Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS)
Flexible as IaaS. Easy as PaaS. Expert DBAs.
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Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) is a revolutionary new solution for companies seeking to break away from the constraints imposed by cloud vendors. With Silk Cloud DBaaS, you have the freedom to choose any VM shape, any version, any cloud, and any database, tailored precisely to your performance and capacity needs. Say goodbye to forced updates and patching schedules – with Silk, you dictate when updates occur, ensuring seamless operations on your terms.
In addition, our expert DBA team stands ready 24/7/365 to handle maintenance and troubleshooting, empowering your internal team to focus on strategic initiatives. Seamlessly integrating robust data management capabilities, Silk Cloud DBaaS safeguards and extracts maximum value from your data assets. Embrace cost efficiency with minimized cloud resource expenditure and optimized software licensing. With Silk Cloud DBaaS, you can experience unparalleled flexibility and control in your cloud database journey.
Why Silk Cloud DBaaS?
Silk grants you mastery over your cloud stack. Deploy any database seamlessly on any major cloud, on any VM shape, with any database version and patch.
Unlock your organization’s data potential. Silk’s robust data management platform maximizes the value of your private data. Quickly and securely empower lower environments (Dev, QA, UAT) and AI/ML/analytics workloads with up-to-date data with minimal resource footprint, latency, or cloud cost.
Our holistic solution pairs our API-first automation with expert DBA support. Silk liberates your DBAs from mundane maintenance and troubleshooting, freeing their focus for strategic activities. Our DBAs also empower distributed application teams lacking database expertise.
Safely reduce the necessary cloud resources to their smallest configuration without compromising performance or availability. Minimize cloud resource costs and relevant software licensing, while freeing up resources to bring more of your workloads to the cloud or reinvest in innovation and growth.
Features and Functionalities
Lean Architecture
Enterprise Data Services
Expert DBA Support
Full Database Support
Instant Extract
AI / ML Pipeline
Custom Version and Patch
Secure, Resilient Stack
Optimized Cloud Costs
Comparing Silk Cloud DBaaS to Public Cloud PaaS
Silk Cloud DBaaS
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Google Cloud SQL
Any Database
Multi-database support
MS SQL Only per instance
MS SQL Only per instance
Any Version
Full database features. Your version and timing
Cloud enforces version; missing essential features
Cloud enforces version; missing essential features
High Performance
Up to 10 GB/s, 1M IOPS, sub-millisecond latency
Up to 0.45 GB/s, 320K IOPS, multi-millisecond latency
Up to 1.2 GB/s, 100K IOPS, multi-millisecond latency
Any Capacity
Unlimited capacity
Up to 16 TB
UP to 64 TB
Any VM Shape
Any cloud VM shape - up to 416 cores
Limited shapes - up to 128 cores
Limited shapes - up to 128 cores w/ Enterprise Plus
24x7x365 DBA Support
Included
Not available
Not available
Zero-Footprint Instant Extracts
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
Self-Healing Architecture
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
Create Cross-Zone High Availability
Supported
Supported
Supported
Proactive Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Included
Not available
Not available
Event Monitoring, Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Included
Automated monitoring and tuning - no DBAs in the loop
Automated monitoring and tuning - no DBAs in the loop
Right-size Database License Costs
Efficient VM shapes lead to fewer database licenses
Excess licenses from oversized VMs
Excess licenses from oversized VMs
Enterprise Data Services (Thin Provisioning, Compression, Deduplication)
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
Performance Pooling
Economies of scale as you grow
Elastic pools share hosts
Not supported
Efficient Data Sharing
Zero-footprint data sharing
Pay for full copies
Pay for full copies
See How Silk Cloud DBaaS Full Stacks Up!
Download our PDF for a full comparison of Silk Cloud DBaaS versus Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance and Google Cloud SQL.
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