(2007-12-14) Amazon Simpledb

Amazon Web Services is launching a SimpleDB for their Web Services EcoSystem. It's built on Erlang! Large collections of items organized into domains. Items are little Hash Table-s containing attributes of Key-Value pairs.

Is the query language a "standard"?

I'll bet some ORM folks are staying up late trying to build in support for this. That would be pretty cool to announce.

And will CouchDB becomes Simple Db Lite? Fair amount of differences.

They claim a ReST approach, but not done very well.

• but you could build a wrapper library.

Lots of linkage, and the Trade-Off-s.

Werner Vogels compares their Eventual Consistency model to alternatives (ACID under Distributed Computing).

Wow, is it BerkeleyDB underneath?