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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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Errors with AWS SimpleDB Javascript SDK

I'm trying to use AWS SimpleDB Javascript SDK. Here's the web page with my script:
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Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for AWS SimpleDB

I am trying to create a user account for Amazon Web Services to limit my risk if the credentials are compromised. I have set up a test user with credentials and am trying to create a custom permission so these credentials can only be used for an…
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Is there a production grade SimpleDB .NET library?

Here you will find all the SimpleDB code samples on the AWS page. Here you will find a VB.NET SimpleDB library. Is there a production grade SimpleDB library, preferable built in C#. If not, May I use the VB.NET library on a C# project as a…
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maximum size of attributes on AWS SimpleDB

I am in the process of building an mobile application (iPhone/Android) and want to store the application data onto Amazon's SimpleDB, because we do not want to host our own server to provide these services. I've been going through all of the…
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How can I protect Amazon SimpleDB from SQL Injection?

Under the principle of "if it walks like a duck and it sounds like a duck," it sure seems like the SQL-flavored queries that Amazon's SimpleDB supports should be susceptible to SQL injection-type attacks. Here's a simple example that assumes the…
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Amazon SimpleDB for development environment / local installation

Is there a way / tool to simulate Amazon's SimpleDB for the purpose of development? In my quest for above, I found this tool but this is for the Mac OS. Anything that can be installed on Win XP? Needless to say, all SimpleDB APIs need to be…
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How does Amazon.com function with a key-value datastore?

I have heard that Amazon uses a key-value data store - that it does not use a traditional relational normalized db. Speaking as someone who only has used the traditional approach, how does this work? Don't you need to do the following? select *…
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How to do paging with simpledb?

I know how to page forward with SimpleDB data by using NextToken. However, how exactly does one handle previous pages? I'm on .NET, but I don't think that matters. I'm more interested in the general strategy. Mike Culver's An Introduction to…
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How do implement schema changes in a NOSQL storage system

How do you manage a major schema change when you are using a Nosql store like SimpleDB? I know that I am still thinking in SQL terms, but after working with SimpleDB for a few weeks I need to make a change to a running database. I would like to…
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Service Discovery on Amazon AWS

does anyone have suggestions for dynamic service discovery on Amazon AWS? I am thinking about ZooKeeper but would like an approch that do not require running VM's.
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Non-relational databases (NoSQL) for small to medium sized applications

The benefits of a non-relational database (such as a key-value pair storage) are evident when used in large scale datasets (google, facebook, linkedin). How do you think small to medium sized applications can benefit from using non-relational…
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What do you need to take into consideration when deciding between MySQL and Amazon's SimpleDB for a RoR app?

I am just beginning to do research into the feasibility of using Amazon's SimpleDB service as the datastore for RoR application I am planning to build. We will be using EC2 for the web server, and had planned to also use EC2 for the MySQL servers.…
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Amazon SimpleDB Woes: Implementing counter attributes

Long story short, I'm rewriting a piece of a system and am looking for a way to store some hit counters in AWS SimpleDB. For those of you not familiar with SimpleDB, the (main) problem with storing counters is that the cloud propagation delay is…
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Scaling MongoDB on EC2 or should I just switch to DynamoDB?

I currently run my website on a single server with MongoDB. On my server I have two components (1) a crawler that runs hourly and appends data to my MongoDB instance (2) a web-site that reads from the crawler index and also writes to a user…
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Should I use CouchDB or SimpleDB?

I'm creating an application that will be hosted on amazon EC2 and a lot of the data that'll be saved is more document oriented (as well as saving tweets and such related to those documents). Right now I'm at a crossroads... should I use simpleDB or…
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