What are the target customers and scenarios for SQL Server Data Services?
Target Customers: • Small to medium businesses looking to reduce their capital and operational cost of storing and maintaining high-volume data off-premise. • Developers and Service providers hosting data-intensive and mashup on-demand applications with minimal infrastructure investments in security, availability and manageability. • Enterprise customers building edge applications can collaborate on large or shared data sets.Target Customer Scenarios: • Archival data (e.g., aged data). • Reference data (e.g., catalogs). • Storing large amounts of structured or semi-structured data with a flexible schema definition or unstructured data with related structured metadata. • Running applications that can tolerate data access latency across the Internet. • Storing data that is naturally partitionable into disjoint data sets requiring little or no cross-correlations. • Running applications that have limited or batched data access. • Read-only or read-mostly data sets. • Typical scenarios incl