Reviewing the history of monolithic data platforms

Managing the substantial amount of data that’s generated by every company daily is a complex endeavor. It calls for dedicated resources and technological support in the form of a specific data platform.

Nowadays, data platforms often fall short in delivering the expected value compared to the investments made, primarily due to organizations’ inability to sustainably manage the complexity they generate over time.

System complexity

The complexity of a system is determined by the number of its components multiplied by the number of correlations between them. A database with 10,000 tables is not much more complex than a database with 100 tables if the tables themselves are not correlated. Each table tells its own story. It can be manipulated without concern for the meaning of other tables and the potential impacts that the executed action may have on them. However, the complexity between the two databases is very...