We might think that database technology is a matured technology and there are no trending prospects in the Database. Databases are more used to store data for the applications yet there are trending in the databases as well.
1. Cloud Support for Databases
Cloud support for databases seems to be an undoubted trend for databases. If you look at the cloud databases, now cloud vendors are looking at supporting varieties of databases. AWS supports eleven databases which fall into seven types as shown below.
Detail at: https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/?nc2=h_ql_prod_db
Microsoft Azure is putting up his hand to extend the different support for multiple databases as shown below.
If you look at the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
you will see a lot of players are fighting with small margins.
2. Time Series Databases
Though you can save data time column in a database, the database simply will not become a time series databases. There are databases such as InfluxDB which does more than storing date-time data.
3. Graph Databases
Every data is not row-column format and you would like to represent data in graphical format using Graph DB.
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