Commercial platforms still dominate – especially for business-critical applications – but open-source databases are on the rise. In previous eras, few enterprise IT teams were willing to inject risk into their internal systems by using an open-source data platform or a database management system from a new startup. Those days are over.

The advantages of open-source databases are many, with the salient one being obvious: You can’t beat free or low-cost.

Without the (often expensive) licensing fees attached to commercial software, IT budgets are unencumbered by contractual payments. With the savings, IT departments have enormous flexibility, can experiment, and can move as quickly as market forces demand.

This trend of increasing adoption of open source databases like MySQL, Postgres and flavors of NoSQL isn’t going away any time soon. But Migrating to open source can be tricky as the open source database will not be 100% the same as the businesses favorite proprietary database and will require Professional assistance.

d-Insight’s experienced and expert team of Database Professionals have been helping our customers achieve this! We can help you migrate your proprietary Databases to Open Source databases like Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL etc.