01/2022
Data Storage in an Open Source World
Open source databases have been on the scene for a number of years as rapidly-deployable databases at the peripheries of enterprises, serving as testing environments and website back-ends. Lately, however, they have been moving into mission-critical production environments in a big way. Today, an open source database is just as likely to be found behind a bank’s customer relationship management system as it is under the hood of the intensive research center of a university.