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The Voidspace Techie Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Giles Thomas, the CEO & CTO (or 'dear leader' as he likes to be called) of Resolver Systems has put together some tutorials on using Amazon SimpleDB with IronPython and Resolver One: Amazon SimpleDB and IronPython Importing from Amazon SimpleDB into Resolver One Amazon SimpleDB is a cut-down database system, and as such it structures data quite...
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OakLeaf Systems (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The entry of the Google App Engine into the "Data Stores in the Cloud" arena on April 7, 2008 increases the number of Storage as a Service (StaaS') players to three. Here's a brief highlight of their features in the order of their arrival as beta versions: SimpleDB is a non-relational data store running under Erlang that offers only a string data type. SimpleDB offers a REST-style API...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
More on Google App Engine Yesterday Google launched Google App Engine , a platform that lets people create web applications and run them on Google's infrastructure. It's a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as EC2 , S3 , and SimpleDB but, unlike AWS, it's free for small web apps (where small means about 5M pageviews per month) and it seems more integrated as an end-to-end service....
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Still searching? (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Google has just released “Google App Engine” - which will let you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. It sounds similar to Amazon’s offerings (S3, EC2 and SimpleDB) and the ill-fated Zimki: Dynamic webserving Persistent storage Automatic scaling and load balancing APIs for authenticating users and sending email Fully featured local development environment Python is the only...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Mathew Ingram submits: Call it a clash of competing clouds. It seems that Google (GOOG) is launching an application-hosting service that appears to be going head-to-head with Amazon’s (AMZN) trio of distributed computing services — the EC2 computing network, the S3 storage service and the SimpleDB database offering, all of which provide a kind of back-end in a box for companies that want to...
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Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
SimpleDB is different from its competitors because it stores structured data and has its sights on eventually replacing traditional databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or mysql. Traditionally, I see business using relational databases, so transitioning into data storage services has interesting implications for entrepreneurs trying to create a highly scalable web-based system. Inexpensive...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Eating S'mores on a cloud If you believe TechCrunch - and that's a big IF - Google is on the verge of unveiling a web-based database service along the lines of Amazon's SimpleDB.…
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Geoff Arnold (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The book of the moment is James Murty’s “Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB”. It’s a really nicely-written introduction and tutorial for our utility computing services, with plenty of sample code that just works. Highly recommended. Murty chose to write his examples in Ruby, which pushed one of my buttons. I have [...]
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Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes [...]
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Looks like Google plans to join the "data in the cloud" party, e.g., with Amazon (S3, SimpleDB) and Microsoft (SQL Server Data Services) TechCrunch is speculating that Google may begin the first major phase of becoming an infrastructure provider for developers by exposing its Bigtable data storage system as a Web service. This service would be similar to Amazon's SimpleDB service , which...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Amazon has a cool article on how to use Active Resource as a consumer for SimpleDB through the AWS SDB Proxy for Rails .
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Amazon's web services get a ton of press, but mostly in the context of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB or one of the company's other developer-centric offerings. One that doesn't get much coverage in the tech media these days is the Mechanical Turk service, which Amazon refers to as the "on-demand workforce." When it does get coverage, it is sometimes...
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Amazon Web Services Blog (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Jay Ridgeway from ShareThis.com co-presented with me at ETech recently. We were telling a packed room about Amazon SimpleDB, and Jay was specifically telling folks about how ShareThis implemented this Web service. You should check out their site--it's a great...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... be able to give you more details. In the meantime, can we agree that SSDS is simple but it is not SimpleDB. The Long Term Store cast : It is simple, but it is not SimpleDB
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
There are press articles and some blog posts here and here that is comparing SQL Server Data Services to Amazon SimpleDB or S3. If we look at the data model and query capabilities of SSDS as described by Nigel Ellis here, it is not hard to see why. The data model is entities scoped to containers. Containers can contain a heterogeneous collection of entities. The key is that there is no requirement...
