Question

In this article from the New York Times today it mentions that there is a surge in demand for computer science courses: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html

The tech field promises upward mobility and stability in the job market. Do you feel that the computer science field, particularly database design will peak or continue to grow at a steady rate?

Answer 1

The future of database design looks really bright. Here are some of the key areas which will see a boom in the field.

1. Expectations for database systems have expanded beyond relational to include alternative models.

Non-relational database technology, such as NoSQL and Hadoop, have emerged over the last few years. However, now the expectation is that leading database platforms can provide a wider range of capabilities and address the broader range of use cases and workloads that these non-relational technologies have enabled.

This has resulted in a “new normal” definition of capabilities for a general-purpose database platform, including support of new data types / multiple data models, in-memory, data virtualization, support for distributed storage, and extended capabilities such as graph and spatial. Customer are looking for a modern database platform that can natively support these additional workloads and functions.

2. Real-time analytics on transactional data will see a rise in demand.

Driven by the need to perform “transaction window” analytics with a simplified technology architecture, hybrid transactional analytic database systems, enabled by in-memory technology, are seeing increasing adoption.

Increasing demand to support operational workloads that incorporate real-time analysis, such as recommendations, targeting, and fraud analysis, are leading to increasing adoption of hybrid transactional analytic database systems. Industry analysts are recognizing this trend; Gartner uses the term “hybrid transaction / analytical processing (HTAP)”, IDC uses “analytic transactional processing (ATP)”, and Forrester uses “translytic data platforms”, for which it recently published a brand-new Wave report. In-memory is a key technological enabler of hybrid transactional analytic databases, which also provides the added benefit of simplicity of architecture – one system to maintain with no data movement.

3. Information management will evolve to manage disparate siloed data sources.

Companies are swimming in a sea of data right now, and to this point it’s been nearly impossible to make sense of it. And with the Internet of Things and additional sources emerging every day, more data means more problems.

A major challenge is that this data is increasingly becoming constrained by the reality of multiple data lakes and disparate siloed data sources. This is further driven by new data regulations, such as GDPR, which are mandating enterprise-wide data governance.

A new approach, as part of a modern data architecture, facilitates orchestrating, managing, and creating data flow pipelines, with push-down processing to the data where it resides, for data professionals as well as LoB users.

Previously, it was difficult for organizations to address this challenge, which required a build-it-yourself approach combined with piecemeal commercial products. However, new commercial solutions are now emerging to address this opportunity. This isn’t a nice-to-have product – these days, it’s an absolute necessity.

For more details, you could refer to : https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/acd3/4a13c3c936bc2bee24de1a866b7d44a4a6f0.pdf