An Overview on Cloud Distributed Databases for Business Environments

TL;DR

This paper reviews cloud-based distributed databases, focusing on their functionality, benefits for businesses, and the role of Database-as-a-Service offerings like Amazon RDS in enabling scalable, reliable, and available data management solutions.

Contribution

It provides an overview of cloud distributed databases and analyzes the functionalities of DBaaS services such as Amazon RDS for relational data management.

Findings

Cloud distributed databases enable global scalability and high reliability.

DBaaS offerings simplify deployment and management of distributed databases.

Amazon RDS is a prominent example of cloud relational database services.

Abstract

Cloud-based distributed databases are a popular choice for many current applications, especially those that run over the Internet. By incorporating distributed database systems within cloud environments, it has enabled businesses to scale operations to a global level, all while achieving desired standards of system reliability, availability, and responsiveness. Cloud providers offer infrastructure and management tools for distributed databases as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), re-purposing the investment by businesses towards database services. This paper reviews the functionality of these services, by highlighting Amazon Relational Data Service (RDS), suited for handling relational distributed databases.