The world’s leading research and advisory company, Gartner Inc., released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems on November 23, 2020. Tencent was placed as a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, “The practice of data management, founded on DBMSs, continues to shift rapidly to the cloud — a move that is producing an increasingly complex landscape of vendors and offerings. This Magic Quadrant will help data and analytics leaders make the right choices in a complex market.” The technical evaluation for this report took place between June 2019 to June 2020. Evaluation criteria include Ability to Execute (Product/Service, Overall Viability, Sales Execution/Pricing, Market Responsiveness/Record, Market Execution, Customer Experience, and Operations) and Completeness of Vision (Market Understanding, Marketing Strategy, Sales Strategy, Offering (Product) Strategy, Business Model, Vertical/Industry Strategy, Innovation, and Geographic Strategy). Happy Te...