What is a Serverless (Relational) Database?

1 · CockroachDB · Oct. 15, 2021, 1:20 a.m.
Before we define what a serverless database is, perhaps we should talk about why there seems to be building momentum behind this general paradigm. While the market dynamics are complex, there are two major factors that are driving us to serverless:  First, few developers actually enjoy managing their services and apps. Operations are a necessary evil, but serverless can promise a departure from these tasks or at least a method of abstracting them into the background....