{"id":8241,"date":"2018-04-17T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:31:49","slug":"database-as-a-service-dbaas-freeing-businesses-to-focus-on-data-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/database-as-a-service-dbaas-freeing-businesses-to-focus-on-data-modeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Database as a Service (DBaaS): Freeing Businesses to Focus on Data Modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Database as a Service (DBaaS) is simply database software running in the cloud.\u00a0 Users don&#8217;t need to worry about how to provision or manage the implementation, upgrade and maintenance issues of the database.\u00a0 DBaaS abstracts interactions with the database to a user interface or generic API calls that may not be specific to a particular database, like Oracle, MySQl or SQL Server.<\/p>\n<p>As with any &#8220;as a Service&#8221; resource, DBaaS has similar benefits. Infrastructure and maintenance concerns are all taken care of, like the purchase of equipment and software licenses, the need to have an in-house database administrator, concerns around power and hardware maintenance, and the worry about uptime. A few of the disadvantages are that there is less direct control over the data, it resides outside the company firewall, and performance can be affected by network traffic.<\/p>\n<p>But with infrastructure concerns out of the way, a DBaaS makes it possible for a business to focus more specifically on data-modeling and query tuning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pkthakur\/\">Praveen Thakur<\/a>, Vice President at Oracle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio-asia.com\/resource\/storage\/dbaas-to-be-the-backbone-of-business-transformation-oracle\/\">said that<\/a> &#8220;initially, we viewed DBaaS primarily as a consolidation exercise for reducing capital expenditures (CAPEX) for our customers, but as it evolved, we realized that other key drivers like self-service, chargeback, and capacity planning facilities proved to be key for businesses to not only reduce costs, but to also have the resources and support to enact real business 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