Beginning Database Design Solutions: Understanding and Implementing Database Design Concepts for the Cloud and Beyond

In Beginning Database Design Solutions: Understanding and Implementing Cloud Database Design Concepts, Second Edition, veteran author and award-winning instructor Rod Stephens focuses on helping DBAs and novice database developers understand and implement cloud database design requirements. A cloud database is a database service built and accessed through a cloud platform. It serves many of the same functions as a traditional database with the added flexibility of cloud computing. Users install software on a cloud infrastructure to implement the database. Benefits include:

• Can be managed by the user or offered as a database as a service (DBaaS) and managed by a provider
• Can support relational databases (including MySQL and PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (including MongoDB and Apache CouchDB)
• Access through a web interface or vendor-provided API

Digital transformation is driving the need for well-designed cloud databases. One of the biggest transformational challenges facing enterprises today is the movement from on-premises computing to cloud computing, enabling people to access data quickly and reliably. Cloud databases need to be designed and developed to include several critical characteristics: global scale, cloud-readiness; mainframe-class consistency and reliability; operational simplicity; flexible development, and uncompromising security.

This book provides IT professionals with thorough coverage of database concepts and also clear examples they can apply to their designs for cloud databases. As a bonus, all of the source code used in this book is available for download. As you work through the examples in this book, you may choose either to type in all the code manually or to use the source code files that accompany the book.