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What if you could achieve a thousand times increased productivity for your company IT infrastructure? You would probably look like the tech superhero that deserves a huge bonus. But, is that kind of improvement possible? Can you make this a reality soon? The answer is yes and yes, thanks to the internet. And, the changes are happening sooner than you think.
New database companies are competing to provide better data collection and processing solutions. Obviously, the top tech firms get the best toys, or databases. But, as the top firms work with database vendors to develop these advanced solutions, we can expect that technology to eventually trickle down to the rest of enterprise IT users and so on.
What kind of databases are companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon using? They have more data requiring more advanced solutions. NoSQL, considered an umbrella term, is widely understood to stand for Not Only SQL. The larger than enterprise companies are using customized databases that suit specific needs.
Why Use NoSQL?
Instead of using one database for several types of data, these companies are using databases that perform best as a particular data set. More specifically, companies, like Oracle applications, are moving from relational database models to non-relational database models and everything in between. With the evolution of cloud computing, better databases are in demand to utilize the power savings of the cloud.
NoSQL Databases
The next generation databases are all non-relational, distributed open-source and horizontally scalable. This obviously offers a whole slew of advantages for business, in particular. However, many are left wondering how you can find a list of NoSQL databases. Thankfully, there is a website for that. NoSQL-Database is an organization that lists every NoSQL database. These include Core NoSQL systems, object databases, grid and cloud database solutions, XML databases, multimodel databases, multidimensional databases and other wide column store databases. If you need a complete list of NoSQL databases for reference, NoSQL-Database can help you out.
Benefits of NoSQL
Although fitting the right databases to your company’s needs will be challenging, the benefits can far outweigh the costs. You could potentially see a million times improvement from balancing your databases correctly. For example, when an organization decides to optimize a team by moving talent around, there is an initial cost to balance strengths and weaknesses. However, those costs are quickly recovered by a better performing team.
Secondly, teams need to work in dynamic environments. They no longer have long 1 year turnaround times for development. Companies are working in agile frameworks to provide code that can be deployed in days or hours. With NoSQL databases, teams can work quicker and make changes on the fly.
To see the big picture, the graph database is being used. While these big data driven solutions are being used at private technology companies using obfuscated code, the same technology is beginning to come available for free. Many open source solutions are being developed with many of the same capabilities that the largest tech companies had to spend huge investments on.
So, take advantage of the new advancements. The upside potential is plenty for enterprise and corporate companies. If you don’t, you can be sure that the competition will start to take notice. It is hard to keep “FREE” a secret for long.
Are you familiar with NoSQL databases? Do you have a need for better database solutions? Where do you stand on the new technology available? Please let us know your thoughts below.
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