From user-return-19564-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Thu Jan 19 03:51:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A55093A9 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:51:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 89866 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jan 2012 03:51:52 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 89023 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jan 2012 03:51:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 89015 invoked by uid 99); 19 Jan 2012 03:51:33 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:51:33 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: 216.86.168.182 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of geir@pobox.com) Received: from [216.86.168.182] (HELO mxout-07.mxes.net) (216.86.168.182) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:51:25 +0000 Received: from [10.0.11.107] (unknown [50.74.192.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B3BA22E1F4 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:51:03 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: DynamoDB From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:51:02 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <03FFBC37-A90C-466B-89D6-F7F0101FABCB@pobox.com> References: To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org It's web scale. geir On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > I assume most of you have seen the Amazon announcement for the new > hosted DynamoDB service. > > http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb.html > > I was kind of excited about it since it's a nosql db that looked similar to > couch at first. After studying the api I was surprised to see that you > could only index on one field. Has anyone else considered using it? What > use-case is it good for?