Oracle Thomas on the key to the coexistence and integration of database development

Cloud computing, things networking, mobile internet is a popular word in recent years, and these new concepts are emerging, a large number of semi-structured, unstructured data is growing rapidly, pictures, audio videos, social networks and other content filled with the lives of each user. There is no doubt that the era of big data is really coming. According to IDC, global data will reach 10 trillion TB in 2015, and the annual composite growth rate will reach 38% in 2020, while the length of usable storage capacity is expected to be 28%.

The ability to control large data can help enterprises find the best model to support business decision, however, in the real work, the development of large data let people encounter many problems, first of all, data storage. A few decades ago, when databases such as Oracle and SQL were swept around the world, many IT experts might not think that a large amount of unstructured data would fill the back-end storage space decades later.

Database platforms need to coexist and integrate

Because of the large amount of data and the complexity of data types, traditional relational database storage and analysis methods are not enough. And the emergence of Hadoop has brought hope, and many it vendors have used Hadoop to develop their own large data products, let people see the Hadoop in solving large data problems, the great potential.

Hadoop can handle structured data in relational databases while also dealing with unstructured data such as audio and video, which is the advantage of Hadoop, but does it replace traditional relational databases? "The new database is in parallel with the traditional relational database, they are complementary rather than replaced, and they solve different problems," Oracle Vice President Thomas Kyte said in an interview with 51CTO reporters. ”

For large data processing, Oracle has a comprehensive solution that relies on Oracle large data machines to store tens of billions of of rows of information, using Oracle Exadata Database cloud servers, exalogic middleware cloud servers, Exalytics Business Intelligence Cloud Server integration System to compress millions of lines of information to analyze and utilize.

As for the future development of database platform, Thomas concludes two keywords, namely coexistence and integration. "Oracle as a database company, one of the focuses is always the data." Oracle will be able to transform data into knowledge and information for people to use, such as NoSQL and relational databases have their own outstanding performance, so Oracle will combine different technical advantages. Oracle's strategy is to continuously integrate and integrate new database technologies into existing databases. ”

The ability of DBAs to improve in cloud computing era

In order to successfully control the vast amount of information, enterprises must have the appropriate skills to achieve their wishes. Today's DBAs, though trained, manage only traditional structured data environments and are not ready to handle large data environments and open source platforms such as Hadoop and MapReduce. What skills does a DBA need to master in the larger data age to face more challenges? In the era of cloud computing, Thomas argues, DBAs should put security first. Cloud computing is more the integration of different data resources, server resources together, centralized management for more effective use, the integration of security issues is more concerned about the user, so DBAs should pay more attention to how to ensure security. Second, DBAs should strengthen their resource management capabilities. Cloud computing environment, is not a database or server, may be a number of different databases in a machine to operate, how to effectively manage resources is a DBA need to consider the issue.

The advent of cloud computing will reduce the need for IT staff by implementing the core IT capabilities through cloud computing. Does this mean that the advent of cloud computing is not far from the end of the DBA? Cloud computing will reduce the need for traditional it technology, but the technology that cloud computing brings is new, and traditional IT professionals just change jobs. Thomas also agrees. "Cloud computing is the core of integration, the integration of resources into a resource pool, the resource pool of databases and computers and other devices will be centralized management." The proliferation of data has prompted a change in the speed of database growth, and the need for DBAs is always there, but the content of the DBA's work changes. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)