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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. Or would you rather be treated for all of these to a standard of care available in 2020? That makes the price affordable to the user.

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