Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Databases Are the Weak Point in Big Data Projects

Big data is at the core of today's businesses and is recognized as the key to helping companies unlock never-before-seen opportunities and competitive advantages. But going from data points to competitive advantage can be a challenge filled with many variables. Chad Jones, Chief Strategy Officer at Deep Information Sciences, wants to know where are all of these tremendous insights we've been hearing so much about? 'The reality is that today's databases, built on math that is more than 30 years old, don't have the scale, speed and performance capabilities to handle big data,' he said. 'It's time the industry accelerates legacy practices with an adaptive alternative capable of machine learning. With this new underlying structure, databases' most critical functions, from high-speed data ingest to orderly capacity planning, will finally perform as they should, so businesses can identify the opportunities and business intelligence that big data is capable of delivering.' Here are his tips for fixing what's wrong with databases