Re:OVH: PaaS DB PostgreSQL
by ahachete on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:28AM
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While I love seeing more PostgreSQL offerings in the cloud, I don't understand why they call it PaaS. It's a DbaaS, but a PaaS... a PaaS is really an application API that is managed by the cloud provider, and takes care of stuff like scaling it. Like Google App Engine. But calling a database a PaaS is a little bit bending the term, IMHO.
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> [an application API that is] managed by the cloud provider, and takes care of stuff like scaling it
A system like DynamoDB, that exposes no concept of database cluster size, would be a PaaS, then? Still sounds off, to me. "PaaS" just isn't a word that applies to a service that doesn't execute your code.
Something that's almost entirely a database on the backend could still be a PaaS if it runs your code, though—like Parse.