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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 store pointer to S3 objects in Amazon SimpleDB?

I'm trying to figure out how to store a database consisting of metadata in Amazon SimpleDB, with the actual content the metadata refers to (videos) in S3. As I understand it, I should place a pointer in SimpleDB that refers to the videos in S3. What…
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How do you import Big Data public data sets into AWS?

Loading any of Amazon's listed public data sets (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets) would take a lot of resources and bandwidth. What's the best way to import them into AWS so you start working with them quickly?
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Possible to add a new column to an Amazon SimpleDB domain with a default value?

You can dynamically put a new attribute on a single record in a domain, but that attribute remains null for all other records. Is there an "update * set newattribute='defaultval" style statement that I can execute that will add the new attribute to…
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Update multiple items in Amazons SimpleDB

Can you update all items in a domain based on the attribute value without selecting all the matching items an then updating the items one by one? Say I have a contacts database and I want to update the region field to 'Southwest' for all items with…
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What datastore should I use to store temporary data from crawlers?

My crawler is crawling all websites and getting metadata information from them. I then will run a script to sanitize the URLs and store them in Amazon RDS. My problem is what datastore should I use to store data for sanitization purpose (Delete…
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Best way to deal with 900,000 record database and zip codes?

A company we do business with wants to give us a 1.2 gb CSV file every day containing about 900,000 product listings. Only a small portion of the file changes every day, maybe less than 0.5%, and it's really just products being added or dropped,…
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iterating over SimpleXML Objext PHP

Here is what my object looks like with print_r (this is an object returned by the PHP SDK for the Amazon Web Services Simple DB. [GetAttributesResult] => CFSimpleXML Object ( [Attribute] => Array ( …
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Computing an HMAC-SHA signature

I'm writing a module for Amazon's SimpleDB. They require REST requests to be signed using HMAC-SHA algorithm. (Details here.) I'm told that there is a function to computer this signature, but I can't find it in the documentation. What is the…
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SimpleDB timestamp on insert

I am working on a game on the iPhone that will use SimpleDB for game data storage and I'd like to be able to timeout some database entries. I figure i'll have some cron job that looks at the timestamp of each entry and if it's delta is greater than…
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SimpleDB dialect for NHibernate

Do you know if there is a way of using Amazon SimpleDB with NHibernate? LightSpeed seems to be compatible.
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Integrating Django with Amazon's Database 'SimpleDB'

Can somebody guide me to develop a django app with SimpleDB(Amazon's Database) as its database. I couldnt find any tutorials on searching. Can somebody help me by explaining the process involved in integrating Django with SimplDB for creating a…
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Simple DB accessing

I'm using Java. Instead of using AmazonSimpleDB sdb = new AmazonSimpleDBClient(new PropertiesCredentials( new File("/AwsCredentials.properties"))); is there anyway to store the credential information (the accesskey and…
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Has anyone tried building an ASP.NET Session State Provider for Amazon SimpleDB?

If not, are there any fundamental limitations of the service that prevent one from being built?
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SimpleDB query on attribute name

I don't know something like this is possible or not with simpledb. I am trying to use following type of simpledb data structure. Each item has multiple name/value pairs (name here is attribute-name) e.g. item1 serial_num -> value item2 …
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Connect resque to other key-value DB than redis?

I just read a little about resque here and how you use redis as a "advanced key-value store" for the jobs. As you might know you can use resque on multiple machines to process the jobs: Workers can be given multiple queues (a "queue list") and run…
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