Strategy
High Performance Multithreaded Access to Amazon SimpleDB is a great follow up to the idea in How SimpleDB Differs from a RDBMS that more programming is the price paid for performance in SimpleDB. It shows how much work and infrastructure is required to batter better performance out of SimpleDB. Remember,
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Update 2: Yurii responds with the Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Document Databases FUD. Update: Top 10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype by Ryan Park provides a well written counter take. Am I really that fawning? If so, doesn't that make me a dear? All your life
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Update: Zdnet says Ozzie signals Microsoft’s surrender to the cloud. CD ROMs are to the internet as the internet is to the cloud and Microsoft aims to scratch and claw its way into this paradigm shift as well. The gloves are off. The tag line for Microsoft's
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Not surprisingly opinions on SimpleDB vary from it sucks, don't take my database, to it will change the world, who needs a database anyway? From a quick survey of the blogosphere, here's where SimpleDB stands at the moment: SimpleDB Cons No SLA. We don't
General Discussion
Amazon has announced the limited beta of Amazon SimpleDB - a simple web services interface to create and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results. Together with the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other web services Amazon offers a complete utility