Cloud Storage with Amazon’s SimpleDB

Part of the Amazon Web Services family, Amazon’s SimpleDB is a massively scalable and reliable key/value datastore that is exposed via a web interface and can be accessed using the Java language.

Get started with Amazon’s SimpleDB in this two part series exploring SimpleDB’s unique approach to schemaless data storage, including a demonstration of one of the datastore’s most unusual features: lexicographic searching.

Part 1:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javadev2-9/

Part 2:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javadev2-10.html

Amazon Dynamo

Here’s a nice white paper from Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, describing Dynamo, Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf