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Highly available schema-less attribute database that is part of the Amazon Web Services offering. Enables storage and retrieval of named items consisting of one or more key/value string pairs organized into domains. Item retrieval is done either by item name gets or through a sql-like language. Pay for what you use model with no minimum fees or startup costs.

Amazon SimpleDB is a highly available schema-less attribute database that is part of the Amazon Web Services offering. Enables storage and retrieval of named items consisting of one or more key/value string pairs organized into domains. Item retrieval is done either by item name gets or through a sql-like language. Pay for what you use model with no minimum fees or startup costs.

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Amazon SimpleDB vs Amazon DynamoDB

I have some basic understanding what Amazon SimpleDB is, but according to the Amazon DynamoDB description it seems to be almost the same: a NoSQL Key-value store service. Can someone simply explain the main differences between them and tell in which…
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What's the point of using Amazon SimpleDB?

I thought that I could use SimpleDB to take care of the most challenging area of my application (as far as scaling goes) - twitter-like comments, but with location on top - till the point when I sat down to actually start implementing it with…
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MongoDB on EC2 server or AWS SimpleDB?

What scenario makes more sense - host several EC2 instances with MongoDB installed, or much rather use the Amazon SimpleDB webservice? When having several EC2 instances with MongoDB I have the problem of setting the instance up by myself. When using…
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bigtable vs cassandra vs simpledb vs dynamo vs couchdb vs hypertable vs riak vs hbase, what do they have in common?

Sorry if this question is somewhat subjective. I am new to 'could store', 'distributed store' or some concepts like this. I really wonder what do they have in common and want to get an overview on all of them. What do I need to prepare if I want to…
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Eventual Consistency

I am in the early stages of design of an application that has to be highly available and scalable. I want to use an eventual consistency data model for this for a number of reasons. I know and understand why this is an unpopular architectural choice…
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Looping through a SimpleXML object, or turning the whole thing into an array

I'm trying to work out how to iterate though a returned SimpleXML object. I'm using a toolkit called Tarzan AWS, which connects to Amazon Web Services (SimpleDB, S3, EC2, etc). I'm specifically using SimpleDB. I can put data into the Amazon SimpleDB…
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Is SimpleDB similar to MongoDB? Are they both key/value type databases?

Is SimpleDB similar to MongoDB?
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Impact of AWS Account Identifiers

I'm using Amazon's tools to build a web app. I'm very happy with them, but I have a security concern. Right now, I'm using multiple EC2 instances, S3, SimpleDB and SQS. In order to authenticate requests to the different services, you include your…
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Pro's of databases like BigTable, SimpleDB

New school datastore paradigms like Google BigTable and Amazon SimpleDB are specifically designed for scalability, among other things. Basically, disallowing joins and denormalization are the ways this is being accomplished. In this topic, however,…
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Difference between SimpleDB and S3

I am wondering what's the real technical difference between Amazon S3 and Amazon SimpleDB. From my little understanding, both can be used to store and retrieve key/value pairs. So in what scenario would I need SimpleDB instead of S3? How is SimpleDB…
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Cassandra Vs Amazon SimpleDB

I'm working on an application where data size and SQL queries are going to be heavy. I am thinking between Cassandra or Amazon SimpleDB. Can you please suggest which is more suitable in this kind of scenario? Cassandra data indexing seems better…
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SimpleDB Manager

anyone know a decent SimpleDB Manager Tool, web-based or Mac, preferably free? I am surprised AWS doesn't have one built-in.
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Amazon SimpleDB

Has anyone considered using something along the lines of the Amazon SimpleDB data store as their backend database? SQL Server hosting (at least in the UK) is expensive so could something like this along with cloud file storage (S3) be used for…
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Will using a Cloud PaaS automatically solve scalability issues?

I'm currently looking for a Cloud PaaS that will allow me to scale an application to handle anything between 1 user and 10 Million+ users ... I've never worked on anything this big and the big question that I can't seem to get a clear answer for is…
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Amazon SimpleDB vs Amazon RDS

I work at a small ecommerce site and we're looking to move to all Amazon hosted services and I'm unsure the exact difference in RDS and SimpleDB. RDS can use MySQL, can SimpleDB not?
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