How the Internet Defines Database as a Service in Spring 2014

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Victor Cheung.

With Oracle’s entry into database-as-a-service and IBM’s recent acquisition of Cloudant, database-as-a-service has been a hot topic. As of March of 2014, DBaaS, an acronym of database-as-a-service, is still a term that has multiple definitions. When searching for the definition of DBaaS, the web returned multiple results and definitions. These results are consolidated here in this post.

How Experts Define “DBaaS”

Many experts have a different definition for the term Database-as-a-Service. Here are some definitions from various sources that I found insightful:

“An on-demand, secure, and scalable self-service database platform that automates provisioning and administration of databases and can be used by developers and nontechnical personnel.” – Forrester, October 2012…

“DbaaS is nothing more than a focused realm within the greater field known as SaaS — it’s the delivery of database software and related physical database storage as a service… The provider is responsible for managing the service, without any requirement for the customer to maintain, upgrade, or otherwise administer their database.” – Steve Bobrowski, May 2008

“Database-as-a-service (DbaaS) is a cloud computing service model that provides users with some form of access to a database without the need for setting up physical hardware, installing software or configuring for performance. All of the administrative tasks and maintenance are taken care of by the service provider so that all the user or application owner needs to do is use the database…” – Cory Janssen, Techopedia.com

Read more at http://www.business2community.com/big-data/internet-defines-database-service-spring-2014-0820182#AByboQVjFO8HuSsm.99

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