivetran.com/","title":"Fivetran","publisher":"Fivetran Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"The page describes governance of data movement, not a catalog or decision product"}},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://www.fivetran.com/","title":"Fivetran","publisher":"Fivetran Inc.","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No observability product is listed"}}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"3074e61820fdf8ef4910d7a576915e05a5b542a90088066c72c14a2ef3971728"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"3074e61820fdf8ef4910d7a576915e05a5b542a90088066c72c14a2ef3971728"}}},"cribl":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"cribl","name":"Cribl","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://sacra.com/c/cribl/","title":"Cribl revenue, valuation and funding","publisher":"Sacra (research firm)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T4","locator":"Telemetry pipelines, search and lake; not sold as a database"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.2941,"central":0.9804,"high":2.451,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"ARR (end-2025) estimate, pipeline share","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://sacra.com/c/cribl/","title":"Cribl revenue, valuation and funding","publisher":"Sacra (research firm)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"ARR $117M (end-2023), $200M (end-2024), $305M (end-2025) and about $390M in August 2026 (Sacra estimate); Stream, Edge, Search and Lake products; 145% net revenue retention"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Anchor: Sacra estimates Cribl's ARR at $305M at end-2025 ($200M at end-2024; the company says in an announcement that it surpassed $300 million in ARR in 2025, up from $200 million in December 2024: Cribl announcement as published by FinancialIT, 12 February 2026, https://financialit.net/news/artificial-intelligence/cribl-surpasses-300-million-arr-powering-essential-infrastructure-ai, opened 23 October 2026). Cribl Stream and Edge route and transform telemetry; about a third of $0.3B = $0.1B counted as data movement. Share = $0.1B / $10.2B = 0.98%. Explicit range $0.03B to $0.25B (0.294% to 2.45%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://sacra.com/c/cribl/","title":"Cribl revenue, valuation and funding","publisher":"Sacra (research firm)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T4","locator":"Stream, Edge, Search and Lake are telemetry products; no catalog or decision product"}},"observability":{"low":0.6316,"central":1.4211,"high":2.1053,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"ARR (end-2025) estimate, observability share","periodEnd":"2025-12-31","source":{"url":"https://sacra.com/c/cribl/","title":"Cribl revenue, valuation and funding","publisher":"Sacra (research firm)","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"ARR $117M (end-2023), $200M (end-2024), $305M (end-2025) and about $390M in August 2026 (Sacra estimate); Stream, Edge, Search and Lake products; 145% net revenue retention"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Anchor: Sacra's ARR of $305M at end-2025; about 70% ($0.21B) is counted as observability and the rest as security data, and grown about 25% to mid-2026 = $0.27B (Sacra's August 2026 estimate of $390M is flagged by the page itself and sets the high end). Dash0 lists Cribl among its observability vendors. Share = $0.27B / $19B = 1.42%. Explicit range $0.12B to $0.4B (0.632% to 2.11%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"7331353ffe761da8749fe86e6d48dca8c6010174ba5c27a53db3831218c227bf"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"7331353ffe761da8749fe86e6d48dca8c6010174ba5c27a53db3831218c227bf"}}},"boomi":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"boomi","name":"Boomi","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://boomi.com/","title":"Boomi","publisher":"Boomi, LP","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Integration and data-management platform; no database product"}},"integration-streaming":{"low":1.9608,"central":4.3137,"high":7.3529,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Recurring revenue (CEO statements, 2024 and September 2026), integration share, mid-2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/steve-lucas-boomi-ai-accounts-payable-tnw-podcast","title":"'10 times