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I am trying to familiarize myself with both SimpleDB and iOS. I have a situation where I have created a database with simpleDB and I would like to pull the items into iOS and populate.

How would I do about doing this?

Liam
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Sample Code & Libraries

http://aws.amazon.com/code/Amazon-SimpleDB/4083

See more details at

http://simpledb.ios-aws.com/home/AwsOperations/BatchPutAttributes

Ashish Pancholi
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I am one of the maintainers of the AWS SDK for iOS:

https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforios/

The SDK offers support for SimpleDB and includes a sample for interacting with a SimpleDB domain:

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/8829919029640036

Bob Kinney
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  • That page lists a ton of Amazon services, but doesn't say that they do anything with SimpleDB. – Brad Jan 18 '15 at 02:27
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    This answer was written before the new v2 SDK was launched, but even the v2 SDK does support SimpleDB, even if it is not advertised on the marketing pages. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ios/tree/master/SimpleDB – Bob Kinney Jan 19 '15 at 19:04
  • Is this not really true anymore? It seems like the new MobileHub and all the iOS Swift sample code use DynamoDB exclusively. – James Toomey Jul 18 '16 at 03:30
  • @JamesToomey SimpleDB is still supported in the SDK. See [GitHub repository](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ios/tree/master/AWSSimpleDB). – Bob Kinney Jul 18 '16 at 16:53
  • Thanks for the link; the previous link appears to be dead ("SimpleDB" changed to "AWSSimpleDB"). Will the code ever be translated to Swift? Not a big deal because I can tackle it, it's just always nice when it's already done for you! – James Toomey Jul 20 '16 at 22:43
  • My question about a Swift translation isn't a laziness thing--it's more that it feels like SimpleDB might be "technically" supported but isn't the preferred tool. All the latest-and-greatest iOS & MobileHub samples really push DynamoDB over SimpleDB and RDS. SimpleDB doesn't even appear on the AWS Console--I didn't even know it existed until I happened across the name by accident, so you don't get the "try this cool thing out!" vibe at all--more like it's the backlot last year's model. – James Toomey Jul 20 '16 at 23:02
  • @JamesToomey I cannot comment on a Swift port of the SDK. As to the status of SimpleDB, we do recommend that new customers use DynamoDB instead, but the support is still there for legacy reasons. – Bob Kinney Jul 21 '16 at 00:10
  • @BobKinney, I don't see any iOS samples for RDS (Relational Database Service) at https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ios. Is this not supported? – James Toomey Jul 21 '16 at 21:09
  • @JamesToomey The RDS API is for managing the database, not getting data from it. Because it does not make much sense to create/start databases from a mobile client, it's not supported. If you want to connect to your RDS instance, you should use a client for the type of database (MySQL, Oracle, etc). – Bob Kinney Jul 21 '16 at 22:03
  • @BobKinney, Okay, got it, thanks. Sorry to keep bothering you about this, just trying to wrap my head around it all. – James Toomey Jul 21 '16 at 22:28