Abstract: Technologies are described for migrating deployment infrastructure containers. Deployment infrastructure containers are used for isolating and deploying related database objects together. Deployment infrastructure containers can store design-time artifacts and run-time artifacts. Deployment infrastructure containers can be migrated using a first migration technique in which catalog objects are migrated from a source database system to a target database system and updated to work in the target database system (e.g., by updating metadata). Deployment infrastructure containers can also be migrated using a second migration technique that migrates design-time artifacts and builds the design-time artifacts at the target database system to re-create the run-time artifacts. Migrated deployment infrastructure containers can be integrated into the target environment, which can include creating new service instances and associating them with the migrated deployment infrastructure containers.

Abstract: A physio-logical migration of a database from a source system to a target system may include exporting a catalog of the database in a data interchange format that preserves the hierarchical dependencies present amongst the entities included in the catalog. The physio-logical migration of the database may further include exporting the contents of a table in the database in a binary format compatible at the target system. The binary format may be a data buffer having a metadata portion, a fixed-size portion, and a page chain portion. Where the target system is a cloud-based system, the physio-logical migration of the database may include exporting the catalog and the contents of the table to a cloud-based object store before importing the catalog and the contents of the table to the target system. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.