451 Research: Retailers Need Scale-Out Database Architecture This Holiday Season

A new report from 451 Research reveals that many businesses still rely on older back-end technologies, making it difficult for them to meet evolving customer expectations during peak traffic periods like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The report suggests that companies with outdated databases built with scale-up architectures struggle to maintain optimal inventory levels and automatically scale their systems to accommodate high traffic. To overcome this challenge, more organizations are moving to scale-out database architectures, which distribute data across servers and allow for predictable scaling. This approach offers benefits such as leveraging the power of the cloud, managing costs efficiently, increasing performance, handling unpredictable workloads, and improving availability with built-in fault tolerance. The report highlights that 52% of organizations expect to have scale-out architectures in two years, emphasizing the importance of adopting modern database technologies for holiday sales success.