Summary

In this chapter, we were introduced to the basic concepts of DBaaS and how Trove can help with this. With several changes being introduced and a score of one on five with respect to maturity, it might seem as if it is too early to adopt Trove. However, a lot of companies are giving Trove a go in their dev/test environments as well as for some web databases in production, which is why the adoption percentage is steadily on the rise.

A few companies that are using Trove today are giants such as eBay, who run their dev/test Test databases on Trove; HP Helion Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, and Tesora (which is also one of the biggest contributors to the project) have DBaaS offerings based on the Trove component.

Trove is increasingly being used in various companies, and it is helping in reducing DBAs' mundane work and improving standardization. In the next chapter, we will see how to quickly set up Trove using DevStack scripts.