What Are the Most Important Elements of Databases?
The most important elements of the database depend upon the application at hand.
To gather insights for DZone’s Data Persistence Research Guide, scheduled for release in March, 2016, we spoke to 16 executives, from 13 companies, who develop databases and manage persistent data in their own company or help clients do so.
What we learned foremost is the importance of storing data in some durable form to maintain asset properties with the ability to access it. There’s a tradeoff between speed, scale, and usability. Ultimately databases must be consistent, available, and able to tolerate partitions.
Here’s what they said when we asked, “What do you see as the most important elements of databases?”: