Database as a Service (DBaaS) Challenges and Solutions

Cloud services have become one of the trends in the IT industry. The real idea of Cloud computing is to satisfy the client without increasing infrastructure operations and costs. It is easy to use, cost-effective, less infrastructure and configuration costs. It has almost zero maintenance, low operational cost and less effort. Using cloud service to deploy Database is known as Database as a service (DBaaS) which become one of the most used cloud services with time. The DBaaS and cloud databases market is one of the fastest-growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), expected to grow more and more by next decade. Data warehouse and database vendors have joined established cloud providers in offering hosted versions of their software, enabling customers to leverage the many benefits of cloud computing for their applications’ data storage, search, and access needs. Like any new trend in IT, DBaaS faces many challenges at the forefront, like security, availability, and interoperability. To overcome these challenges, this work discusses them and provides solutions to use DBaaS in an efficient way.