The world of infrastructure is changing rapidly, the way we use and access data is driving significant change in the way we design data infrastructure to deliver at scale, with flexibility, openness and portability.
One such shift is the increasing adoption of open database technology, back in episode 88 I spoke with Patrick Callaghan of Cassandra on this topic. it was a popular episode and the use of such databases is continuing to grow.
With that in mind, I wanted to revisit the topic and take another look at what open source databases mean, what their place in the enterprise is and how to take those first steps to explore the value of open source database in your business.
To help me investigate this topic, I caught up with Peter Zaitsev founder and CEO of Percona, a company who specialises in open source databases. I chatted with Peter a couple of weeks ahead of their Percona Live event in Amsterdam, a 3 day event focussed on the open source database market and how to get the best from it.
In the show we discuss;
*Why an enterprise sees open source differently from a developer.
*How the debate about open source is mirrored by those around public cloud adoption.
*How multi location environments are driving a new model for database adoption.
*Why not all open source DB's are as open as you think.
*If open source provides such flexibility, choice and cost benefits what is stopping enterprise adoption?
*How to overcome resistance and see if open source database can work for you.
*Who are Percona and how do they help people adopt open source databases?
*The Cloud native autonomous database initiative what is it and why the capability to deploy public cloud like flexibility anywhere is important.
I think this technology area is really interesting and its development and adoption continues to grow, Peter provides us with some great insights into Percona's approach and his own experience of adoption of open source database, as well as some of the inhibitors he sees to its adoption.
Thanks for listening.
If you have any comments, an idea for or would like to appear on the show then drop me an email to
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Full show notes are here :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1HO