The future of the database combines standardisation and specialisation “Anybody who claims that their database solves all problems is lying to their customers,” says EDB’s Marc Linster Monitor your databases closely to avoid functional and technical siloes Computing Staff Databases are crucial for businesses to organise the information they collect, but in recent years the number in use has spiralled out of control. We talked to Marc Linster, CTO at EDB - which provides software and services based on the database PostgreSQL (Postgres) - to see what the future might hold. The number of databases in use continues to climb, and organisations increasingly utilise them for a variety of purposes like event streaming, transactions and analytics. With that in mind, there is a real risk in ending up with multiple siloes of functionality. Linster says standardisation is the solution: