US Patent 12111844 System and method for cloud-based replication of data

Embodiments provide systems, methods and computer program products for cloud replication of data. One embodiment includes, accessing a virtual table definition and a data collection definition, the virtual table definition comprising a definition of a set of virtual table fields and a mapping of the set of virtual table fields to a set of target data types; automatically creating a virtual table according to the virtual table definition, the virtual table comprising the set of virtual table fields populated with the data of interest according to the data collection definition; and sending the virtual table and the mapping to a cloud computing environment. One embodiment further includes, in the cloud computing environment, storing the set of virtual table fields as a set of physical table fields in a physical table in a cloud hosted database, the set of physical table fields having the set of target data types.