There was a time, not too long ago, when Highway 101 in Silicon Valley was lined with billboards paid for by companies like Oracle and IBM, as they fired salvos in their database wars. But those battles feel like ancient history today. More enterprises are generating massive amounts of data, and they want to harness that data with globally distributed, cloud-based, always-on apps that meet the expectations of users, in real-time. With these new data demands, it’s no longer the old guard enterprise software names once splashed across high-visibility advertising that data-driven enterprises are turning to.Instead, the data-heavy use cases that challenge businesses today are being met by newly emerging open-source, cloud-based database service providers that harness the innovation of the open-source community and remove the operational complexity of running a database.To read this article in full, please click her
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