The Future of Database Technology is in the Clouds
Database.com Getting Started Series White Paper
Database technology is the persistence layer at the heart of all data-centric applications, the tier of software that’s in charge of organizing, protecting, and managing shared database access reliably, securely, efficiently. This paper explores what the future holds for database technology. We’ll see the significant challenges facing existing database systems as cloud computing adoption becomes mainstream, and learn how the inevitable future of databases are cloud database services that are management-free, automatically tuned and optimized, and elastic to variable resource demands. Finally, we’ll take a quick look the Database.com cloud database service and some of its differentiating features that uniquely position it to support social and mobile apps.
