The Cult of Gary

08 Jan

LongJump DaaS

LongJump’s Database as a Service was featured on TechCrunch today. It appears to be a competitor to SimpleDB:
LongJump’s DaaS provides a complete environment for hosting a database that’s highly secure and web-enabled while simultaneously cutting the costs and easing the hassles for entrepreneurs and developers who would otherwise have to purchase a database server, provision [...]

14 Dec

Amazon SimpleDB

Wow, I was thinking about something like SimpleDB two days ago.
SimpleDB looks awesome. It actually looks a lot like CouchDB. Maybe that’s what they are using? They are charging per “CPU cycle”, so they could have CouchDB servers running in EC2 and are measuring the resource usage.
Going back to my design.. I was thinking of doing [...]

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