Explain why the cost of ownership may be lower with a cloud database than with a traditional, company database.

Cloud database eliminates the need for establishing and maintaining data centres.

Explanation:

Cloud computing provides an organisation with the infrastructure they need but can not afford. A large online storage with access control policies is available based to subscription.

For a company to establish a data centre, they would need a team of skilled network engineers, fleet of high speed server systems and large storage devices.

The daily power supply and management, coupled with the needed skills and items, can be overwhelming for a company whose main objective is not to deliver database services. So cloud computing is adopted to reduce the cost.