In 2022, Russian state-owned companies bought domestic database management systems (DBMS) three times more than the previous year, a Postgres Professional study showed.
The company’s specialists analyzed the data from the EIS State Procurement platform and found that after the departure of foreign sellers, the total volume of purchases almost halved, from 5.4 to 2.9 billion of rubles.
According to open data, in 2021, Russian solutions accounted for about 60 contracts. In 2022, against the background of sanctions, their number increased to more than 200. At the same time, the cost of software solutions increased from 690 million to 2 billion rubles.
As Postgres Pro Co-Founder and Deputy CEO Ivan Panchenko specified, 55 contracts with foreign vendors are mainly related to technical support.
With the departure of foreign sellers, the total volume of purchases in value terms decreased by 46%, from 5.4 to 2.9 billion rubles.
In May of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that all critical information infrastructure facilities must switch to home software and equipment. This must be done before January 1, 2025.
Thus, in 2022, the shares of DBMS-providing companies on the Russian market were redistributed. Previously, the American corporation Oracle dominated, in 2021 state-owned companies signed 84 contracts with Oracle worth about 4 billion rubles. This is 84% of the cost of all contracts for the year, where the purchased DBMS was indicated. Then the top five most popular providers also included Postgres Pro, Tarantool, Microsoft, and Arenadata.
In 2022, Postgres Pro gained the absolute lead by signing 91 contracts worth 1.9 billion rubles.
Ivan Panchenko explained that migrating to another DBMS is a complex and time-consuming process, so Postgres Pro has developed several solutions that make migrating from Oracle easy.
Postgres Professional is a Russian DBMS developer based on PostgreSQL DBMS. The company was founded in 2015, its employees translated all PostgreSQL project documentation into Russian.
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Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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