1. A system comprising: a fabric identifying: a set of data-tier application components, each of the data-tier application components including a logical representation of a collection of database elements; a set of database runtime resources hosting the set of data-tier application components; and computing resources used by the set of database runtime resources to host the set of data-tier application components; and a management point to receive a fabric policy, wherein one or more actions of the fabric policy are automatically applied to affected entities identified by the fabric to bring one or more fabric elements into compliance with the fabric policy.