Comments on: Amazon announces SimpleDB (in Beta)

By: Jorge Oliveira

Jorge Oliveira — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:00:33 +0000

I’m waiting for your article on EC2

And since you are one of the biggest AWS customers, you could put some pressure on static ip, load balancing, CDN and persistant storage availability?

Keep up the good work!!!

By: ana

ana — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:33:46 +0000

Hi Dan

Did you mean that you also pay for the Amazon DB?

Why you don’t build your own DB for your organization?

Where did you face the problem of latency?

What is EC2 mean?

By: Alex Le

Alex Le — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:36:39 +0000

Hello Don!

I can’t wait to hear your experience with EC2. I always enjoy reading your blog. I’m putting together some web services as well and I would love to learn from your experience with EC2.

Regards,

Alex

By: Monk

Monk — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:16:49 +0000

People are not looking at the whole picture though.

The ‘inside looking out’ article says ‘Really large data sets’ are cool, but Amazon says ‘Amazon SimpleDB is designed to store relatively small amounts of data.’ As well, ’store data in lexicographical ordered form’ means no native data types which will adversely affect query performance since everything is text. Which also means that having multivalued attributes is really saying ‘a comma-delimited data field.’

Simple DB sounds like a decent offering; but it is not going to revolutionize databases. Directory services? Let’s hope so.

For more ranting, I wrote about this a couple days ago: http://dba4life.blogspot.com/2007/12/amazons-simpledb.html

By: bd_

bd_ — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:37:40 +0000

It looks like you’d need to get the captions one at a time anyway - GetAttributes only works on one item, and Query only returns the item names.

By: To Rule the Clouds Takes Software: Why Amazon SimpleDB is a Huge Next Step « SmoothSpan Blog

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:52:21 +0000

[...] - Latency is a problem when your database is in another datacenter from the rest of your code. Don MacAskill brings this one up, and all I can say is that this is another network effect that leads to more centralization. If you like Simple DB, it’s another reason to bring all of your code inside Amazon’s cloud. [...]