Chris Bell shares a version of Stretch databases for people with budgets:
Stretch databases were going to provide “Cost-effective” availability for cold data, and unlike typical cold data storage, our data would always be online and available to query. Applications would not need to be modified to work with the seamless design of the stretch database. Run a query, and the data was there being pulled from the cloud when needed. Streamlining on-premises data maintenance by reducing the local footprint of the data files as well as the size of backups! It was even going to be possible to keep data secure via encrypted connections to the cloud and in theory, make a migration to the cloud even easier.
It was destined to be a major win!
Then the price was mentioned.
Do you know anyone using stretch databases today?
Yeah, me neither.
It’s an interesting workaround with several moving parts.