more work before 10 times less': Boomi CEO Steve Lucas on AI","publisher":"The Next Web","publishedDate":"2026-10-22","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"CEO Steve Lucas told TNW 'Boomi is approaching $1bn in recurring revenue' and that revenue has tripled since he joined in 2022; more than 30,000 companies; interview at HumanX, Amsterdam, 24 September 2026"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Boomi is private and publishes no financial statements, so the anchor is two statements by its CEO (company statements, T2), both opened 23 October 2026. (1) SiliconANGLE, 21 January 2024 (https://siliconangle.com/2024/01/21/boomi-ceo-absolute-predator-mode/): Boomi 'will reach the $500 million recurring revenue mark this year' and is growing more than 20% annually; this is a 2024 target, not an achieved figure. Taken as $0.5B at end-2024 and grown 20% a year to mid-2026: 0.5 x 1.2^1.5 = $0.66B. (2) The Next Web, 22 October 2026 (interview with CEO Steve Lucas, 24 September 2026): 'Boomi is approaching $1bn in recurring revenue' (the article does not use the term ARR). The two do not agree: faster growth than 20% would lift the first, and 'approaching' may round the second up. Total recurring revenue at mid-2026 is taken as $0.8B, with a range of $0.65B to $1.0B. Boomi's home page (https://boomi.com/, opened 23 October 2026) lists Data Integration, Data Transformation, Data Orchestration, CDC Replication, Event Streams, Managed File Transfer, B2B/EDI Management, Task Automation and API Management among its products, with no revenue split. Judgment: about 55% of the total is counted as data integration and streaming (the rest is API management, B2B/EDI and automation), range 30% to 75%. Central: $0.8B x 55% = $0.44B; share = $0.44B / $10.2B = 4.31%. Explicit range $0.2B to $0.75B ($0.65B x 30% to $1.0B x 75%; 1.96% to 7.35%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.375,"central":1,"high":2.5,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Recurring revenue (CEO statements, 2024 and September 2026), context share, mid-2026 (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/steve-lucas-boomi-ai-accounts-payable-tnw-podcast","title":"'10 times more work before 10 times less': Boomi CEO Steve Lucas on AI","publisher":"The Next Web","publishedDate":"2026-10-22","accessedDate":"2026-10-23","tier":"T5","locator":"CEO Steve Lucas told TNW 'Boomi is approaching $1bn in recurring revenue' and that revenue has tripled since he joined in 2022; more than 30,000 companies; interview at HumanX, Amsterdam, 24 September 2026"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Same anchor as the integration part: total recurring revenue of about $0.8B at mid-2026 (range $0.65B to $1.0B) from two CEO statements, SiliconANGLE 21 January 2024 (a 2024 target of $500 million, growth above 20%) and The Next Web 22 October 2026 ('approaching $1bn in recurring revenue'); the arithmetic is in the integration note. Boomi's home page (https://boomi.com/, opened 23 October 2026) lists Data Hub (master data), Meta Hub, Knowledge Hub and Agent Context in its Data Management group; no revenue split is published. Judgment: about 10% of the total, $0.08B. Share = $0.08B / $8B = 1.0%. Explicit range $0.03B to $0.2B ($0.65B x 5% to $1.0B x 20%; 0.375% to 2.5%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://boomi.com/","title":"Boomi","publisher":"Boomi, LP","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No dedicated observability product"}}},"screening":{"integration-streaming":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3},"context-decision":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"4d8ffe7bb9e9eefb6658abe7ad7a62addf06a8eac4cc3642a26e78befc7239cc"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"4d8ffe7bb9e9eefb6658abe7ad7a62addf06a8eac4cc3642a26e78befc7239cc"}}},"grafana-labs":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"grafana-labs","name":"Grafana Labs","kind":"private","commercialActivityVerified":true,"shares":{"databases":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://grafana.com/products/","title":"Grafana Labs products","publisher":"Grafana Labs","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"Grafana Cloud is an observability platform; no standalone database product is named (Database Observability monitors other