Who Will Win the Database Wars?
- 1. INSIGHTS Presentation Series Who Will Win the Database Wars? Open Source Commercial Ever Increasing # of Of Competitors Relational NoSQL Cloud On Premises
- 2. Who Will Win the Database Wars? Cloud On Premises
- 3. Strengths Weaknesses • Cost savings • Pay as you go • Opex vs Capex • Quick access to innovative technologies • Agility • Scalability • Reduces time-to-market • Most vendors’ strategic direction • Focus on core competencies • Failure is less expensive • Conversion costs • Confusing number of alternatives • Vendor lock in • Security • System visibility – auditing, regulatory compliance • Lack of internal skill sets • Preferred tools may not work • Required to “trust” a third party service provider • SLA enforcement • Leverage - You become just another customer • Integration with on premises – No DB is an island Cloud DBMS
- 4. Strengths Weaknesses • Leverage hardware and software investments • Security • Regulatory compliance • System visibility • Lower reliance on third parties • Accessibility • Interaction with other systems • Integration with existing tools • Staff already trained • Costs • Opex vs Capex • Limits Quick acess to innovative technologies • Agility • Scalability • Time-to-market • Strategic direction is cloud • Focus on backend infrastructure support • Failure is more expensive On Premises DBMS
- 5. RDX Recommends Hybrid Architectures Will Win the Cloud vs On Premises Competition (for now) Winner – NEITHER 100% App Code Transportability 100% Database Feature Match
- 7. Who Will Win the Database Wars? The Battle for Cloud Computing
- 8. Strengths Weaknesses • Most mature provider of cloud services • Huge customer base – X times other vendors • Large investment in infrastructure • Robust provisioning and administration tools • Able to build entire application • Elastic compute • Breadth of architectures (EC2, RDS) • Breadth of database products • RDS – Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL… • Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB • CLOUD ONLY • Customer support gets mixed reviews • Confusing array of options, features and settings • Amazon databases (Aurora, DyanamoDB) features and functionality limited when compared to Microsoft and Oracle • Complex pricing
- 9. Strengths Weaknesses • HYBRID CLOUDS • Customer loyalty • Huge customer base • Large investment in infrastructure • Environment rivals Amazon in features and functionality • Database features and functionality • Large number of security certifications • Able to build entire application • Pricing is simpler – when compared to Amazon • Multi-product support • Focused on the Microsoft tech stack • Running non-Microsoft DBs in Azure cloud services can be challenging • Limited product offerings available • Support has received mixed reviews
- 10. Strengths Weaknesses • HYBRID CLOUDS • Customer loyalty • Huge customer base • Database features and functionality • Large investment in infrastructure • Committed to cloud - Declared war on Amazon • Same vendor that eclipsed the entrenched leader – IBM DB2 • Deep pockets for building and acquisitions (Logfire, Netsuite, Opower, Crosswise) • Strong focus on cloud migration services • Entered later than Amazon and Microsoft • Architecture and offering still maturing • Limited product offerings available • Traditional higher Oracle costs • Predatory licensing practices • Cloud licensing is confusing (no change here)
- 11. RDX Recommends Amazon’s Breadth and Depth of Offerings Microsoft and Oracle – Hybrid Environments Amazon #1 Microsoft #2 Oracle #3 Microsoft #1 Oracle #2 Amazon #3 Cloud Hybrid
- 12. Who Will Win the Database Wars? Industry Standards Everyone Else
- 14. Strengths Weaknesses • Database features and functionality • Customer loyalty • Huge customer base • Access to DBA and developer skill sets • Product maturity • Robust utilities • Vendor support • Most vendors have robust cloud strategies • Strong third-party software provider adoption (applications, tools and utilities) • Costs • Flexibility • Scalability • Predatory licensing practices Traditional Vendors
- 15. Strengths Weaknesses • Cost • Custom tailor DBMS to meet application needs • Scalability • Flexibility • Ability to store different types of data • Many different architectures to choose from • Access to DBA and developer skill sets • Training and startup costs • Limited customer base (except Amazon) • Access to DBA and developer skill sets • Product maturity • Utilities • Vendor support varies greatly • Niche solutions (except Amazon) • Limited third-party software provider adoption (applications, tools and utilities) Increasing Number of Competitors
