In traditional Database as a Service (DBaaS) models, developers who rent hardware must provision a specific number of servers and capacity. This can be difficult because hardware and capacity requirements can change quickly. Furthermore, developers can be penalised for going beyond what they provisioned and possibly suffer from related performance issues. Conversely, developers may be subject to paying for capacity that is never used. With Clusterpoint’s cloud-based database, resources are allocated upon need and accounted per request on millisecond granularity. The resulting cost and performance benefit can be 3X or even 10X, compared traditional service models, and absolutely no hardware provisioning is required. In Clusterpoint's cloud, the developer’s database request can be instantly distributed among hundreds of servers in parallel, significantly reducing clock time to get a result.