The database industry used to be more monolothic. Now many enteprises have a hodge-podge of pieces to their data pipeline. Why is it that each company is coming out with their own management console front-end. We've had recently, Cloudera, Greenplum, MongoDB, Cassandra all show off their snazzy new management consoles. Only MarkLogic seems to have taken the integrate instead of build route (OpenView + Nagios I think.)
If there are 6-8 things touching the data in a pipeline, shouldn't they be reporting up to a central console? Do we really need another central console technology? Look to the networking industry for guidance here....
Next up, layer cakes of file systems and social networking portols - everyone seems to want their own one of those too....