- 16. RDX Recommends Standardization vs Best of Breed Winner – Database Consumer Ease of Ownership vs Capabilities
- 17. Who Will Win the Database Wars? Relational DBMS NoSQL DBMS
- 18. Single View Sensor Data Biometrics Radiology Videos, Images Weather Data Catalogs Content Management Geospatial Social Data • IDG: Unstructured data is growing at the rate of 62% per year • IDG: By 2022, 93% of all data in the digital universe will be unstructured • Gartner: Data volume is set to grow 800% over the next 5 years and 80% of it will reside as unstructured data Structured Structured Structured Structured RDBMS
- 20. Cost effectively handle large volumes of data and/or users Vertical Horizontal
- 21. Strengths Weaknesses • Dynamic schema flexibility • Faster development times • Total cost of ownership • Easily stores semi, non and fully structured data • Horizontal and vertical scalability • Geographic replication and data distribution • Easier to achieve high performance accessing large volumes of data • Custom tailor environment to data storage and processing needs • Cost effective clustering • Crude transaction management and locking mechanisms (BASE vs ACID) • Limited cloud offerings • Vendor support (or lack thereof) • Data is often denormalized leading to duplicate updates • Weak access languages • No inherent data integrity enforcement mechanisms NoSQL DBMS
- 22. Strengths Weaknesses • ACID • Transaction management • Sophisticated locking and latching • Power of the SQL Language – Two-phase commits, foreign key constraints, joins, subqueries, integrated aggregations, complex business rule enforcement • Product maturity and strong vendor support • Robust utilities • Most vendors have robust cloud strategies • Strong third-party software provider adoption (applications, tools and utilities) • Scalability can be expensive • Data normalization can impact performance • Schemas are not flexible • Not all data fits neatly into rows and columns • Geographic distribution can be complex Relational DBMS
- 23. RDX Recommends Winner – Relational Vendors Will Become Multi-Model The larger relational vendors will attempt to co-opt any NoSQL technology that challenges their dominant role in the industry As they identify offerings as tangible threats, their strategy will be to ensure that the technologies used by those vendors become a component of, not a replacement for, their traditional database products
- 24. RDX Recommends NoSQL Survivors Niche NoSQL vendors with limited market appeal and those that have complex processing architectures will be less attractive to their larger competitors NoSQL DBMSs that consist of a unique storage model that is also open source will allow them to be viewed as attractive, cost-effective alternatives to commercial products
- 25. Who Will Win the Database Wars? Open Source DBMS Commercial DBMS
- 26. Strengths Weaknesses • Lower up-front licensing costs • Lower maintenance costs • Growing feature set and increasing functionality • Vendors stepping in to provide 24/7 product support and maintenance • Vendor support quality can range the spectrum • Access to DBA and developer skill sets • Still can’t compare their features to commercial offerings – especially for high availability, scalability, data warehouses • Third-party software provider adoption (applications, tools and utilities) • Conversion costs • Interaction with other DB systems Open Source DBMS
- 27. Strengths Weaknesses • Strong vendor support • Robust features and functionality • Most vendors have strong cloud strategies • Strong third-party software provider adoption (applications, tools and utilities) • Access to DBA and developer skill sets • Higher up-front licensing costs • Higher maintenance costs • Vendors’s licensing practices often become predatory • Complex to administer Commercial DBMS
- 29. RDX Recommends Commercial Products Win - For Now But Will Lose Market Share at an Alarming Rate (alarming for them anyway)
- 30. RDX Recommends Evaluate OSDBMS Offerings as Potential Replacements for: • Low risk applications • Applications that don’t need all of the functionality of a commercial product • COTS applications
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