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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 :
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Infrastructure as a service
- PaaS :
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Platform as a service
- SaaS :
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Software as a service
- DBaaS :
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Database as a service
- it :
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Information technology
- dba :
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Database administrator
- api :
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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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Cunha, R.L.d.F. (2019). Databases as a Service. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77525-8_83
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