The Future of Databases

DataStax Co-Founder and CTO Jonathan Ellis predicts that over the next five years, databases will become more self-driving and optimizing, with AI playing a significant role in performance tuning. He also foresees an increase in cloud-native databases, leading to reduced administration efforts. Fully managed platforms are expected to become the norm, while open source software is returning as a pragmatic approach for adoption. The conversation around database hardware will be driven by the cloud, and graph features will likely be integrated into non-graph substrates to offer the best of both worlds.