Comments on: Should NoSQL startups be afraid of DynamoDB?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:56:08 +0000

Everyone’s conveniently forgetting how often hackers bring down Amazon instances. Who really has access to yuor data if it’s in the Amazon cloud? They’ll never tell you.

By: Sougata Pal

Sougata Pal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:09:26 +0000

Moreover MongoDB fulltext search with MongoLantern is there, which is a big advantage for using MongoDB.

By: ToolsJournal

ToolsJournal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:01:52 +0000

Not sure if they should be afraid off but yes should definitely feel the pinch as and when the user base increase for Dynamo. Time and again we have seen that no “One” is bigger and there is always a competition and so does Amazon ;). Give it few more months and probably there ll be one of big 5′s competing against DynamoDB with their own launch.

By: Joe Arnold

Joe Arnold — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:34:32 +0000

Openess will be a huge barrier to entry. Many folks who are deploying on AWS want the option to migrate/move their operations if need be. As I recall SimpleDB wasn’t too popular largely for this reason. Perhaps the weight of vendor lock in will have an influence. The fact that AWS is holding back on SSDs for other platform developers is a sign that they are okay playing a game on uneven turf to their advantage. Beware.

By: Brett Sheppard

Brett Sheppard — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:47:54 +0000

Per JP’s point above, AWS API is a de facto standard for cloud interoperability; see for example Zynga’s use of the AWS API to shift from AWS to on-prem Zynga when the demand characteristics of a new online game are well understand. OpenStack is a worthwhile non-proprietary open source option but take-up has been slow to date, and standard JDBC/ODBC drivers can be slow and not well designed for migration to/from distributed cloud DB’s unless optimized.

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Brett

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By: JP Morgenthal

JP Morgenthal — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:39:23 +0000

I believe many are missing a key component to the discussion, the interface. AWS is clearly a leader in many areas of providing cloud services, but they make no attempt to ensure their interface is interoperable or standardized. This is consistent with DynamoDB. While true that their interface is based on open standards, this is a call to arms to the other NoSQL players to join together and standardize interfaces making it easier for customers to select the right NoSQL product without being locked in due to the interface. Playing the lock-in card is both fair and valid as an approach to competing with AWS.

By: Terence Craig

Terence Craig — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:55:44 +0000

The scary thing for all of the other vendors including Oracle is that Amazon will be able to offer continually decreasing prices as more people use dynamo and hardware prices continue to drop. This will be a continuing advantage that neither pure play software vendors or companies that rely on services revenue will be able to match. If Amazon is going to have competition in NOSQL in the long term it will be from another IaaS or PaaS vendor of similar scale. http://blog.patternbuilders.com

By: fabianschonholz

fabianschonholz — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:20:52 +0000

The more the merrier!!