Cloud computing has nowadays become a mainstream enterprise-class technology delivering agility and scalability that businesses need to forge ahead. To meet the ever-evolving IT requirements of businesses, cloud have recently introduced new genre of databases-either running on the cloud platform or devised to optimize enterprise cloud computing.

Cloud DBaaS (Database as a Service) is perhaps the latest fad that has recently emerged in the IT world. The reason is being quite a cinch. It enables the businesses to deploy new databases speedily, securely and economically. Indeed, the recent market research has even revealed that there has been an astounding increase in the annual growth rate i.e. up to 86 percent in the industry with a higher contribution from DBaaS providers, and the same is expected to escalate up to $1.8 billion by 2016. It really becomes imperative to discuss when it comes to deployment of database over cloud infrastructure. The conjunction of cloud computing technology and database is termed as Cloud Database or Cloud DB.

What is Cloud Database or DBaas?

A Cloud database management system is a disseminated database that delivers computing as a service in lieu of a product. It is all about the apportioning of resources, software, and mission-critical applications between various devices over a network which is mostly the internet. Perhaps, it is estimated that this number will propagate significantly in the near future. Consequently, it has been found that there has been increase in the number of businesses coming forth to outsource database management tasks from third party service providers as they deliver services and perform tasks at a much reasonable cost.

Database-as-a-Service (DBaas) has many offerings to organizations, few to name those are; quick deployment provisions, slashes down the system procurement and maintenance costs, and most importantly elasticity to meet the ever-changing business needs.

In many ways, DBaaS epitomizes the advantages of the "as a Service"perspective that's ascended in conjunction with cloud computing. Some of the key features that make Database-as-a-Service (DBaas) a standout among others are:

-DBaaS lessens database breakdown: Database-as-a-Service (DBaas) enables you to shift your organization from supervising a multifaceted assortment of storage space-each demanding proper maintenance, attention, and reinforcement-to a business powered by a highly responsive and manageable database cloud.

-DBaaS reinforces rapid provisioning: Thinking of speeding up the provisioning of new database real quick? No issues. As, DBaaS enables you to easily clone the existing database within minutes.

-DBaaS augments security: Upholding each and every database in an autonomous repository creates a kind of virtual fosse, which is an inhibition for the unscrupulous spikes and access by the hacker.

- Automation facilitates unified management of all your databases: This is a prime feature that enables you to automatically manage and administer all your databases more smartly and efficiently.

Conclusion:

These days organizations are more concerned to secure their mission-critical data from prominent and anonymous threats. This has been considered as the most important factor even though cloud computing had not been embraced to a much extent, as there are some organizations that are still not willing to put their critical data on cloud server. But, the rise of cloud-friendly database has really made it easier to master this new environment. The emerging genre of databases is basically designed to help organizations manage their mission-critical data in the cloud more easily. Hence, Database-as-a-Service (DBaas) enables them to manage a wide array, velocity, and volume of data easily, which is undeniably extending and augmenting day by day at greater pace. In the end, would like to sum up by saying that with the increasing demand of DBaaS, we expect it to make headway in the IT world by the end of 2014.