Forbes October 8, 2024
Jakub Lamik is the CEO of Redgate Software.
A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was generally one of the big four relational database platforms: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server or PostgreSQL. In 2024, the big four remain the most popular databases in use, in the same order, but there’s been a big change that has largely been hidden behind the scenes.
By 2020, for example, a major database landscape survey from my company, Redgate, showed that only 38% of organizations used one type of database, and in 2023 that fell yet further to 21%. The question is, why? What’s been happening and how did the database landscape become so complicated so quickly? What’s driving...
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