What Are Rich Cloud Services?

Remember when browser clients were display-only windows? When all the processing was done on dedicated application servers and the browser was merely the rendering engine for the output? This changed with the advent of AJAX, FLEX and other client environments that offered an application processing framework on the client-side. Applications built in these "Rich Client" frameworks offered a much improved user experience and has come to dominate the application landscape.

Apstrata is a complimentary idea on the server side. We are providing an equivalent leap in providing a Rich Cloud environment to use as a back end to your Rich Client application. Apstrata gives you More so you have to do Less.

As the diagram above shows, Apstrata provides more than the basic "store & retrieve" functionality of other Cloud-based database services. We provide many of the mature features you would expect from a traditional database as such as schema definitions, transactions and stored queries. We even provide full text searchas a default feature so you can do keyword searches as well as structured queries.

But Apstrata goes even further. We provide support for user management in our service. You can create and delete users, assign them to groups and authenticate them. And with our access control you can provide secure and permission-based access to the data that you store in Apstrata. Additionally, on our roadmap are powerful server-side execution capabilities that can act as event-driven workflow or Web Hook integration points.

Apstrata is an on-demand, elastic, Cloud-based service. This means that, in addition to the powerful development features outlined above, you can offload all of your operational tasks to us. We manage the fully replicated environment so you can offload your monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity, replication and backup tasks.

The power of an on-demand, elastic Cloud service. The ease of Apstrata services. That is what we call a Rich Cloud.