Database and Data Platform Selection Questions

Evaluation and selection of database and data platform technologies to meet analytical and operational needs. Covers assessment of relational, non relational, columnar, and specialized systems such as time series and search engines; data warehouse platforms and cloud analytics platforms; query patterns and workload characteristics; consistency and transactional guarantees; partitioning and clustering strategies; storage formats and compression; performance and scalability trade offs; operational complexity and administration overhead; data ingestion and incremental loading patterns; pricing and cloud platform considerations; and how to choose the right solution based on data volume, concurrency, latency requirements, and total cost of ownership.