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Amazon SimpleDB: LITE

A book and eBook that addresses: what is SimpleDB, how does it compare to relational databases, and how to get started?

By: Prabhakar Chaganti

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eText | 13 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Book Description

This focused book is an extracted LITE version of Packt's full: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide. It concentrates on getting a grounding in the value of SimpleDB, and shows how to set up an AWS account, enable a SimpleDB service for the account, and install and set up libraries for Java, PHP, and Python. If you are a developer wanting to get to grips with a primer into SimpleDB, then this book is for you. You do not need to know anything about SimpleDB to read and learn from this book, and no basic knowledge is strictly necessary.

What you will learn

Get to Know SimpleDB, explores SimpleDB and the advantages of utilizing it to build web-scale applications. Get Started with SimpleDB - set up an AWS account, enable a SimpleDB service for the account, and install and set up libraries for Java, PHP, and Python. Understand the differences between SimpleDB and a traditional RDBMS, as well as the pros and cons of using SimpleDB as the storage engine in your application. Includes a detailed look at the SimpleDB data model and different methods for interacting with a domain, its items, and their attributes.