Flexibility

Demand for cloud databases continues to increase, not only because of better scalability and availability, but because of lower investment and operating costs. We’ll look at some of the limitations.

Gregor Bauer

Opinions are divided into two major camps as to what constitutes a cloud database. The first camp claims they are databases provided by hyperscalers such as Amazon, Azure, and Google under the database as a service (DBaaS) model. The other, more common, view is that they can be any database that someone deploys within any cloud infrastructure, whether it be a private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud, or hosted DBaaS. It’s just a matter of where the data is stored and how it is accessed. In the case of on-premises databases, access is over the corporate network (and VPN, if necessary) to internal database servers, whereas cloud databases will rely on Internet connections to external (in some cases internal) cloud servers. Deployment Models Generally speaking, cloud databases have three…

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