Accelerate database innovation by creating a fair and transparent market of database workloads and rewards those that can increase performance while reducing cost. A typical company's experience of managed database costs is that they continually go up and can particularly spike if the vendor has new owners that want contracts renegotiated. Due to each database encouraging the use of its unique features, the company's code gets locked into this vendor because it would require a huge amount of labor cost to alter all the code to target the new database technology. In our network we will prevent lock in by standardizing the API for each database type.