Explore data management for edge analytics

- [Instructor] We're all used to thinking about…our applications being supported by some sort of database,…file system, or other data environment.…For the longest time, the default go-to data management…capability was a relational database such as Oracle,…Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, Cybase, or a similar product.…These general-purpose data engines supported a large variety…of transactional and analytical applications.…In recent years though,…the drivers of the big data revolution,…the three V's of volume, variety, and velocity…have complicated our data management choices largely…because we now have a number of non-relational alternatives…that could be better suited…for what we're trying to accomplish.…

When we look at edge analytics and what we need to do…for data management, we need to take into consideration…different types of data that we may need,…performance and response time considerations,…storage and capacity factors,…and also for whatever platform we wind up selecting,…the ways in which we will design and organize our data.…