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Amazon Simple DB with IronPython and Resolver One (plus Other News) (The Voidspace Techie Blog)

Thu, 01 May 2008 23:48:27 GMT

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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Comparing Google App Engine, Amazon SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services (OakLeaf Systems)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:24:00 GMT

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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Mark Logic CEO Blog: Google Launches Google App Engine (Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:57:00 GMT

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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Google App Engine (Still searching?)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:37:39 GMT

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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Google App Engine: Amazon Competitor or Knock-Off? (Seeking Alpha)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:37:36 GMT

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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Database in the Sky - MSNBC- Topic: Technology (Technology Blog)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:44:38 GMT

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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Google to launch database service from Campfire (The Register)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:39:41 GMT

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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AWS and Ruby (Geoff Arnold)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:58:01 GMT

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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Google To Launch Database Web Service Using BigTable? (Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:51:42 GMT

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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Is Google bringing Bigtable out of the closet? | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com (Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check)

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:22:00 GMT

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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Use Active Resource with SimpleDB (Planet Intertwingly)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:45:00 GMT

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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Amazon's Other Service: A Virtual Sweatshop? Actually, No (ReadWriteWeb)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:02:19 GMT

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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On Using AWS in Loosely-Coupled SOA (Amazon Web Services Blog)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:36:06 GMT

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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The Long Term Store cast : It [SQL Server Data Services] is simple, but it is not SimpleDB (Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:23:00 GMT

... 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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It is simple, but it is not SimpleDB (MSDN Blogs)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:50:00 GMT

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...

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Amazon Web Services gets some competition (Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:08:19 GMT

Microsoft has jumped into the cloud data/computing game with their SQLServer Data Services. They say it's built on SQL Server, but it sounds an awful lot like Amazon's SimpleDB. This is all good; the more the merrier, I say. Technorati Tags: microsoft , cloud computing , amazon

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Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB (Venture Chronicles)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:32:53 GMT

... So what is (and isn't) SSDS, exactly? [From Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB ] While the idea of taking down Oracle’s database business is indeed appealing to me, I doubt that will be the outcome of both SimpleDB and SDSS (seriously, why the hell can't Microsoft acronyms as product names habit') because for the time being the core enterprise software market...

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SQL Server Data Services (MSDN Blogs)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:33:36 GMT

Microsoft is now getting into the lightweight database game with SQL Server Data Services . It looks to follow a similar pattern to simpleDB and CouchDB with named, attribute pairs in a flat storage space and accessibility through REST. Some of the interesting things they are bringing to the game: Query data using LINQ Property support for simple data types (string, numeric, date, boolean)...

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Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com (Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:38:00 GMT

... and social-networking apps, among others. Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

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News to know: Microsoft vs. Amazon; Cracking wireless LANs; iPhone; AMD (Between the Lines)

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:21:37 GMT

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB George Ou: New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs Forbes: Gates no longer the richest man John Morris: Samsung bets on SSDs and mobile hard drives Photos: Cracking open the MacBook Air Larry Dignan: Does Adobe really need the iPhone? Not really Steve...

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