Published: 21 April 2015
ID: G00275038
Analyst(s): Rick Greenwald
The decision to select a relational database implementation in the cloud involves several aspects that can affect achievable overall benefits. Based on attributes of specific use cases, different cloud implementations (an IaaS-based database or dbPaaS), or not using the cloud at all, may be optimal.
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