Accelerating Enterprise Digital Transformation with a Next Generation Database

Chapter 2. Attributes of Next Generation Databases

Chapter 1 outlined the needs of the modern enterprise and the digital transformation required to drive business growth and obtain and maintain a competitive advantage. Some key elements of that digital transformation include achieving agility at the business level, gaining and capitalizing on real-time insights from data, and deploying intelligent services throughout the enterprise.

This chapter puts those factors in context with a close-up examination of new database technology to help achieve the digital transformation. New database platforms need to have specific attributes to help the organization grow and move forward. The chapter begins with additional information on why it’s important to consider new factors when evaluating database platforms.

Why Are New Attributes Necessary?

Business needs for data have evolved in the last several years. The data itself has evolved and grown; in many cases, the data has grown exponentially. Measures of performance, scalability, reliability, and interoperability have changed significantly in the last 10 years. Many times, those measures are simply inadequate when working with multiterabyte databases. Virtualization and cloud computing have also created opportunities for organizations to increase and enhance their usage of data. For example, the ability to capture and then process terabytes of data no longer requires extensive, internally deployed computing resources; instead, capture ...