Companies need new ways to manage their data
Data is everywhere. Every day there is more and more of it. Managing this data alone is a challenge, but now companies face more and more types of data and more and more locations of that data.
To put the growth of data in perspective, a University of California at Berkeley study predicts that after taking approximately 300,000 years for humans to generate 12 exabytes (an exabyte is over 1 million terabytes or a million trillion bytes) of information, the next 12 exabytes will be accumulated in just two and a half years.
And the sources of data are growing as well. Witness the variety of corporate, personal, and industrial devices that not only house data but, more important, are becoming enabled to hook into back-end data sources to feed and retrieve data.
Meanwhile, only about 20 percent of the world's data resides in relational databases; the rest is in a combination of flat files, audio, video, prerelational, and unstructured formats -- not to mention the mountains of paper-based data just waiting to be digitized.
The result of incorporating all these different data types and sources is that data management is changing into a broader category of managing content that includes all data types, vendors say.
Data, data everywhere
To keep up with the data explosion, database vendors are working to manage more data types, and in some cases they are doing so from within the core database engine.
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