20140164440 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARED DATABASE ENVIRONMENT TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO DATABASES ON A SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE - A database system includes a back end and a front end. The back end contains data storage and a database engine, and the front end contains front end units, each of which allows an application developer to support a database user application requiring data storage. The application developer gets its own instance where it may define the content and format of data storage required by the application, and the front end units are connected to share the back end for common storage of their respective application data so that the developer does not have to provide the actual data storage. The system is useful for cloud-based computing paradigms. | 06-12-2014 |