Database and the future of open source

Hello everyone , Small partners in the community may have found CnosDB I've embraced Rust. We have been paying close attention to the development of industry trends , Embrace emerging languages and cutting-edge technologies . In this issue Jesse I just want to talk to you about the future of database and open source . 

This article only represents personal views , If there is bias , Please ask Hai Han. ～  

The significance of data to enterprises is self-evident , Because of the impact of the new crown epidemic , More and more enterprises are also improving their applications and digital services to meet the challenges posed by the epidemic . therefore , In the face of more and more large and diverse data generation , The company also uses more databases and more tools to deal with it , And these companies rely on database products , It grows stronger over time , They also hope to mine the value of these data , Develop new products or find ways to create new profit growth points .

Data is everywhere ——  How to run services effectively

How companies run their databases is now a hot trend . in the past , Companies must run their instances internally as part of their data center environment . However, the situation has changed ,IT People have more choices in how to implement and support data . Company databases can also be run by cloud service providers , There is no need to deploy servers locally . The intention of more options is to make it easier for users to deploy , But at the same time, it may also bring potential chaos ——— Users will weigh , If you use the services provided by cloud service providers , Will they pay more for the service , And over time, customers do not understand the new cost model . They will also worry that if the choice is wrong and needs to be improved , Its migration cost is too high .

We believe that more enterprises will adopt DBaaS（ Database as a service ） Options , Because it can support more applications and digital services , It also helps developers focus on building applications . meanwhile , Some early adoptions DBaaS Our company will migrate by itself , Such as migrating to managed services . This will provide more flexibility and performance improvements . Other developers are also studying how to implement their own DBaaS platform , Instead of relying on specific providers . They want the benefits of Automation , At the same time, simplify the way they process data , But it is also possible not to transfer control to a third party .

Open source —— Developer choice has a huge impact

The commercialization of database technology continues , And critical to the application . In essence , Databases are becoming an important component of how developers combine their technology stacks . Although each database may have its own specialty and purpose , But this is becoming less and less important for developers . Choose your favorite programming language with them 、 Libraries or frameworks are similar , They will choose based on the familiar database they have used before . Of course, more choices bring benefits , But it also means that the infrastructure becomes more and more complex and opaque , We may find that small components have also become the Achilles' heel of the entire application . We see a greater diversity of technologies , May also see in the future , Reaching critical scale, projects appear to be integrated . therefore , Maintaining insight into developers and market needs is critical , This is also the reason why the open source model has increasingly become a standard configuration in the database industry .

Skill needs and security risks

Facing the explosive growth of enterprise data , Teams in various companies also have new needs for skill sets . For most developers and operation and maintenance teams , Database is not what they care about most . They only pay attention to the database when some tasks don't run as scheduled , At that time, database skills will also become a necessity . in fact , DBA Should be their right choice . However ,DBA Should be more inclined to act as a consultant or service provider , Instead of staying with employees . For those who really want to continue working in companies rather than suppliers , They should consider expanding their skills , To cover more than the database  IT field . So the future trend is , The company will contact more consultants or third-party suppliers , Expertise around databases will bring more economic value .

Besides , At present, there are still poor database security conditions in the market , The problem of data leakage . A lot of times , Due to the urgent business needs, the database is launched quickly , However, the personnel involved in the implementation did not fully consider how to strengthen safety . For everyone involved in infrastructure today , Steps such as forcing passwords to achieve fully role-based access control should be printed in their brains , But it's also easy for them to miss these steps when they finish the task in a hurry . If there is no fundamental change in the method , The number of security vulnerabilities will not decrease in the future . More data will be stolen or encrypted for ransom , More enterprises will suffer . As a response to , More companies will require compliance with the safety of design methods , Including the security deployment of any database instance implemented by the developer . 

For those who migrate to  DBaaS In the case of , Improving safety management should be one of the important selling points , Suppliers will consider this factor . however , This really puts more emphasis on managing the identity and access rights of cloud accounts . Implementing multifactor authentication should also help , And it should not be a problem that developers can solve . Helping them to be as efficient and fast as possible while maintaining safety will be the focus of the future .

CnosDB brief introduction

CnosDB It's a high performance 、 High usability open source distributed time series database , It has been officially released and fully open source .

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