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Is Database-as-a-Service a Bad Idea?

Community
Architecture
Topics
Platforms,
SaaS

Data Management represents a strategic asset for Cloud Platforms as the most popular Data Services will likely command the largest platform market share. In a post this week, Arnon Rotem-gal-Oz argues that "Database-as-a-Service" is a bad idea. Would you trust your enterprise data to DaaS?

The RDBMS is not enough.

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Data Access,
Database Design

In a world of services, RDBMS are not the solution to every problem. Document Oriented Distributed Databases try to solve this and add a new way of storing documents. CouchDB (written in Erlang) is in its alpha stage and evolving on a regular basis. InfoQ caught up with Anthony Eden who is implementing the same concept in Ruby with RDDB.