Database as a Service (DBaaS)
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Adopt
Database as a Service (or Serverless Database) is a modern cloud-based database solution where you no longer need to manage and maintain the underlying database technologies.
We think DBaaS solutions are the best solution for many of our datastore/database needs and we are trialing CockroachDB in this space.
Assess
Database as a Service (or Serverless Database) is a modern cloud-based database solution where you no longer need to manage and maintain the underlying database technologies. Many cloud vendors are starting to offer solutions in this space.
We want to assess if DBaaS solutions can help our client teams and what impact it would have when we start using them.