Enable configurability of data storage for OpenStack DBaaS (Trove)

Currently Trove stores persistent data either on ephemeral volume, or an attached cinder volume. This is restrictive and it would be beneficial for Trove to be able to interface with some other kinds of abstractions. One example is to be able to store data on Manila based folders. I am specifically looking into the...

One mechanism to do a backup is to take a snapshot of the storage volume. for OpenStack DBaaS (Trove)

One mechanism to do a backup is to take a snapshot of the storage volume. You would restore by cloning the snapshot and instantiating a new volume from it. This BP is being filed merely to indicate that I'm investigating this capability. At a later time, a trove-spec in the trove-specs project will be filed.

Add support for hbase and other hadoop based databases in Trove for OpenStack DBaaS (Trove)

Add support for hbase and other hadoop based databases in Trove, providing users of Trove the ability to manipulate and use a rich set of Hadoop based databases.