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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

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Re: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

#12

"Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs)" This is big.

I'd imagine we'll soon see a SSD option for EBS volumes. Sounds like it'll be pricier (as you'd expect) - $1/GB for DynamoDB storage (but replicated to three volumes, sounds like).

Re: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

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From the limits page(1) I see you can only have 256 tables per account. (1) http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/deve...

As with all the other AWS services you can have your limits lifted upon request.

Does that apply for the 50-per-account cap on S3 buckets as well?

Re: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

#14

Here's a brief overview comparison of DynamoDB vs. BigTable: http://vschart.com/compare/dynamo-db/vs/bigtable The site is also able to compare many other different databases.

It seems as if this site is a user-edited wiki, and there are a lot of things that need to be filled in (in case anybody is up to speed on DynamoDB and wants to help). For instance, the Map/Reduce entry was still '?' when I wrote this.

Re: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

#15
For about $15/month for minimal "reserved capacity" charges and $1/gigabyte per month replicated disk space this service looks like it will cure a lot of deployment headaches for a reasonable cost.

Interesting that when I signed up for the service that they verified my identity with a cellphone call, like Google sometimes does.

Re: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS

#20

I simply do not see how competing cloud vendors can keep up with this. Most of them are still struggling to provide anything beyond a simple API to start/stop machines.

Well, Azure has been offering a similar NoSQL service for a few years now.

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp11/current/2011-Cascais/printable...

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