What is a Converged Database?
Single-purpose Databases vs Converged Database? Don’t you have it clear? Questions? Doubts? Concerns?
It was not clear for me either until recently!
I want to cover the most typical questions, doubts and concerns that we are facing daily basis about Converged Database in this short article.
In this image, we can perceive clearly the feeling of Single-purpose Databases vs Converged Database approach. I hope it helps!
If you are navigating the Internet these days, you can find many different questions and messages about Converged Database.
What is a Converged Database? Whom can get benefit of it or from it? Why should I be aware of Converged Database? And of course, which benefits Converged Database can provide to my business? For named a few of them.
Let’s answer the first two questions:
What is a Converged Database? Whom can get benefit of it or from it?
A Converged Database is a database that has native support for all modern data types, any workload type and the latest development paradigms built into one product.
Converged databases support Spatial & Graph data for geolocation purposes, JSON for document stores, IoT for device connection, Blockchain for secure transaction, In-memory technologies for Real-Time Analytics, Traditional Relational workloads and of course, Machine Learning algorithms to provide deep learning insights.
By providing support for all of these multi data types, a Converged Database can run all sorts of workloads from IoT to Blockchain to Relational and Real-Time Critical Environments and Machine Learning. All of those supported on the most modern multitenant architecture, where every project, application, schema can be allocated in different isolated tenancies if required.
Additionally, Converged Database can handle any development technologies, such as Microservices, Kubernetes, Events, Serverless, REST and much more.
By getting new data models, new workloads and new developers technologies in the same Converged Database, you can mix them in a straightforward way to innovate and create new approaches that you never thought of before.
By mixing the data types, data models in a multitenant architecture, you don’t need to create new databases and/or learn new technologies to support the new developers’ tools. Instead, you just need to manage and maintain one single Converged Database providing simplicity, unify, secure and trustworthy environment.
Why should I be aware of Converged Database? And of course, which benefits Converged Database can provide to my business?
You should be aware of Converged Database as part of a new approach to keep growing your business in a very pragmatic way as Oracle Converged Databases are designed to support all the different technologies that are already in the market and will be supporting the new technologies that are coming at the moment or will come in the future. We adjust our technology to the IT industry always providing the most advance capabilities and functionalities.
The most crucial benefit of using Converged Database is that you don’t need to change or adjust your database systems or applications based on new technologies or capabilities that you would like to use as part of your core business.
Your database will be ready to support any data type, data workload or any new technologies for developers and database administrators. Your database is prepared for the new big thing that will come in the near future, such as Blockchain, IoT, Data Science that went in the past or other new big things that will come soon, and you don’t need to modify or adjust anything, you are ready to innovate with them!
Converged Database Paradigm is nothing more and nothing less than a database that supports natively all modern data types, all workload type and the latest development paradigms built into a multitenant database engine. So take advantage of all the potential that your database can bring to you and your business.
If you want to learn more about Converged Database and which capabilities would be interesting for your business, check this Converged Functionality of Oracle Autonomous Database Workshop and get hands-on experience.
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