Trove

OpenStack Trove, which was originally called Red Dwarf, is a project that was initiated by HP, and many others contributed to it later on, including Rackspace. The project was in incubation till the Havana release of OpenStack.

It was formally introduced in the Icehouse release in April 2014, and its mission is to provide scalable and reliable cloud DBaaS provisioning functionality for relational and non-relational database engines.

As of the Liberty release, Trove is considered as a big-tent service.

Big-tent is a new approach that allows projects to enter the OpenStack code namespace. In order for a service to be a big-tent service, it only needs to follow some basic rules, which are listed here. This allows the projects to have access ...

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