Last week Amazon Web Services added another feather in the cap in the form of
a brand new NoSQL service called DynamoDB. Though it looks like yet another
announcement from the Amazon stable, this is huge. It has a strong impact not
just on AWS but the industry.
In the last couple of years, there has been massive rush in the NoSQL
database market. Many companies sprung up offering a variety of schema-less,
scale out databases. Major Cloud platform providers have their own offerings
in the form of Amazon SimpleDB, Google BigTable and Windows Azure Table
storage. Recent entrants in the PaaS segment started supporting MongoDB and
the likes to provide the NoSQL capabilities to the stack. So, how is DynamoDB
different from Amazon’s SimpleDB and other similar NoSQL databases?
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Feb 5, 7, 9 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Sadashiva
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Describe features of Microsoft LightSwitch and where it can be used
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At the World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting today in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft Corp. announced the
winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a
three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and
social entrepreneurs. Grant recipients include Team Apptenders from Croatia,
Team Falcon Dev from Ecuador, Team OaSys from Jordan and Team Lifelens from
the United States. The teams invented solutions that address issues, such as
accessibility, health and education, and use technologies tha... (more)
It has been out for quite some time. If you have not tried, perhaps you
should. If you already know SQL Server you are already knowing a lot. It is
time to pick up and move.
Microsoft has come out with this 'How to use SQL Azure' which will put you on
the right track. Well after getting on the track you need to run. This is
where my book will come in handy. It's comprehensive with tons of
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Node Summit -- Cloud9 IDE,
Inc., the leading cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
web and mobile applications, has announced the availability of Windows Azure
deployment from the IDE. Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables
users to manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed
datacenters. The integration offers Node.js developers the advantages of a
comprehensive cloud-based development environment, paired with Windows
Azure's industry-leading ease of use, scalability, and interoper... (more)
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