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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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How to do a SimpleDB Backup?

I'm developing a Facebook application that uses SimpleDB to store its data, but I've realized Amazon does not provide a way to backup that data (at least that I know of) And SimpleDB is slow. You can get about 4 lists per second, each list of 100…
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Need a step by step guide to host a website on AWS

I've been browsing for a week on how to use AWS. I've always been using cpanel (I'm new to web) but someone recommended AWS to me. From the info I pieced together from various websites, I think I'm supposed to do the following?: 1) copy my website…
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Amazon SimpleDB high latency on first request

I'm using SimpleDB in a desktop application (C#, .NET 2.0) and have a problem with high latency. The first time I make a request to the DB (query, insert values - doesn't matter) I get a response only after about 10-20 seconds. This happens only…
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Amazon SimpleDB Javascript interface possible?

I'm checking out amazon simpledb documentation. They mention only server side languages. Is there anyway to insert data into the db directly from the client side without going through a server? If not, how come?
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Question about Non-Relational Databases (NoSQL)

Although I've not yet used any of the new NoSQL databases I've tried to keep myself informed by reading Wikipedia articles, blogs and the peeking into some of the NoSQL DBs documentation. I've just (re)read the August 2009 edition of php|architect,…
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Best 'logging' option on Amazon Cloud. RDS or SimpleDB?

My site's architecture includes ASP.Net & MySQL. I am planning to deploy it on Amazon Cloud. This would mean EC2 instance(s) and RDS. My query is regarding logging. I'm ensuring that my application is stateless, so logging on application tier is…
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SimpleDB direct client access

One of the useful things about S3 for content storage is that a client can directly make a direct HTTP request to download the object. For instance, this is how Twitter serve up avatar images. SimpleDB provides an HTTP interface to data. Rather than…
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Enumerate keys in Amazon SimpleDB

I'm trying to enumerate keys in Amazon SimpleDB. In SQL, it would be something like: select unique itemName() from domain; I've searched around but didn't find any way to do this. Any help?
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Is Amazon SimpleDB more reliable/available than DynamoDB?

This question is not about a general comparison between the two but more specifically focussed on high availability and reliability. From amazon's documentation about this: SimpleDB Amazon SimpleDB automatically creates multiple geographically…
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Get SimpleDB attribute without looping through all attributes for an item

I would like to check an attribute using C# and SimpleDB without having to loop through all the attributes for a specific item. For example, if I have my domain: "MyDomain", and I have three attributes for an item (the item is:…
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Distributed Counter on AWS

I have multiple instances of a service running on multiple EC2 instances and I need a global counter which all instances of the service can access. The counter needs to support set/reset and increment operations. My first attempt to build this was…
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Suitability of Amazon SimpleDB for large temporal data sets eminating from thousands of separate devices

I'm trying to establish whether Amazon SimpleDB is suitable for a subset of data I have. I have thousands of deployed autonomous sensor devices recording data. Each sensor device essentially reports a couple of values four times an hour each day,…
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Are there databases which work like Amazon SimpleDB which can be run locally?

I really like the way how Amazon SimpleDB works: Attribute=Value(s) store and SELECT statements. I'm wondering if there are any alternatives out there which work the same way but can be installed locally on my devbox and servers? I've seen one open…
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Amazon SimpleDB & DynamoDB for storing blog posts

Consider a simple blog post schema has the following columns ID Author Category Status CreatedDateTime UpdatedDateTime So assume the following queries query by ID query by Author, paginated query by (Author, Status), sorted by CreatedDateTime,…
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Where is amazon simpledb?

Usually one can find amazon service using the search feature, but simpledb yields nothing. I know it's not an active project but has it disappeared completely? If not, how to find it in the console?
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