The State of Open Source Databases

1 . The State of Open Source Databases Peter Zaitsev, CEO Percona 

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3 .What a Year! Huge changes for Open Source and Open Source databases 

4 .RedHat Acquired by IBM Image Source: https://techcrunch.com/story/ibm-acquires-red-hat/ 

5 .Open Source Corporate Activity Elastic and Pivotal complete IPOs Mulesoft Acquired for $6.5bn, GitHub for $7.5bn MongoDB tripled its market up in 2018 $7.7bn Cloudera and Hortonworks merge to form Hadoop powerhouse 

6 .Open Source Software Traction Source: https://twitter.com/asynchio/status/1103408136860327936 

7 .Unicorns Changing from Open Source Licenses MongoDB changes Software License to SSPL (Server Side Public License) Elastic, Confluent, and Redis Labs releasing some components with Source Available License 

8 .Cloud and Open Source Should Software Are Open Source Are Cloud Providers Vendors be able to Software Users abusing Open maintain DBaaS interests are the Source software? Monopoly? same as Vendors ? How should Cloud Providers be compelled to contribute to Open Source? 

9 .Are you ready to share the pie ? Do we want to create a bigger pie, or have it all to ourselves? 

10 .Open Source is a Strategic Priority 69% of respondents say Open Source is of strategic importance to Enterprise infrastructure 68% of respondents increased Open Source Software usage over the last year 59% of respondents will increase usage further in the coming year Source: https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2019 

11 .Top Databases Only Open Source databases are showing growth! Source: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking 

12 .PostgreSQL Database of the Year and Proprietary Database Migration Target of Choice 

13 .Reasons to Adopt Open Source Databases The top three reasons to adopt Open Source databases: 

14 .Fears of Open Source Technologies The main fears when adopting Open Source database technology: 

15 .Self Support ● 64% of respondents rely on self-support when running Open Source database technology ● Only 36% use external support 

16 .License Preferences Source Available Permissive Licenses licenses are are the most considered closer to preferred by proprietary licenses respondents than Open Source 

17 .Relational Databases are Still Rocking it ● 97% of respondents use Open Source Operational Relational Databases ● 48% of respondents use Search Engines ● 37% of respondents use Document Databases 

18 .Public Clouds ● 50% of respondents are now running databases in the public cloud ● 70% of that 50% are using AWS 

19 .DBaaS ● 38% of all users who responded run some databases in a DBaaS environment. 74% of those are on AWS ● Amazon RDS is still twice as popular as Amazon Aurora for both MySQL and PostgreSQL 

20 .Multi-Cloud ● 38% of companies large companies (with more than 5000 employees) are adopting multi-cloud strategy 

21 .Market Trends 

22 .DBaaS is Winning Hearts and Minds Operational Convenience Agility simplicity 

23 .Multi-Platform Using Multiple Public Cloud Providers Private Clouds on premises Deployments on the Edge 

24 .Cloud Native Kubernetes emerges as de-facto standard Supported everywhere Allows you to build the next generation of databases Get some DBaaS benefits without vendor lock-in 

25 .Security, Privacy, and Compliance Executives are now paying attention Laws and regulations are getting teeth around the world Many serious data breaches 

26 .Record Start to 2019 for Database Breaches Source: https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2019-q1-breach-quickview-report 

27 .Insider Mistakes are the Leading Cause Source: https://pages.riskbasedsecurity.com/2019-q1-breach-quickview-report 

28 .Not If, But When? Source: https://www.thalesesecurity.com/2019/data-threat-report 

29 .To Sum It Up Continuing Growth of Open Source Database Adoption Increasing Tension between Users and Vendors Increasing Concerns of Cloud Vendor Lock-in and Costs Increasing Demands for Simplicity, Scalability, Security Kubernetes as New Hope