Abstract

It is obvious that there are tremendous inventions and technological growth in IT industry. All upcoming technologies are almost trying to deal with only one concept “DATA” -how the data can be effectively stored, easily and accurately retrieved, efficiently distributed and queried etc. Hence one of the new such computing facility is Cloud Computing-accessing various computing resources that are geographically apart. It surely gets a significant attraction over the IT industry. This study explains and analyses the capabilities of Cloud Computing while dealing with databases such as Scalability, Availability, Consistency and Elasticity.

Keywords:

Cloud computing, cloud databases, database-as-a-service, elasticity, scalability,

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