Why Nutanix Database Service is the Right Choice for Next-Gen DBaaS and Database Management in Hybrid Clouds

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, organizations are under constant pressure to innovate quickly, ensure high availability, and scale operations without compromising security or compliance. While public cloud fully managed database services like AWS RDS offer flexibility and ease of use, many enterprises still prefer to run critical workloads in their own datacenters or hybrid cloud environments.

Managing databases at scale across hybrid infrastructures isn’t easy. Enterprises often juggle 100,000+ heterogeneous databases with 500+ new instances created daily. The challenge? Maintaining high availability, ensuring business continuity, enforcing security policies, and containing costs – all at once.

Enter Nutanix Database Service

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) delivers the agility of fully managed cloud-native database services with the control and compliance of your datacenter. It’s a next-gen database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform that empowers teams to provision, manage and scale most popular SQL, NoSQL, and Vector databases – across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments – through a unified, automated platform.

NDB supports a wide range of databases, including Oracle (with RAC), Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL with pgvector, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB, and simplifies lifecycle management across all of them.

Why NDB is the Right Choice for DBaaS in Your Datacenter or Hybrid Cloud

Operational Simplicity with Self-Service Automation

Provisioning, patching, cloning, and backing up databases manually are time-consuming processes prone to human error. NDB changes that with self-service provisioning in minutes, automated bulk patching, thin cloning, and integrated backups. NDB customers have experienced up to 40% reduction in infrastructure management workload, giving DBAs and developers the ability to deliver data services faster with confidence.

• Database provisioning time reduced by up to 90%
• Automatically enforce your organization’s best practices with every deployment

Cloud-Like Agility in Your Datacenter

NDB enables database services that feel like cloud but stay in your datacenter. With just a few clicks, you can spin up production-ready databases, mirror test and dev environments, and iterate rapidly – all without giving up data sovereignty or control.

Unified Management Across Hybrid Clouds

NDB provides a single control plane to manage databases across on-premises and cloud environments. Whether you’re using Nutanix on-premises or on bare-metal in AWS or Azure, NDB ensures consistent operations and governance.

Built-In Security and Compliance

Security isn't an afterthought – it’s built-in. With automated bulk patching (5x reduction in database patching time), RBAC, encryption, and auditing, NDB keeps your data compliant and your operations secure.

• Patching time reduced from days to minutes with a single click

Instant Snapshots and Recovery for Business Continuity

Downtime and data loss can have devastating consequences. With NDB, you get fast, reliable point-in-time recovery that allows your business to stay resilient – no matter what.

• Snapshots of a 40 TB database in under three minutes
• Recovery of that same database in under eight minutes

Performance and Cost Optimization

NDB runs on Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), delivering up to 1,000% improvement in I/O performance and up to 9x storage savings. By consolidating infrastructure and optimizing workloads, NDB delivers the potential for a significant reduction in TCO and an impressive  boost in performance.

Support for Heterogeneous, Multidatabase Environments

Modern apps demand diverse database engines. NDB simplifies the management of SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases, reducing tool sprawl and enabling consistent operations across all your data services.

Customer Examples and Case Studies

Many of the world’s most recognizable and demanding organizations trust NDB for DBaaS across on-premises and hybrid clouds.

Global Reach, Proven Impact

From banking to retail, and public sector to e-commerce, NDB powers mission-critical workloads for industry leaders across global commerce, including:

• Banking – including Wells Fargo and RBL Bank
• Appliance Manufacturers – including SubZero
• Aviation – including JetBlue Airways
• Insurance – including Penn National Insurance
• Government – including Sogei, IT partner to the Italian government and Regione del Vineto
• Global fintech and trading – including IG Group

These organizations use NDB to eliminate operational bottlenecks, accelerate innovation, and maintain enterprise-grade security and compliance – all while scaling database services globally with confidence.

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Customer Stories about Nutanix Database Service

Real-World Impact

Organizations using NDB have reported transformative results, including:

• 99.99% database availability with Zero downtime
• 5x improvement in database performance
• 40% lower total cost of ownership
• 40% reduction in management time
• Up to 1,000% increase in read/write I/O performance
• 5x reduction in database patching time
• Replica deployment in minutes instead of hours
• Refresh a database in minutes vs. hours
• Snapshot a 40 TB database in under three minutes (vs. 60+ hours)
• Restore a 40 TB database in under eight minutes (vs. 60+ hours)

These outcomes aren’t just technical wins for the particular organization – they drive faster innovation, higher productivity and dramatically improved business resilience.

Where can I Try NDB?

Learn more about NDB at www.nutanix.com/ndb.  Be sure to sign up for a FREE test drive to try NDB on your own without the need to download or install any software.  Within minutes you’ll be able to provision a new database, clone, snapshot and perform point-in-time recovery, and set-up maintenance policies along with OS and database patches.

Conclusion

As enterprise data estates grow larger and more complex, the need for agile, secure and cost-effective database management has never been greater. NDB offers a powerful solution that combines the operational simplicity of cloud DBaaS with the governance and performance of on-premises infrastructure.

Whether you're operating in a private cloud, public cloud or hybrid architecture, NDB ensures you're ready to scale securely, recover instantly and innovate continuously – all while keeping costs in check.

Nutanix Database Service: The next-gen DBaaS built for hybrid reality.

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