Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change.
A whole crop of new contenders are now vying for a piece of this key enterprise market, and while their approaches are diverse, most share one thing in common: a razor-sharp focus on big data.
Much of what’s driving this new proliferation of alternatives is what’s commonly referred to as the “three V’s” underlying big data: volume, velocity and variety.
Essentially, data today is coming at us faster and in greater volumes than ever before; it’s also more diverse. It’s a new data world, in other words, and traditional relational database management systems weren’t really designed for it.
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