Survey Results: NoSQL Adoption for San Francisco Bay Area Amazon Web Services Users

In a survey conducted at the 2017 AWS Summit in San Francisco, researchers gathered insights from 117 developers about their adoption of NoSQL databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The survey revealed that over 90% of respondents use MySQL in production, with MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Apache Cassandra also being popular choices. Docker is utilized by more than 50% of participants in production, and 63% use various container solutions, highlighting the growing trend of containerization in database management. The primary challenges faced by developers include latency, management, and scalability, often due to the resource-intensive nature of Java-based NoSQL technologies. The survey also identified activity tracking, heavy read/write operations, and time series as the leading use cases for NoSQL databases, emphasizing the need for real-time data processing across multiple locations. The findings serve as a benchmark for understanding the criteria and results of NoSQL adoption among AWS users in the tech-centric San Francisco Bay Area.