We’re living in an on-demand world.

Mobile devices and social media have made everyone aware of the benefits of on-demand applications in our personal lives, and set an example for the ease-of-use and economies we should expect our business environment also.

Given the shortcomings of traditional databases, a new database architecture is necessary to support today’s SaaS requirements. This new approach must include SQL and ACID compliance capabilities to handle the mission-critical SaaS workloads that are typically assigned to relational database management systems (RDBMSs).

The rapid rise of SaaS has created new challenges for the software vendors providing these on-demand solutions.

The rapid growth of ‘on-demand’ services in the consumer world has helped to spark the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions in the business environment, producing a new set of opportunities and challenges for software companies.