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Databases as a Service

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Synonyms

Cloud Databases

Definitions

Cloud provider: A cloud infrastructure provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or IBM Cloud.

End user: A user of cloud services, a person or company that uses services from the cloud provider.

Database server: A database management system that uses the client-server model.

Database as a service: Cloud computing service model that abstracts the setup of hardware, software, or tuning for providing access to a database.

Acronyms

IaaS :

Infrastructure as a service

PaaS :

Platform as a service

SaaS :

Software as a service

DBaaS :

Database as a service

it :

Information technology

dba :

Database administrator

api :

Application programming interface

Overview

Configuring and maintaining database systems is a complicated endeavor, which includes planning the hardware that will be used, configuring disks and file systems, installing and tuning database management systems, determining whether and how replication will be done, and managing...

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  1. IBM Research, São Paulo, Brazil

    Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha

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  1. Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha
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  1. School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, University of New South Wales School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia

    Sherif Sakr

  2. Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, University of Sydney Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, Sydney, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

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  1. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, 2751, Penrith, NSW, Australia

    Rodrigo N. Calheiros

  2. Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon, 46 allee d'Italie, 69364, Lyon, France

    Marcos Dias de Assuncao Ph.D

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Cunha, R.L.d.F. (2018). Databases as a Service. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_83-1

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