Interesting RDBMS market developments, according to Gartner:
blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/20
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Numbers are fascinating, but DBAs are still needed. Cloud vendors are great at keeping your DBMS running, but someone else is needed to keep it running well -- schema design, queries, perf debugging, etc.
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ISTM that there is a complicating factor here: DBMSs are more forgiving than ever, to the extent that they appear magical - skewing incentives in organizations. Users are surprised that optimizers aren't perfect yet, whereas I'm still surprised that they appear to be ~adequate.
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I think the bigger complicating factor is that tweet above sounds as if there's some degree of consensus about who's responsible for what... but i still see enormous confusion on both the customer and the vendor side about this.
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IMO, the related difficulty in this new "shared responsibility" world is trafficking in ambiguity around the exact boundaries. Managed services easily handle backups and storage, but perf challenges or upstream bugs? I think there's a clear, not quite solved, challenge here.
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That's a good point. For some reason "boring problems" like this tend to go unacknowledged.
Cloud vendors are great at keeping the DBMS going, but keeping the DBMS + app happy requires more than automation, it requires expertise + human time (a DBA like entity).
I am not surprised there is some confusion about this.
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