Why cloud databases are taking over the world

It’s a question of scale. Sponsored The cloud has a habit of breathing new life into venerable and slightly dull mature markets, making them exciting again. We’ve seen it with everything from enterprise application software through to hosted storage, but perhaps the most impressive turnaround has been in databases. Two decades ago, relational databases running in your own data center or a colocation center were standard, and that hadn’t changed in years. Then, the cloud brought sexy back to databases.…