Fauna Releases ‘State of the Enterprise Database 2018’ Report
The report reveals that cloud adoption and security concerns are key considerations in choosing enterprise datastores.
Fauna has released a new report, “State of the Enterprise Database 2018,” that draws findings from a recent survey of more than 400 database managers and decision makers. Among the key findings, survey respondents across all industries ranked security as the most important aspect of choosing a database solution. Specifically, security was found to be roughly 13 times more important than cost when choosing a datastore, and stored secrets and end-to-end encryption were identified as the most important aspects.
Within specific industry sectors, the results show that retail and financial services companies are most concerned with multi-region availability, whereas financial services companies care most about multi-primary operations, and high availability is the key consideration for retail businesses. When it comes to the cloud, approximately 55% of survey takers said they deploy datastores to the cloud while 45% deploy to a data center they own or outsource to a third party. The data also reveals that enterprises are more likely to use the Google Cloud Platform, while small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are more likely to deploy to a managed data center.