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I'm not sure if the sarcastic tone is meant to imply AWS is just a rehash of existing tools, but that's obviously not the case. A list of actual competing soft
by rlt 6y ago
I'm not sure if the sarcastic tone is meant to imply AWS is just a rehash of existing tools, but that's obviously not the case.
A list of actual competing software/products/services would be pretty useful.
- joana035 6y agoLet that sink in
- scarface74 6y agoEspecially since “EC2” is not just a VM. There are dozen services at least that come under EC2. Also if you start trying to use DynamoDB like you would Mongo, you’re going to be really upset. The use cases, design considerations and performance considerations of DynamoDB compared to Mongo is night and day.
- socceroos 6y agoOK substitute VM with OpenStack then.
- scarface74 6y agoI’m really not trying to sound like the “do people still watch TV” guy, but I thought OpenStack fell off the hype curve years ago. Do people still use it.
- unilynx 6y agoovh seems to have built its cloud products on top of it, and they're no small fry
- viraptor 6y ago> fell off the hype curve years ago. Do people still use it. Hype and usage are very different. It's not like a lot of people really used it during the hype either. There are a few places which actually need something like that and can't use k8s.
- takeda 6y agoActually DynamoDB unlike MongoDB is truly a distributed store, and it actually is closer to Cassandra, Riak (RIP), Aerospike maybe some others.
- scarface74 6y agoYes. But DynamoDB basically requires you to know your access patterns up front and isn’t that flexible when it comes to querying - yes I’ve watched all of the reInvent videos about how to properly model your DDB tables. That being said, if I needed the flexibility and wanted to stay in the AWS ecosystem, I would use DocumentDB with Mongo compatibility. It uses the same storage engine as Aurora, it’s much more flexible and it doesn’t have any of the well known downsides of Mongo.