CW Developer Network Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue As everybody knows, there’s no hot dogs, pretzels or pork roast without mustard. Microservices, it has been suggested, also need a solid relish (and a bun backbone), without which they fail to be easily consumed. A Redis Labs IDC ‘InfoBrief’ study (another name for a ‘survey’ presumably) named “The Impact of Application Modernisation on the Data Layer” suggests that nearly half of microservices applications rely on a database. As many as 84% of technologists questioned said that using a key-value or NoSQL database for their microservices-based applications made the most sense. According to IDC’s suggested concepts here, 24% of microservice applications are considered to be business-critical, of which, 42% would directly result in revenue loss if they suffered downtime.