Are You Ahead or Behind theCurve?
Private Database Cloud Services or Database as a Service(DBaaS) is no longer a new idea. Infact, it is quickly becoming the de facto standard for development and testingenvironments both on premises and in the public cloud. And while there are many use cases anddeployment options, overall database total cost of ownership and businessagility have benefited from a standardized approach to workloadmanagement. Whether you are a DBA, anoperations manager, or a CIO, you are well aware that business-driven interestin social, mobile, big data, and internet of things have caused an explosion ofdevelopment, data, and database workloads. The justification for database operations to pool resources andstandardize services has never been clearer – watch thiscustomer story (TRT1:30).
Today’s best practices in cloud architecture expect serverscalability, zero data loss resiliency, and most importantly workload securityand isolation through multitenancy. For database services, the architecturewould be incomplete if database operations did not also natively supportmultitenancy. Initial approaches for DBaaSwere limited since they only relied upon virtual machines for workloadisolation and database provisioning. As general technology containers, VMs hadno intrinsic understanding of database operations, so they were unable to optimizeperformance, scalability, and resilience as well as simplify databaseadministration efforts.
Today’s best practice for database cloud services overcomesthese limitations. The Oracle PrivateDatabase Cloud approach is both revolutionary and elegantly simple. By engineering multitenant capabilities throughoutthe Oracle database platform, the complete range of database operations andadministration can now be natively managed andwithout the overhead of a virtual machine. Oracle’s Private Database Cloud guarantees isolation and leveragesOracle’s strengths in reliability, scalability, security, and systemsmanagement. Large database estates also benefit from a host of relatedcapabilities, such as cost-recovery reporting, self-service management, andpublic cloud integration. You will findthat Oracle database platform is ideal for a standardized enterprise deploymentor cloud service, whether development/test or production – watch thiscustomer story (TRT2:17).
Oracle offers a reference architecture overview and Oracleproduct mapping for DBaaS in a private cloud deployment model. The approach and guidance offered is thebyproduct of hundreds of customer projects and highlights the decisions thatcustomers faced in the course of their architecture planning andimplementations. Oracle’s advisingarchitects work across many industries and government agencies and havedeveloped standardized methodology based on enterprise architecture bestpractices. Oracle’s enterprise architecture approach and framework are articulatedin the Oracle Architecture Development Process (OADP) and the Oracle EnterpriseArchitecture Framework (OEAF).
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Table of contents:
Executive Summary 1
Fundamental Concepts 2
- What is a Private Database Cloud andDatabase as a Service?
- Why Consider Database as a Service?
- What is Different about Database as aService?
- Considering Moving to Database as aService?
Architectural Perspectives 5
- Architecture Principles
- DBaaS Architecture Domains
Architecture Views 8
- Conceptual Architecture Overview
- DBaaS Management Capabilities andProcess Overview
- DBaaS Physical Architecture
Conclusion