This audio article was originally published by the Cloud Database Report on March 2, 2022.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant has long served as a proof point of a vendor’s relevance in its respective market. But what about those that don’t make it into the quadrant? Here are my observations about six key players—DataStax, Micro Focus, MongoDB, Neo4j, Yellowbrick Data, and Yugabyte—that were not included in Gartner’s Cloud Database MQ for 2021.

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