satine.org — Announced today, Amazon SimpleDB is an amazingly simple, highly available, fast, massively scalable, on-demand, schema-free database cluster built in the same spirit as Amazon S3 and EC2. Check out this article and see what you can do with it.
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felixdaahackDec 14, 2007
Another blog reposting website content :|Actual Link to info: <a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=34233501">http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=34233501</a> ...
Closed AccountDec 14, 2007
Grrrr...! Dead links make me want to beat my wife! So do cold days and the color orange!brb...
strictneinDec 14, 2007
What? This isn't for hosting your personal data and the government doesn't care about you.
galahanDec 14, 2007
You certainly are. The difference is in costs of administration of those databases, along with administration and maintenance of the server infrastructure. And as a plus you can scale your system at any time because it can instantly leverage on all the computing resources they have there. The whole idea behind Amazon's webservices is displacing server costs, which is especially attractive to small and/or growing businesses.
ericthegreyDec 15, 2007
Heh. If anybody gave me a "humping USB dog" I'd have to hit them.However, I think I will get my sister that alarm clock. She cannot ever get up on time... :)I'll have to be prepared to run though... EtG
centinallDec 15, 2007
Are there any other companies out there providing similar services as Amazon? The only service that I can think of that's close to this is Google Base, but I don't think it's as functional or even meant for "Enterprise" as this SimpleDB service seems to be targeted for. Perhaps Oracle will also get in this arena soon and provide a similar service. I wonder if SimpleDB is actually running Oracle behind the scenes? As far as a comparable service to EC2, there's Sun Grid. At $1/CPU-hr vs. $0.10 per GB, I wonder which is the better deal?I love all of these options that are becoming available.<a class="user" href="http://base.google.com/">http://base.google.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.sun.com/service/sungrid/index.jsp">http://www.sun.com/service/sungrid/index.jsp</a>
vicayaDec 15, 2007
10GB max table ('domain') size at 10x the price of S3. I really can't think of a case, where I want to use it instead of something better (including S3).