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The When, Why & How In Switching To Open Source Databases

Solutions Review, Thursday, February 13th, 2025

For well over a decade, enterprise adoption of open-source database technologies has been on a steady rise.

In fact, as of 2023, over 78 percent of businesses use at least one piece of open-source software in their technology stack. And for the few that don't, it's important to remember that open-source code and components are used in over 90 percent of all software in the world - including proprietary tools.

At this point, it's safe to say that the once-outsider open-source model has gone mainstream. That being said, migrating to open source databases (or any databases, for that matter) is not without its challenges.

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