Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others. The service takes ...

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Behind every great ecommerce website is a database, and in the early 2000s Amazon.com’s database was not keeping up with the company’s business. Part of the problem was that Amazon didn’t have just ...

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Amazon just added a new cloud computing service to its suite of Amazon Web Services, a distributed database called DynamoDB. Web applications can spike suddenly in demand or grow so big that they tax ...

As businesses strive to become more data-driven, the ability to process and analyze data in real time has become a critical differentiator. Real-time data processing is especially important for ...

With the release of DocumentDB, AWS now has two NoSQL document database services. DocumentDB, a managed service that launches databases in the cloud, joins AWS' DynamoDB -- a key/value store that also ...

As the scale of web applications is expanding, an increasing number of websites are breaking away from the mould of SQL-based databases and adopting something different. Amazon till now has been ...