What is Serverless?
Serverless does not mean that no server is involved. Simply put, the service or an application is still hosted on the server, but the developers would not have to manage that server themselves. Complex tasks such as server provisioning, maintenance, security, and scaling are abstracted away. These tasks are handled by a cloud service provider. Additionally, a serverless application can scale up and down as per demand, and the application owner only has to pay for those resources that are used by utilizing the pay-as-you-go model. We will discuss this later in the article.
But before that, there’s an important question that needs to be addressed that is:
What is a Serverless Database?
Technology keeps on advancing at a rapid pace, aiming to find solutions to problems and complete the work more efficiently. Problems arise in every sector, and the Department of Database Management and Deployment is no stranger. To build and deploy applications, developers needed some kind of hardware to deal with the database, whether it was the processing of it or the storage. It required a lot of operational management and hence, consumed a lot of precious time, not to mention the increase in costs of using traditional database systems.
A solution was needed, and it did arrive in the form of a serverless database. Now, the developers can create clusters in the minimum amount of time without taking over the management tasks of the database. But that is just a tiny task that a serverless database can perform. In this article, we will discuss the concept of serverless and a serverless database, its characteristics, why serverless is needed in the first place, some examples of a serverless database, and its advantages and disadvantages.