This article is part three of a six-part series: “The Changing Role of the Modern DBA,” developed as a collaborative effort between IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly.

It’s no secret that data management has changed dramatically in the nearly 10 years since the onslaught of “big data.” A decade ago, the relational database management system (RDBMS) ruled the enterprise.  While research shows that the RDBMS is still the backbone of most enterprise infrastructure, newer technologies are steadily making their way into organizations to allow them to tap into the unprecedented growth and variety of data. As a result, today, polyglot persistence is the mandate, and innovative NoSQL and NewSQL databases, cloud services, and data processing technologies have arisen alongside stalwart RDBMSs, data warehouses, and traditional on-premise deployments.

The editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly are collaborating on a new six-part content series on ‘The Changing Role of the Modern DBA’.  This six-part series will be running over the course of the next three months, with three articles appearing on SELECT and three articles appearing on Big Data Quarterly.

Part three has published this week by Joyce Wells, who address this change in a new Big Data world.

Check out the other parts of the series attached below.