Chapter 1. Overview

Rackspace Cloud Databases is an OpenStack-based MySQL relational database service that allows Rackspace customers to easily provision database instances of varying virtual resource sizes without the need to maintain and/or update MySQL. Interactions with Cloud Databases occur programmatically via the Cloud Databases API as described in this developer guide.

	Note
	Rackspace recommends that Cloud Databases users back up their data using mysqldump until backups are supported in Cloud Databases.

The following figure shows an overview of Cloud Databases Infrastructure: