Eliminating Database Sprawl, Part 1: How to Escape a Slow-moving Car Crash

Companies often aren't aware they're heading towards database sprawl, a complex issue that can lead to high maintenance databases, security/compliance issues, and increased costs. Database sprawl occurs when multiple tightly coupled applications are developed with separate databases, leading to data duplication, inconsistency, and integration challenges. This can result in slowed development, increased administration complexity, and impacts on service level agreements (SLAs). To correct this, companies need a modern database platform that combines transactions and analytics into a single unified platform, such as a translytic database, multi-model platform, hybrid cloud databases, or edge databases. Consolidating database silos can also improve efficiency, reduce costs, and future-proof the database. By adopting such a platform, companies can eliminate high license cost databases, minimize latency, and achieve faster time to value.