[Wsf-general] data services and resources

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Paul Fremantle wrote:
> I was at a very interesting talk by Werner Vogels from Amazon here at QCon.
> 
> He was describing how Amazon is building a lightweight data service 
> called Dynamo to handle much of the "shopping cart" data they need.
> 
> Basically, the tradition RDBMS is not what they need, because they 
> simply put XML documents into the store with a key and get them out 
> again. So Dynamo is a very high performance, highly-available, 
> clustered, persistent hashtable. It deliberately trades consistency for 
> availability.
> 
> He made the point that they don't need any schema (its key->blob), query 
> (they don't even need iterators), consistency etc.

Cool. This is inline with our thinking for the registry then? (BTW don't 
forget that writeup on your todo list ;-))

> So... is there a layering of this API that makes it simple to do XML 
> storage without defining a schema? For example mapping xs:any?

I'm not sure whether "this API" refers to what we're trying to do or what 
they're doing. ?

What we're doing is making it easy to take data that's already in a 
relational database and put it on the Web. The problem they're solving is 
a different one.

Sanjiva.
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