As public and private cloud adoption continues to skyrocket, it’s becoming more and more clear that Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is hugely important to users. This isn’t really news, as much as it’s a confirmation of what many were seeing much earlier in the cloud industry’s maturation. DBaaS is the next killer app for cloud services.
As an example, consider that DynamoDB from AWS was, after only five months in production, the fastest growing AWS service all the way back in 2012. Also consider the 451 Research report authored by Matt Aslett back in August of 2013. By Matt’s estimation, DBaaS services based on MySQL will grow at a CAGR of 81% from 2012 to 2016. That’s some serious growth, representing a clear user demand.