
© Redis Labs Inc 2020
Today’s databases
have to do more
For the last 30 years, a deluge of transformative
trends has been continually remaking and
accelerating the database industry and changing the
very nature of the databases in your organization’s
technology stack. From relatively staid mainframe
programs handling only carefully constructed data
to modern microservices architectures working
with a wide variety of unstructured data, database
technology continues to morph and leverage new
technologies, tackle ever harder problems, and power
even more mission-critical use cases.
To fully understand what’s happening in the
technology choices—it’s important to work through
the impact of these trends. Today’s databases face
unprecedented challenges: they must work with
mountains of disparate data, return results in the blink
of an eye, and cope with hugely complex technology
environments, all while remaining easy to work with
and highly available. To meet those challenges,
modern database platforms must possess these 9 key
characteristics:
© Redis Labs Inc 2020
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