Do you remember years ago before smartphones? You used to have a whole set of devices that each did one thing for you, like make calls, record messages, play music, or shoot pictures. Then the smartphone won us over because it converged all those into one technically elegant and intuitive device we can’t live without.
The notion of a converged database engine works on exactly this same principle. It converges an array of database capabilities — such as managing relational data, spatial data, JSON documents, IoT devices, social graphs, and blockchains—into one database engine. It can run workloads from online transaction processing to real-time analytics and machine learning, and can work within development paradigms such as microservices, events, REST, SaaS, and CI/CD.