Databases are an essential part of doing business in the digital world, but not every organization is achieving success with them. In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that they’ve been held back by legacy database technologies — specifically relational databases systems. Relational databases weren’t designed with newer apps or the cloud in mind, the respondents said — making them sometimes difficult to adapt and work with. According to the survey, 72% of companies believe their reliance on relational databases — including architectures built around them — limits their ability to implement digital transformation projects.
Unsurprisingly, companies are increasingly embracing alternatives to relational databases, like NoSQL. Driven by a lack of sc …
