Multi-Database Shops Now The Norm
datanami, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
The number of organizations adopting multiple databases went up by 17 percentage points over the past three years, increasing the complexity of data management and testing organizations' capability to acquire the requisite skills to manage the databases effectively, according to new survey released by Redgate.
In 2020, 62% of the organizations surveyed by Redgate used two or more databases. By 2023, that number had increased to 79%, and 29% of them use five or more database, the company says in its State of the Database Landscape report, which it released today.
Redgate encountered 16 different databases among the 3,849 professionals it says took the company's survey last year. The top databases were Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres, the company says.
The proliferation of multiple databases has various implications, including increasing the number and type of skills required to keep the databases well-maintained and running, Redgate says. Increased complexity was the number one impact of the jump in multi-database shops, according to the company's survey, followed by skill diversification, flexibility, data migration, and data security concerns.