{"id":6625,"date":"2022-05-19T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.pingcap.com\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:05:46","slug":"why-we-must-make-data-as-accessible-as-water-or-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/blog\/why-we-must-make-data-as-accessible-as-water-or-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Must Make Data as Accessible as Water or Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data powers the modern world. Organizations of all types depend on massive, rapidly growing, and evolving datasets to deliver more intelligent services and achieve business growth. Given its importance and ubiquity, data should be treated as a utility \u2014 just like water, gas, and electricity. But how do we achieve this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve all become hyper-aware that data must be made readily available, relevant, and simple to leverage for all as we plan to keep up with the current data and technology evolution rate. In this piece, we\u2019ll explore how by leveraging open-source databases, data integration and modern data management tools, organizations can use and consume data like it\u2019s a utility.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Accessible data and the democratization of data  <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Utilities are easy and accessible to everyone. Flip a switch and the light comes on, turn a faucet and water comes out. Data should be just as accessible and reliable. This need has led to the much-discussed democratization of data to enable the ubiquity of business intelligence and the emergence of AI in the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step in the process is adopting open-source technology, which helps democratize and lower the barrier to entry for using technologies while improving their quality and reliability. Democratization is the idea that everyone can use and benefit from a particular resource. Like energy, open-source projects are accessible to everybody \u2013 and the community controls which direction those projects go, determining what features will be added and which use cases will be supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, before organizations can begin benefitting from an open-source technology, business leaders need to determine what their business needs most from it. That could be scalability, availability, security, or a combination of all of these. Answering this question is the first step for successfully leveraging open source and choosing technologies that simultaneously fulfill organizational needs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Accessible data: Durable databases provide easy access to data <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data accessibility is perhaps the most critical factor in treating data as a utility. Powerful, modern databases will play a central role in supporting that accessibility. To enable it \u2013 and to ensure organizations can easily gain value from all their data \u2013 emerging database technology must employ the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n