Why cloud DBaaS is the future of database management for the enterprise

With on-premise database infrastructure and legacy systems slowly fading, agile, scalable, cost effective database management in the cloud is taking over.

This is because organisations now understand that to adopt to the innovations in database management system (DBMS) they need to move to the cloud. DBMS on cloud offers flexible pricing models, no capital expenses and better operating expense leveraging the pay-as-you-go model. Unsurprisingly then, the popularity of ‘database as a service’ is increasing.

According to market studies, by 2021, DBMS revenue will account for 50% of total DBMS market revenue. By 2023, 75% of all databases will be on a Cloud platform. These trends will have a major impact on the DBMS vendor landscape.

Cloud database as a service (DBaaS) enables an organisation to access, alter and manage corporate data without the need to setting up on-premise infrastructure. The DBMS is hosted on a cloud which frees the operations and maintenance personnel from the routine tasks necessary for running the enterprise database. When a database cluster is in the cloud, everything concerned with the infrastructure is dealt with and managed by the cloud provider. This allows the enterprise to concentrate better on its actual business objectives. Cloud DBaaS is gaining in popularity because big businesses are able to cut back costs on infrastructure and manpower and spend on value additions to their core products and services.

Any large enterprise that needs data synchronisation across geographical locations, eCommerce companies trying to manage real-time transactions, core trading systems, mobile application developers, data storage, data migrations are some of the industry segments opting for a Cloud DBaaS model.

So too are companies in healthcare, banking and finance, and IT services which are choosing cloud DBaaS over traditional database management systems. Moreover, non-traditional sectors – like social networking organisations, online music and gaming stores, e-learning and media organisations – are looking at cloud-based database management setup since flexibility and scalability is important for their business.

This is where a cloud service and infrastructure provider comes in, to offer a simplified set of fully managed state of the art database management services and products.