Dave Jilk, in Cloud Computing Journal on PaaS Databases

In his most recent article for Cloud Computing Journal, Standing Cloud CEO Dave Jilk recently discussed the varying degrees of database control allowed by leading Platform-a-as Service providers. The spectrum ranges from something very similar to IaaS, with near total control, to something more like SaaS, with very little or no control.

Here’s some of what he had to say:

"In an application deployed directly on IaaS, you know and control everything about the database; in a SaaS application you know little and control nothing.

"But how does it work in PaaS?

"Since a PaaS is essentially a container that runs application code, and virtually every application requires a persistent data store, most PaaS offerings provide some kind of database services. Not surprisingly, Resource PaaS offerings most closely resemble SaaS in that they hide more deployment details, while Server PaaS offerings are more flexible but potentially more complex. What is surprising is that some Resource PaaS offerings use a proprietary and non-standard database."

He then goes on to use examples to outline the different amounts of database control and file system access allowed by several PaaS offerings. Read the full article for a more detailed explanation.