ParElastic Claims to Offer True DBaaS

According to ParElastic, their engine can be used as a tool to enable elastic database capacity in relational database servers such as MySQL.

“The simultaneous disruptive trends of highly interactive social media, and mobile communications, are creating a massive increase in the volume and volatility of data under management,” said Ken Rugg, founder and CEO of ParElastic. “The migration of applications to the cloud, and the movement away from databases on servers to DBaaS offers the promise of a solution, but traditional database systems, even solutions hosted in the cloud and positioned as DBaaS, fail to take advantage of this opportunity.”

According to ParElastic, DBaaS solutions will have to be much more capable of addressing circumstances where the workload on the database would exceed the capacity of a single server instance, as well as addressing circumstances where the workload on the database is highly variable. The company said that it believes the database market "is in a state of transition from the consumption of capacity through the acquisition and provisioning of servers and software, to the consumption of database capacity on demand." In its view, DBaaS requires "a connection end-point which provides standard relational database semantics" as well as dynamic scalability "beyond the capacity constraints of a single server instance," and where the resources used by the service can be dynamically adjusted in response to the workload presented to it at any given instant.

The ParElastic Database Virtualization Engine is currently available as a beta version.