Recovery framework for software-as-a-service data

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications may host their customers' information in a distributed environment that is not directly accessible to the customers. SaaS applications may store data in the form of relational tables, meaning that data is organized in tables that have hierarchical parent and child relationships. Snapshots for SaaS applications may maintain hierarchical relationships between computing objects and tables to enable cascading recovery of SaaS applications. Based on a request to restore a computing object of a relational SaaS application, a data management system (DMS) may identify the associated computing objects to be recovered with the requested computing object based on the stored hierarchical information, and may call the relevant application programming interfaces (APIs) to restore the requested computing object and the associated computing objects to be recovered with the requested computing object.