Determining the performance of the databases in the context of Cloud Governance

The maturation of Cloud Computing technologies, cumulated with the opportunities for Small and Medium Enterprises to migrate their activities into the Cloud, have led to new marketplaces where the competition with the large enterprises can be sustained through Platform-as-a-Service solutions combined with cloud Governance. Having a Cloud Governance solution that offers support for the services lifecycle, it creates the framework for a reliable and complex persistence layer that will store the data produced and consumed during the cloud governance processes. Choosing the appropriate databases for the datastores implementations is a very important step in designing a reliable cloud governance system. This paper focuses on establishing the requirements for the subsystems composing the datastores and determining the performances of two representative database types that are candidates to be used in various datastores.