databases)"}},"integration-streaming":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://grafana.com/products/","title":"Grafana Labs products","publisher":"Grafana Labs","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No data-integration product is named (Adaptive Telemetry filters telemetry inside the platform)"}},"context-decision":{"participates":false,"evidence":{"url":"https://grafana.com/products/","title":"Grafana Labs products","publisher":"Grafana Labs","publishedDate":"undated","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T2","locator":"No catalog or decision product"}},"observability":{"low":2.1053,"central":2.6316,"high":3.4211,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"ARR (September 2025) grown to mid-2026","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://grafana.com/press/2025/09/30/grafana-labs-surpasses-400m-arr-and-7000-customers-gains-new-investors-to-accelerate-global-expansion/","title":"Grafana Labs Surpasses $400M ARR and 7,000 Customers, Gains New Investors to Accelerate Global Expansion","publisher":"Grafana Labs","publishedDate":"2025-09-30","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"Annual recurring revenue above $400 million at 2025-09-30; more than 7,000 organisations; a secondary transaction"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Anchor: Grafana Labs said ARR was above $400M at 2025-09-30 (press release, opened); Dash0 used a $250M baseline in December 2024 and called it likely higher today. Arithmetic: $0.4B grown about 25% over nine months = $0.5B, a judgment because the growth since September 2025 is not public. Share = $0.5B / $19B = 2.63%. Explicit range $0.4B to $0.65B (2.11% to 3.42%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://dash0.com/blog/rethinking-the-observability-market-my-usd12b-estimate-for-2024 ."}},"screening":{"observability":{"levelLow":1,"levelHigh":3}},"checks":{"sourceSupport":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"8b85c890dce92c7fcb43329671d492ad65be3fc92b9875a2d2d897ac99873814"},"consistency":{"by":"Claude check pass, Sonnet 5.5","date":"2026-10-23","passed":true,"sha256":"8b85c890dce92c7fcb43329671d492ad65be3fc92b9875a2d2d897ac99873814"}}},"bytedance":{"schema":"5lc-index-inputs/1","key":"applications-data-platforms","entityId":"bytedance","name":"ByteDance (Volcano Engine)","kind":"unit","commercialActivityVerified":false,"shares":{"databases":{"low":0.0338,"central":0.2027,"high":0.6081,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://docs.byteplus.com/fr/docs/VikingDB/Architecture","title":"VikingDB architecture","publisher":"BytePlus (ByteDance)","publishedDate":"2026-03-29","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"VikingDB is a vector database system on BytePlus cloud infrastructure with embedding, index management, retrieval, elastic scheduling and monitoring; no customer or usage statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Judgment, no revenue is disclosed: Volcano Engine's ByteHouse and VikingDB (VikingDB's documentation page, opened, shows a live vector database on BytePlus cloud with no customer figures). Anchor: Tencent Cloud's estimated database revenue of $1.75B at mid-2026 (this sublayer's Tencent file); ByteDance's cloud is younger and smaller, so about one-sixth of it = $0.3B, with a range from $0.05B to about half of Tencent's. Share = $0.3B / $148B = 0.203%. Explicit range $0.05B to $0.9B (0.0338% to 0.608%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $148B a year at the mid-2026 run-rate: Gartner's 2025 DBMS market of about $138B x 1.075 (half a year of growth at about 15% a year). The $138B is a 5LayerCake derivation: the $119.7B DBMS market that a TechTarget content-hub page (sponsored by AWS, 15 July 2026) attributes to Gartner, grown about 15%. No opened source gives Gartner's 2025 total (gartner.com was not fetched); Merv Adrian's post on Gartner's 2025 ranks has Databricks' revenue up 36.1% to $1.6B while its share rose from 1.0% to 1.2%, which implies market growth near 13% (the rounded shares allow roughly 9% to 18%), and a total of $128B to $139B. The card's weight rests on IDC's narrower $105B for 2025 (IDC: $93B in 2024 growing to about $169B in 2029, as quoted in the card); under a recorded method decision the sourced total of $148B is this part's denominator, the weights are unchanged, and the discrepancy is recorded for the quarterly card review. Inputs (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.techtarget.com/hub/asset/1784143272_204 ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mervadrian/ ."