In the Industry 4.0 era, database architecture is one of the factors of a company’s success in the modern market. The ability to adapt data models, the flexibility to introduce new databases and the speed of (re) interpretation of large amounts of data in order to promote business agility and innovation is something that the market is relentlessly demanding. In a programmatic digital media ecosystem, responsive databases are key to the success of advertising campaigns and their real-time optimisation.