Abstract
A Cloud database management system is a distributed database that delivers
computing as a service instead of a product. It is the sharing of resources, software, and
information between multiple devices over a network which is mostly the internet. It is
expected that this number will grow significantly in the future. As a result, there is a
growing interest in outsourcing database management tasks to third parties that can
provide these tasks for much lower cost due to the economy of scale just like putting it
into the cloud. In this paper, we discuss the recent trend in database management system
and the possibilities of making it as one of the services offered in the cloud. We also
proposed an architecture of database management system in the cloud.