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Details: Amazon SimpleDB

• DocSavage 19y ago
  Werner Vogel, Amazon's CTO, on Amazon Dynamo/SimpleDB: http://allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html http://allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html
  • cperciva 19y ago
    Whatever gave you the idea that SimpleDB was Dynamo? Werner has said quite explicitly that Dynamo is not and will not be exposed directly to potentially hostile users.
    • DocSavage 19y ago
      What gave me the idea that SimpleDB was powered by Dynamo technology: High-availability Key-value store, eventual consistency, targets small objects (< 1MB) that fits SimpleDB item restrictions (max 256 attribute/value pairs and each value < 1KB), and made by the same company. The web service would have to add authentication, enhanced querying, etc. I'm not on a first name basis with Mr. Vogels, so all I can see is the paper and his blog :) On Oct 2, he said Dynamo wasn't directly exposed as a web service. That doesn't preclude Dynamo technology (or related, tweaked-for-web-service software) from being used today for SimpleDB. I think all the Amazon web services have an internal version that's separated from us riff-raff. (I believe that after talking with some Amazon folks at an AWS meeting.) But you are right that it's speculation on my part that the Dynamo paper describes any aspect of SimpleDB.