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Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

17 points by harporoeder 5y ago

Zenst 5y ago
Be interesting how it fits in with various business compliance regulations, rules and associated risk liabilities for such compliance. But the whole "Quantum", in the branding really does kinda irk me and you just know it is to help target the buzzword of the week management types in some way. Or the click-bait of the business world, yet that is who they are targeting - not your IT geeks. I see a few credible customers, but nothing in the finance sticking out. When that changes, that will be a seal of approval many will look towards.
- RL_Quine 5y ago
  By the same token, I’m pretty upset that MySQL doesn’t actually involve elephants or dolphins. A name is just a name, I doubt anybody could be fooled into thinking that this has anything to do with quantum computing.
  - Uehreka 5y ago
    I legit saw this title and thought “oh is this built on Amazon Braket?”, so I’d disagree that no one could be confused. Quantum Computing may be a while away, but a lot of companies are claiming to have launched “Quantum-ish” things, so when I see things like this I do in fact assume that they’re implying some relation to quantum computing or something else quantum.
  - perl4ever 5y ago
    I figure a joint venture with Quantum branding makes sense now that you can get mass storage for well under a dollar per MB: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Quantum-ELS127S-120MB-SCSI-3-5-3H/365888580 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Quantum-ELS127S-120MB-SCSI-3-5-3H... Just think how many they'll sell!
- dastbe 5y ago
  (i work at aws) so the name qldb is actually from an internal database that inspired the public offering. in naming that, the focus was around the quantization of individual changes (the minimum amount of data necessary!) in a ledger. hence, qldb. just be happy it doesn’t end with yay :).
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- morpheos137 5y ago
  The real question is how it incorporate AI or deep learning on the blockchain into its DNA.
belter 5y ago
Note this is not a new offer: Released for the first time in September 10, 2019 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcing-general-availability-qldb/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcin...
prepend 5y ago
What’s nice about this is that there is now a clear baseline whenever someone pitches blockchain as a solution. $100/month is fantastically less than most of the project ideas that all require lots of labor hours to set up and maintain. Every non-speculative blockchain application I’ve seen would have been met by just a distributed, immutable database. And I think the speculative use cases are morally wrong even though “make money by tricking people to buy” is uniquely met by a blockchain and not a db.
kangaroozach 5y ago
Relative to blockchains and since this is centralized, is there a trust issue? Sure it’s cryptographically verifiable, but is there a single entity that could somehow mess with it?
- tenfourwookie 5y ago
  “Owned by a central, trusted authority” made me laugh out loud. “PUT A FENCE AROUND IT, MAURICE!”

17 points by harporoeder 5y ago

Be interesting how it fits in with various business compliance regulations, rules and associated risk liabilities for such compliance. But the whole "Quantum", in the branding really does kinda irk me and you just know it is to help target the buzzword of the week management types in some way. Or the click-bait of the business world, yet that is who they are targeting - not your IT geeks. I see a few credible customers, but nothing in the finance sticking out. When that changes, that will be a seal of approval many will look towards.

RL_Quine 5y ago
By the same token, I’m pretty upset that MySQL doesn’t actually involve elephants or dolphins. A name is just a name, I doubt anybody could be fooled into thinking that this has anything to do with quantum computing.
- Uehreka 5y ago
  I legit saw this title and thought “oh is this built on Amazon Braket?”, so I’d disagree that no one could be confused. Quantum Computing may be a while away, but a lot of companies are claiming to have launched “Quantum-ish” things, so when I see things like this I do in fact assume that they’re implying some relation to quantum computing or something else quantum.
- perl4ever 5y ago
  I figure a joint venture with Quantum branding makes sense now that you can get mass storage for well under a dollar per MB: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Quantum-ELS127S-120MB-SCSI-3-5-3H/365888580 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Quantum-ELS127S-120MB-SCSI-3-5-3H... Just think how many they'll sell!
dastbe 5y ago
(i work at aws) so the name qldb is actually from an internal database that inspired the public offering. in naming that, the focus was around the quantization of individual changes (the minimum amount of data necessary!) in a ledger. hence, qldb. just be happy it doesn’t end with yay :).
- deleted 5y ago
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morpheos137 5y ago
The real question is how it incorporate AI or deep learning on the blockchain into its DNA.

belter 5y ago

Note this is not a new offer: Released for the first time in September 10, 2019 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcing-general-availability-qldb/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcin...

prepend 5y ago

What’s nice about this is that there is now a clear baseline whenever someone pitches blockchain as a solution. $100/month is fantastically less than most of the project ideas that all require lots of labor hours to set up and maintain. Every non-speculative blockchain application I’ve seen would have been met by just a distributed, immutable database. And I think the speculative use cases are morally wrong even though “make money by tricking people to buy” is uniquely met by a blockchain and not a db.

kangaroozach 5y ago

Relative to blockchains and since this is centralized, is there a trust issue? Sure it’s cryptographically verifiable, but is there a single entity that could somehow mess with it?

tenfourwookie 5y ago
“Owned by a central, trusted authority” made me laugh out loud. “PUT A FENCE AROUND IT, MAURICE!”