Questions tagged [amazon-simpledb]

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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Grails and Amazon SimpleDB

How to setup Grails project to use Amazon SimpleDB? One possibility is to install gorm-jpa plugin and use SimpleJPA library, but I couldn't setup it correctly. Has someone experience with this combination?
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How can I script an alert for when my Amazon Web Service usage goes above a certain amount?

We're using S3, SimpleDB and SQS on quite a complicated project. I'd like to be able to automatically track their usage, to be sure we don't suddenly spend large amounts of money when we didn't intend to (perhaps because of a bug). Is there a way of…
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Best database for high write (10000+ inserts/hour), low read (10 reads/second)?

I'm developing a web app and currently using sql server 2008 for it. But, I am considering moving to another database (simpledb) for improved performance. I have a background process that inserts up to 10000 rows every hour into one specific table.…
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Recommendations using R with SimpleDB or BigQuery or using PHP with SimpleDB

I am currently working on system that generated product recommendations like those on Amazon : "People who bought this also bought this.." Current Scenario: Extract the Google Analytics data of the client and insert it in database. On the website…
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What URL should I go to to create my simpleDB domain?

I can't figure out where I can go create a domain for my simpleDB. I've gone to AWS Management Console, I was able to create a bucket for S3, but I don't have a simple DB tab. Am I missing something here?
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Searching SimpleDB in a case-insensitive way

Since Amazon SimpleDB doesn't provide case-insensitive query, what w'd be the best way to do a case insensitive search for attributes in simpleDB ? One thing that can be done is including a separate attribute that is the lowercase version of each…
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How far can you really go with "eventual" consistency and no transactions (aka SimpleDB)?

I really want to use SimpleDB, but I worry that without real locking and transactions the entire system is fatally flawed. I understand that for high-read/low-write apps it makes sense, since eventually the system becomes consistent, but what about…
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Is there a database agnostic nosql framework for .NET?

I'm looking for a common data access framework that will provide portability across various nosql databases like SimpleDB, Azure Tables, Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDb, etc. I'm building an app and would like my customers to be able to use which ever…
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Amazon SimpleDB Identity Seed equivalent

Is there an equivalent to an identity Seed in SimpleDB? If the answer is no, how do you handle creating something like a customer number or order number that will prevent the creation duplicate numbers? My experience is mainly from SQL Server in…
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SimpleDB to ActiveResource. Rails

Im looking for a way to map an ActiveResource to SimpleDB I want to avoid plugins/gems as all I have used are outdated/buggy/not mantained It doesnt seem hard, I wonder if any of you have succesfully implemented a rails app with simpleDB as an…
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SimpleDB Select VS DynamoDB Scan

I am making a mobile iOS app. A user can create an account, and upload strings. It will be like twitter, you can follow people, have profile pictures etc. I cannot estimate the user base, but if the app takes off, the total dataset may be fairly…
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Spatial queries on AWS SimpleDB

I would like to know what people suggest as efficient ways of doing a spatial query in an Amazon Web Services SimpleDB? By spatial query I mean finding objects in a given radius of a latitude and longitude.
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Best database solution for Django on AWS

Good morning, I am currently looking at deploying a Django app on a EC2 instance, but everything is getting too confusing for me! I understand that Django has built-in implementation for MySQL, PSQL, and SQLite. Now, Amazon has RDS (MySQL), SimpleDB…
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Best way to keyword search Amazon SimpleDB using EC2 and Asp.Net?

I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the best way to perform keyword searches on Amazon SimpleDB from an EC2 Asp.Net application. A couple options I am considering are: 1) Add keywords to a multi-value attribute and search with a query…
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How to handle request timeout(408) error in boto?

We are using domain.select() method, that boto provides, to query SimpleDB. For smaller queries(queries involving couple of hours of data), this method works fine. But when I start using multiple threads and longer queries(24 hours of data), it…
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