Converged/Consolidated Databases: A Quick Overview

What are Converged/Consolidated Databases?

Here is an excellent blog post on this topic by Maria Colgan Master Product Manager at Oracle Product Management. Here is a quick summary of the characteristics/properties of Converged/Consolidated Databases.

• Converged/Consolidated Databases 
• Converged/Consolidated Databases cater to all types of data, workloads and development protocols.
• Eliminating data fragmentation also eliminates data contagion in Converged/Consolidated Databases enabling application logic/modules to use and reuse a shared data copy across the organization.
• Converged/Consolidated Databases enable more synergy for data and workloads making development faster.
• Converged/Consolidated Databases make it much simpler for developers to run stuff like Cloud, Autonomous/ML, extended SQL, spatial, blockchain, IoT etc. in one singular consolidated database rather than running them across distributed Single-Purpose databases.
• Converged/Consolidated Databases provide native support for all modern data types and most of the latest/prevalent development protocols.
• Converged/Consolidated Databases helps the overall ecosystem to be relatively lesser complex which results in lesser maintenance and development costs in the medium to long run.
• Converged/Consolidated Databases provide more/better integration for data and workloads.
• Oracle Database is a very successful example/manifestation of a Converged/Consolidated Databases model.

This video by Juan Loaiza & Andrew Sutherland gives a good summary on this topic.

I hope you got a quick overview of Converged/Consolidated Databases in this blog post.

Cheers.