Daily Archives: October 10th, 2006

Random Musing: Bluring the Line Between Storage and Database?

As food for thought… If you had a table `items` itemId char(40), itemName varchar(128), Another table `tags` tagId char(40), tagName char(40), And a third table `owners` ownerId char(40), ownerUsername char(40), ownerPassword varchar(128), It would theoretically be possible to have an S3 bucket ItemsToTags inside which you put empty objects named (ownerId)-(itemId)-(tagId). And a TagsToItems S3 [...]

How S3 Fits in Comparison to Other Storage Solutions

So, recently Nick G. Asked “Since you’ve worked with S3 a good bit, I’d like to get your take on using a service like S3 compared to using a local instance (or cluster) of MogileFS?” I’d like to interject here and mention that in this case “quite a bit” means I’ve used it in one [...]

Where should AmazonAWS go next?

We have SQS, we have S3, and we have EC2, so what next from the Amazon AWS team?. There is really only one piece of the puzzle missing… And its a piece that has a lot of people griping. I have a strong hunch that Amazon is working on the problem, because I have a [...]