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Primary Architect: Vernon Yoshida
Description:
Databases are foundational parts of nearly every ITS system. The future selection of databases is therefore critical for all future ITS activities.
There are two key ideas that have driven the creation of this brick…
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It is a market reality that Oracle and Microsoft will be among the preeminent database providers for the foreseeable future, and any new applications that we deploy at UH will require one of these database products as a base requirement.
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Open source database services are maturing, and we should move gradually to adopt them, but we should not make them foundational to our strategy at this time.
Experimental |
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Strategic (3-5 Years) |
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Tactical (1-2 Years) |
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Containment |
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Retirement |
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Growth of cloud services will likely drive ITS database services in the future. Some applications will use Software as a Service and the database will be less visible (even invisible) to UH. Some applications may need a Platform as a Service (e.g. Amazon RedShift) where database controls will be limited. And some will need IaaS where more traditional database administration will be needed.
Researchers (and eventually administrators) are increasingly adopting big data analytic platforms (e.g. Hadoop).
Growth of structured data is likely to accelerate over the next few years as new big data and analytical systems come online (e.g. enterprise data warehouse).
UH warehousing/BI project could lead to ITS altering its database strategy.
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Change History
Reviewed by TAC in September 2014 -
suggestion: create a “where we stand now” brick, develop more guiding principles, then create a “radical” brick challenging some of the difficult decisions/principles
Brick first created August 2014
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