Rackspace DBaaS Powers Your Database Needs

When you hear “fully managed” database-as-a-service (DBaaS), you might think the work is covered end to end. In reality, most providers focus on the platform — managing infrastructure, hardware and software — while leaving database administration to you. If they do offer it, it often comes at an extra cost.

Rackspace DBaaS changes that. We manage the platform and your databases, with no add-on fees, so you can focus on building and scaling your applications. You get world-class database administrators with deep expertise in MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis, ready to handle the complex workloads that drive your business.

What DBaaS really means

DBaaS gives you on-demand access to a fully managed database environment without the burden of managing the underlying systems. A true DBaaS includes:

• High availability clusters
• Patches and upgrades
• Monitoring and alerting
• Email, chat and phone support
• Pay-as-you-go plans
• Data backups
• Query analysis
• API integration

With DBaaS, you can scale capacity as needed, reduce operational overhead and improve reliability without building out specialized in-house expertise.

The gap in “fully managed” services

Many providers stop at managing the platform. The database itself, which includes design, security, performance tuning, scaling and indexing, still falls to you. Hiring a skilled database administrator for each technology you use, from SQL to NoSQL, can be expensive and difficult to scale.

Here are just a few of the critical tasks a DBA handles:

• Architectural design and implementation
• Authentication and security
• Capacity planning
• Performance tuning and query optimization
• Sharding and scaling
• Indexing
• Testing new database versions

These responsibilities can directly impact application speed, security and stability. Without proactive database administration, “fully managed” often means you’re still doing the heavy lifting.

Why Rackspace DBaaS stands apart

We deliver both the managed platform and proactive database administration in one service, at no extra cost. This combination gives you the technical foundation and the hands-on expertise to keep your databases performing at their peak.

Key benefits that make Rackspace DBaaS a valuable solution for business include:

• Extreme focus on performance: We manage some of the largest and most demanding MongoDB workloads in the world, including Braze, which handles more than 2 million operations per second and bursts to 5 million.
• Complete management: Our engineers manage your platform and databases so your team can stay focused on innovation.
• World-class MongoDB expertise: We’ve optimized complex, performance-hungry workloads at massive scale.
• Scalable resources: We can scale database capacity up or down to meet changing demands.

MongoDB in action

MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database for flexibility and scale, and Rackspace DBaaS supports the latest version, MongoDB 7. Common use cases include:

• Content management systems: Power blogs, e-commerce and digital media platforms with a flexible data model.
• Real-time analytics: Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured data for customer tracking, IoT insights or financial analysis.
• Mobile and IoT applications: Handle dynamic, unpredictable data structures with ease.
• Personalization engines: Deliver tailored experiences using MongoDB’s advanced querying capabilities.
• Geospatial applications: Build location-based services for ridesharing, asset tracking, or logistics.

Look beyond the “fully managed” label

If a provider says their DBaaS is fully managed, ask what that means in practice. Do they include database administration or only platform support? Do they offer performance optimization, capacity planning and security management as part of the service, or is it an extra charge?

With Rackspace DBaaS, you get the complete package: platform management, expert database administration and the performance to scale without limits.

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