Amazon SimpleDB

An Amazon SimpleDB is a Distributed Database that evolved from AWS DynamoDB Service.

• Context:
  • Website: https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
• Example(s):
  • Sample Code and Libraries,
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • AWS Lambda Service,
  • AWS Virtual Private Cloud.
• See: Erlang (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Distributed Database, Amazon.com, Web Service, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3.

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References

2022

• (Amazon SimpleDB, 2022) ⇒ https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ Retrieved:2022-7-17.
  • QUOTE: Amazon SimpleDB is a highly available NoSQL data store that offloads the work of database administration. Developers simply store and query data items via web services requests and Amazon SimpleDB does the rest.

    Unbound by the strict requirements of a relational database, Amazon SimpleDB is optimized to provide high availability and flexibility, with little or no administrative burden. Behind the scenes, Amazon SimpleDB creates and manages multiple geographically distributed replicas of your data automatically to enable high availability and data durability(...)

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_SimpleDB Retrieved:2017-6-22.
  • Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang by Amazon.com. It is used as a web service in concert with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 and is part of Amazon Web Services. It was announced on December 13, 2007. As with EC2 and S3, Amazon charges fees for SimpleDB storage, transfer, and throughput over the Internet. On December 1, 2008, Amazon introduced new pricing with Free Tier for 1 GB of data & 25 machine hours. Transfer to other Amazon Web Services is free of charge.

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