Database as a Service
In a properly designed microservice architecture, all services are stateless, and all the states are stored in special services that know how to manage data persistence. In a cloud environment, stateless services enable efficient scalability and high availability. However, it is much harder to manage and scale database servers efficiently, especially ones that were not designed for a cloud. Most cloud providers offer to address that problem by using their Database as a Service (DBaaS) solutions. Such storage solutions might be customized versions of ordinary databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis) or designed from scratch to operate only in the cloud (AWS Redshift, Google BigTable, and Microsoft CosmosDB).
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