},"integration-streaming":{"low":0.098,"central":0.2941,"high":0.9804,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://docs.byteplus.com/fr/docs/VikingDB/Architecture","title":"VikingDB architecture","publisher":"BytePlus (ByteDance)","publishedDate":"2026-03-29","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"VikingDB is a vector database system on BytePlus cloud infrastructure with embedding, index management, retrieval, elastic scheduling and monitoring; no customer or usage statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Judgment: data integration services in Volcano Engine; no revenue disclosed. Anchor: Tencent's integration estimate of $0.06B, halved. Share = $0.03B / $10.2B = 0.294%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.1B (0.098% to 0.98%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $10.2B a year at mid-2026: Gartner's data-integration tools market ($5.9B in 2024, +9.8%, 8.1% a year forecast to 2029; Blocks & Files, 12 December 2025) grown to about $6.9B, plus event streaming of about $2.3B (the card's $2.0B estimate for 2025, grown), plus about $1.0B for application-integration products (MuleSoft-type, Workato, Boomi, SnapLogic) that sit outside Gartner's data-integration tools market but inside this card's function. Gartner's top four vendors hold 44.5% of the $5.9B (about $2.6B). 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2025/12/12/data-integration-market-set-for-slower-growth-says-gartner/1720515 ."},"context-decision":{"low":0.025,"central":0.125,"high":0.625,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://docs.byteplus.com/fr/docs/VikingDB/Architecture","title":"VikingDB architecture","publisher":"BytePlus (ByteDance)","publishedDate":"2026-03-29","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"VikingDB is a vector database system on BytePlus cloud infrastructure with embedding, index management, retrieval, elastic scheduling and monitoring; no customer or usage statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Judged negligible: no catalog or decision product found. Share = $0.01B / $8B = 0.125%. Explicit range $0.002B to $0.05B (0.025% to 0.625%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $8.0B a year at mid-2026: Palantir's commercial segment at $3.78B (Q2 2026 $945.4M x 4, Palantir 10-Q) plus about $3.8B for all other registered vendors (the sum of the estimates in this sublayer's inputs) plus about $0.4B for vendors outside the register. The card's own 2025 market of $2.97B predates Palantir's 2026 growth. Palantir's Government revenue counts in Vertical AI. 5LayerCake derivation. Input (opened 22 October 2026): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/000132165526000041/pltr-20260630.htm ."},"observability":{"low":0.0526,"central":0.1842,"high":1.0526,"unit":"percent","basis":"Share of the function's worldwide annualised revenue run-rate in US dollars (latest month × 12 or latest quarter × 4)","period":"Q2 2026 annualised (estimate)","periodEnd":"2026-06-30","source":{"url":"https://docs.byteplus.com/fr/docs/VikingDB/Architecture","title":"VikingDB architecture","publisher":"BytePlus (ByteDance)","publishedDate":"2026-03-29","accessedDate":"2026-10-22","tier":"T5","locator":"VikingDB is a vector database system on BytePlus cloud infrastructure with embedding, index management, retrieval, elastic scheduling and monitoring; no customer or usage statistics"},"note":"5LayerCake T5 estimate. Judgment: APM and log services in Volcano Engine; VikingDB's documentation mentions monitoring only as a feature. Anchor: Tencent's observability estimate of $0.2B at one-sixth, as for databases (0.2 / 6 = $0.033B), rounded to $0.035B; the screening value was $0.08B, which this arithmetic does not support. Share = $0.035B / $19B = 0.184%. Explicit range $0.01B to $0.2B (0.0526% to 1.05%), because no source pins the figure down. Market total (denominator) about $19.0B a year at mid-2026: the card's central 2025 market of $16.6B (Dash0's $12B for 2024 grown 20% a year, averaged with Gartner's $39B 2029 forecast taken back) grown another half year at 20% gives $18.2B, rounded up to $19B to cover AI-evaluation spending. 5LayerCake derivation. 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