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Dynamo is not a new database product. Sure, their SaaS offering is new, but Dynamo has been used internally at Amazon since atleast 2007, when they published a
by stevencorona 14y ago
Dynamo is not a new database product. Sure, their SaaS offering is new, but Dynamo has been used internally at Amazon since atleast 2007, when they published a whitepaper on it. Dynamo was inspired by BigTable.
Sure, when you break it down S3 is just a big key-value store, but Dynamo is a much closer comparison to BigTable.
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
- jedberg 14y agoYes, I've read the Dynamo paper too and I know all about it's history at Amazon. I give talks on this subject all the time. My point was that you're being short sighted by taking away the credibility of the author for calling S3 a database, which many people do, and especially did in 2010.
- StavrosK 14y agoHey, Jeremy, you used to use Cassandra at reddit, no? I seem to remember it caused you many problems, is that the case? Have you used it/would you recommend it nowadays? Maybe I should start a StackOverflow thread, or make a mini-site where people can opine about various technology products. I find myself looking for opinions every time I'm thinking of using a new piece of software for my business.