Oracle's DBaaS is a feature of the company's growing focus on cloud technology, Oracle Cloud. The focus of the DBaaS is to allow end users greater customization and control of its databases without sacrificing excess money,storage, and ease of usage. According to a news press found on the Oracle corporation website (Oracle Expands Oracle Cloud), the DBaaS includes:
The end users are given several options to choose from when deciding how their databases should be managed, allowing companies to customize these services to their needs. Companies can choose a basic service featuring pre-configured settings and software, managed services which allows Oracle to manage, backup, and recover the DBMS as much as needed, or maximum availability services which allow the highest possible of security, recovery/backup processes, and management of a companies DBMS as possible. At the same time, each service is priced as monthly subscriptions to fit within a firm's budget.
This is probably not the only instance of an attempt at DBaaS, but it is definitely the one instance most organizations have been looking forward to. The use of cloud computing, particularly in an enterprise setting, has shown to have been increasing in most recent years. The fact that a reputable company, such as Oracle, has taken the reins of the growing technology shows that this could be a very promising way of managing databases.
