Felix Gessert is a PhD student in the database group at the University of Hamburg. His research project for his PhD focuses on cloud database startups. In the presentation, Gessert categorizes different types of cloud databases including database-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, managed RDBMS/DWH/NoSQL databases, proprietary databases/object stores, backend-as-a-service, analytics-as-a-service, and cloud-deployed databases. He then discusses common aspects of database-as-a-service including multi-tenancy approaches, billing models, authentication, authorization, and service level agreements.