Tessell Recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" for Cloud DBMS, for the Second Consecutive Year
For the second year running, Tessell is recognized in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems, rated 4.6 out of 5 by verified enterprise customers. What matters most is who left the reviews: teams in banking, insurance, and government running systems they cannot afford to break.
- Tessell is included in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems for the second consecutive year.
- Verified enterprise customers rated the platform 4.6 out of 5 overall, and 4.4 or higher across every category Gartner measures (Product Capabilities 4.6, Sales 4.6, Deployment 4.5, Support 4.4).
- The reviews come from practitioners in regulated, high-stakes environments: banking, insurance, government, and energy.
- Read the verified reviews and download the complimentary report to see the feedback in full.
What Banks, Insurers, and Government Teams Say About Running Databases on Tessell
Tessell's second year in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud DBMS.
Gartner Peer Insights
Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and ratings platform designed for enterprise software and services decision makers. Reviews are organized by products in live markets that align to Gartner markets, defined as Magic Quadrant or Market Guide-defined markets, or GPI-defined markets that are opened at the discretion of the GPI team and do not require insights published to open the space on Peer Insights “
“The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that applies a methodology (documented here) to aggregated Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews in a market to provide an overall perspective for IT decision makers. This aggregated peer perspective, along with the individual detailed reviews, can also complement analyst insights such as Magic Quadrants and Market Guides. It can play a key role in your buying process, as it focuses on direct peer experiences of buying, implementing and operating a solution
A database is the one part of the stack most companies are afraid to touch. It holds the data everything else depends on, it has usually been running for years, and the cost of getting a migration wrong is measured in outages and audit findings, not story points. So when an enterprise evaluates a new database platform, it is not really shopping for features. It is trying to answer one question: can I trust this with the thing I cannot afford to break?
That question is almost impossible to answer from a vendor website. “Digital-first competitors are accelerating ahead with cloud-native data platforms, making modernization urgent for organizations that want to stay relevant. This note guides data and analytics leaders to learn from ratings and reviews by their peers shared on Gartner Peer Insights.”
For the second year running, Tessell is in that report, rated 4.6 out of 5 by verified customers and 4.4 or higher across every category Gartner measures.
We are proud of the score. But the number we keep coming back to is not the rating. It is who wrote the reviews.
We believe the reviews came from the hardest rooms in the enterprise
The reviewers work in banking, insurance, government, energy, and retail. If you have ever shipped software into those environments, you know what that means. These are the teams with change-advisory boards, disaster-recovery mandates, and regulators who ask hard questions. They do not adopt infrastructure because it is interesting, and they do not leave public praise casually. In our opinion a strong review from a bank's platform team is worth more than a stack of five-star ratings from low-stakes deployments, because it was earned under real constraints.
Here is how one of them, an engineer at a bank, described it:
"My overall experience with Tessell has been excellent. The platform is intuitive, reliable and designed with real-world data management challenges in mind." — Engineer, Banking
A government team pointed to the moment that usually decides these evaluations, the proof of concept:
"A great end-to-end experience. Tessell offered a free POC to test the main functionality including HA and failover scenarios." — IT Manager, Government
And a team running Oracle in the cloud, the workload most enterprises consider untouchable:
"Tessell's Oracle DBaaS in AWS has been a game changer for our organization. The platform makes provisioning, scaling and managing databases significantly easier while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance." — IT Associate, Software
One signal inside a bigger picture
This feedback lines up with what we have seen across the business. Fortune 500 companies, global banks, and government agencies, including CSX, Moody's, Citizens Bank, and Forbes, run mission-critical data on Tessell today. They report 25 to 50 percent lower total cost of ownership, provisioning up to 10x faster, and availability up to 99.99 percent. The Voice of the Customer report is one independent signal inside that trajectory. As more enterprises move more of their critical data onto the platform, more of them are willing to say so publicly, and that is exactly the kind of proof that is impossible to manufacture.
We read every review, the praise and the pushback alike, because a roadmap shaped by production users is exactly how the we believe we received this recognition in the first place.
Read it for yourself
If you are weighing a database platform, we would rather you hear from the people running one than from us. Read the verified reviews and download the full Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems report below. And if you are already a Tessell customer, your review helps the next team make a decision they cannot easily undo. We would be grateful for it.
Gartner® 2026 Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems, Peer Community Contributor, 24 April, 2026
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