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From the News Desk
Monday, 17. December 2007
Amazon Will Soon Launch Web Database
Amazon.com has said that it will soon begin a limited-release test of its SimpleDB, a Web-based database service that will be an upgrade of its current S3 storage offering.
Amazon SimpleDB is part of a suite of cloud-based infrastructure for running queries on structured data in real time. The company says the service works in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), which together provide the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.
SimpleDB "provides the core functionality of a database, real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data, without the operational complexity," according to information posted on Amazon.com's Web site. The database service will automatically index data and do performance tuning, allowing Web developers to work without the aid of a full-time database administrator, the company said.
The service is intended for smaller companies and developers with tighter budgets since users can scale their applications and create new domains as their data grows instead of having to pay up front.
Despite being best known as an online retailer, Amazon.com's moves into cloud-based computing, an arena that Microsoft, IBM and other IT vendors also want to dominate, have been hailed by some users, especially those involved in Web 2.0 computing.
SmugMug CEO Chris MacAskill gave the technology a qualified thumb-sup. "SimpleDB should be screaming fast, incredibly scalable, and almost all of our SQL (database) queries would work with no changes other than syntax. Like many of you, I'm sure, we're using much of our RDBMS (relational database management software) as a fairly simple data store and aren't using many advanced RDBMS capabilities." One problem, though, is waiting for Amazon's remote database to a request from a local server.
The SimpleDB service costs 14 cents per hour per for each SimpleDB machine, plus a data transfer fee. Transferring data into the database costs 10 cents per gigabyte, while transferring it out costs 18 cents per gigabyte for the first 10 terabyte transferred per month, 16 cents for the next 40 terabytes transferred per month, and 13 cents per gigabyte per month after that.
Users interested in participating in the limited beta test, which is scheduled to start in several weeks, can sign up on the Amazon.com site. To be a tester, the user needs to have an Amazon account.
Amazon SimpleDB is part of a suite of cloud-based infrastructure for running queries on structured data in real time. The company says the service works in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), which together provide the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.
SimpleDB "provides the core functionality of a database, real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data, without the operational complexity," according to information posted on Amazon.com's Web site. The database service will automatically index data and do performance tuning, allowing Web developers to work without the aid of a full-time database administrator, the company said.
The service is intended for smaller companies and developers with tighter budgets since users can scale their applications and create new domains as their data grows instead of having to pay up front.
Despite being best known as an online retailer, Amazon.com's moves into cloud-based computing, an arena that Microsoft, IBM and other IT vendors also want to dominate, have been hailed by some users, especially those involved in Web 2.0 computing.
SmugMug CEO Chris MacAskill gave the technology a qualified thumb-sup. "SimpleDB should be screaming fast, incredibly scalable, and almost all of our SQL (database) queries would work with no changes other than syntax. Like many of you, I'm sure, we're using much of our RDBMS (relational database management software) as a fairly simple data store and aren't using many advanced RDBMS capabilities." One problem, though, is waiting for Amazon's remote database to a request from a local server.
The SimpleDB service costs 14 cents per hour per for each SimpleDB machine, plus a data transfer fee. Transferring data into the database costs 10 cents per gigabyte, while transferring it out costs 18 cents per gigabyte for the first 10 terabyte transferred per month, 16 cents for the next 40 terabytes transferred per month, and 13 cents per gigabyte per month after that.
Users interested in participating in the limited beta test, which is scheduled to start in several weeks, can sign up on the Amazon.com site. To be a tester, the user needs to have an Amazon account.
