CLOUD DATABASES:

Database accesible to clients from the cloud and delivered to users on demand via the internet. Also referred to as Database-as-a-service (DBaaS), cloud databases can use cloud computing to achieve optimized scaling, high availability, multi-tenancy and effective resource allocation.

Cloud databases can offer significant advantages over their tr

aditional counterparts, including increased accessibility, automatic failover and fast automated recovery from failures, automated on-the-go scaling, minimal investment and maintenance of in-house hardware and potentially better performance.