In his recent column, CNET’s Dave Rosenberg asks “Are databases in the cloud really all that different?”. The short answer: Yes, They ARE!
Addressing Rosenberg’s point, I described the 4 key issues every system architect should take into account when designing their database for the cloud — and why achieving them on a Cloud environment might be more complex, tedious to manage, and way more expensive than you might think.
Basically, you need:
- Replicable, high-availability set-up - because the cloud is an unstable, unpredictable, environment.
- Database that scales elastically - and scaling out by adding nodes is harder on a cloud infrastructure.
- Distributed databases – which require building the logic to handle conflicts, network and latency problems.
- True Multi-tenancy - And not a simple standard SQL database installed in multiple copies on the same virtual machine – which can cause more headaches and management overhead to keep running.
This is all hard work – we know..
In his review, Rosenberg also describes why relational databases are here to stay, and why NoSQL isn’t necessarily the answer for your cloud concerns.
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