Acidus wrote:

On Tuesday, software-as-a-service company Zoho announced CloudSQL: a new, cloud-friendly middleware layer giving cloud applications access to its SaaS reporting and database software, Zoho Reports. Though still in its early stages of development, CloudSQL will bridge the gap between software-as-a-service, cloud computing, and on-premises software by allowing cloud developers to access data on Zoho's servers through web services, and on-premises developers to access it using SQL as if it were a conventional database.

Latency?

Ya, the latency would be terrible. And forget about returning large result sets (e.g customer reports). Also, using server side cursors for walking large result sets would flat not work. I like the concept of cloud computing when the DB is on or is local to the server your hosted on, but calling outside for SQL results could be brutal.

Ray

RE: CloudSQL?