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I'll back this up with the addendum that SimpleDB has useful applications where using it might be a better choice than MySQL (e.g. a service that gets lots of r
by latortuga 17y ago
I'll back this up with the addendum that SimpleDB has useful applications where using it might be a better choice than MySQL (e.g. a service that gets lots of reads but real-time updates isn't necessarily mission critical)
- keefe 17y agoI think it's also interesting to note that once you do a cluster, you have a distributed system and instantaneous writes are no longer a cheap operation... Plus how many operations do you need to access full data in your database? For simple one off access, you could propagate the changes into ram on each of your cluster machines (memcached) and only relatively "unimportant" search operations would see stale data.