Meta-database
Cloudia platform offers the possibility of creating a meta-database. It is therefore very easy to transfer any thinkable 1:n relation (e.g. a user and his/her orders, comments of an article, rating of an image) or a relation of the type n:m (an order containing products, products linked to various accessories, etc.) to an application in Cloudia. To create such a scheme and put it into effect is, with the knowledge of the technology, a very quick matter. In addition to that, immediately after defining the database scheme it is possible to exploit all the possibilities of the administrative interface and to fill the created structure with actual data. The result will be instantly available on the web.
Cloudia is thus a fairly effective prototyping tool for database applications, complemented by a comfortable administrative interface. Furthermore, in order to use the tool, it is not necessary to be familiar with any database technology; it is enough to describe the data structure scheme corresponding to the desired application.
Note: The term “meta-database” is used since no actual database tables are created; it is only the relation among various articles that is defined (on the level of article types). Due to the manner of realization within Cloudia, this does not result in any performance loss.
Web application
Meta-database
Event-driven
ExtJS / Sencha
Multi-site
Template engine
DRY
Application development
