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… topic, it has had no input from any company’s marketing or sales department. 

It is usually a good thing if the Magic Quadrant covers a topic that is real. But Gartner appears to have different criteria for creating a Magic Quadrant, which is enough vendors willing to pay for it.
This is a repeat of the transalytical database concept, which we cover in the article How to Understand What is a Transalytical Database, this time pushed by Forrester rather than Gartner. After Forrester and SAP declared this non-existent category paid Forrester to say that SAP’s HANA …

… a consensus forecast from people with decades of experience working with Gartner on the vendor side and understanding their revenue model very well. This is where the $150 million number came from. The number may be $100 million. But in either case, there is a very substantial amount of money flowing from SAP every year, and its effect is evident in how Gartner repeats SAP’s marketing and sales literature. For instance, how they were entirely inaccurate in their analysis around HANA, as we cover in the article How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On HANA. And their repeated inaccuracies (always