[redland-dev] Amazon SimpleDB

[Dave Beckett]

Mark Cheverton wrote:
> I'm sure most of you have seen the Amazon SimpleDB web service
> announcement: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342335011
> 
> I was looking at this and thinking that this service could make a great
> back-end to Redland. The SimpleDB is essentially more of a large hash
> store than a DB and with it's concept of domains could even be
> considered a triples store. But you wouldn't necessarily need to go that
> far since Redland is happy to work from hash indexes.
> 
> I don't know what the performance would be like, but there's the
> possibility of an interesting project here, using the massively
> distributed and scalable Amazon cloud as a triples store (especially
> when tied in with EC2 and S3). I'm afraid I don't have the skills to
> pull this together, but I thought I'd throw it out there to see if
> anyone would be interested in picking it up.

I was thinking the same, although a triple-level service might be
a teeny bit slow across a web service, it is pretty straightforward
to add new hash key:value things and let redland use it as a storage.

Memcached might be another alternative for a fast k:v store backend...


Dave