Cloud database

A cloud database is a database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform and access to the database is provided as-a-service. There are two common deployment models: users can run databases on the cloud independently, using a virtual machine image, or they can purchase access to a database service, maintained by a cloud database provider. Of the databases available on the cloud, some are SQL-based and some use a NoSQL data model.

Database services take care of scalability and high availability of the database. Database services make the underlying software-stack transparent to the user.^[1]

^ Hwang, G.; Fu, S. (May 2016). "Proof of Violation for Trust and Accountability of Cloud Database Systems". 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid). pp. 425–433. doi:10.1109/CCGrid.2016.27. ISBN 978-1-5090-2453-7. S2CID 18373753.

[1] Hwang, G.; Fu, S. (May 2016). "Proof of Violation for Trust and Accountability of Cloud Database Systems". 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid). pp. 425–433. doi:10.1109/CCGrid.2016.27. ISBN 978-1-5090-2453-7. S2CID 18373753.

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