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title: DBaaS
description: Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a cloud database, a database that typically runs on a cloud platform, where access to the database is provided as a service.
---

# DBaaS

##### What is DBaaS?

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a cloud database, a [database](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/database) that typically runs on a cloud platform, where access to the database is provided as a service. Database services offer scalability and high availability of your database. Using a database as a service model, application owners do not have to install and maintain the database themselves. The provider of the database services does this.

##### DBaaS and Cegal

Cegal has excellent experience of DBaaS (although the term itself is a little outdated). "DBaaS" is now more associated with Autonomous/Self-Driving databases.

In Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle provides the following services for databases:

1. Virtual Machine for Oracle databases
2. Bare Metal for Oracle databases
3. Exadata Cloud Service
4. Autonomous databases

The first three are ‘Customer-managed’ database services, where Oracle is responsible for the infrastructure at the bottom, and the customer itself is responsible for the ‘VM's’ on which the services run.

Number 4 – Autonomous databases incorporate some machine learning and functionality which makes the database more or less autonomous, without the customer having to do anything other than increase/decrease the need for resources.

Cegal possesses considerable expertise relating to Oracle Cloud and can assist in finding the right solution based on need and price.

Related terms

- [ SaaS ](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/saas)
- [ PaaS ](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/paas)
- [ IaaS ](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/iaas)
- [ Cloud Computing ](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/cloud-computing)
- [ Oracle ](https://www.cegal.com/en/dictionary/oracle)
- Autonomous database, transaction processing, data warehouse, Oracle Autonomous Dataware House, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, self-driving databases, autonomous databases, Oracle universal credits, RDS

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