Life is grand

SimpleDB comes to light

Amazon’s SimpleDB is a really interesting piece of technology. It isn’t MySQL/SQL Server in the cloud but as many are commenting most of us don’t need a full-blown RMDBS for our web-apps. We need data persistence and querying; a scalable data hash with a decent query system. SimpleDB seems to be that.

Inside Out has a good initial write-up on it including a bit on the schema-less nature of SimpleDB. It is more like an XML document store than a relational database.

I am looking forward to some Ruby on Rails adapters for this.

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