New databases in the cloud

Nothing really new in this new post from the Database Column.

As a summary if you don't want to dig into it:

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Recent DBMS innovations make this a reality today, and the best cloud DBMS architectures will include:

1. Shared-nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.


2. Automatic high availability.


3. Ultra-high performance.


4. Aggressive compression.


5. Standards-based connectivity.

In summary, cloud databases with the architectural characteristics described above will be able to not just run in the cloud, but thrive there by:

• "Scaling out," as the cloud itself does


• Running fast without high-end or custom hardware


• Providing high availability in a fluid computing environment


• Minimizing data storage, transfer, and CPU utilization (to keep cloud computing fees low)