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From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:26:49 -0600
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I skimmed the docs. It looks more like a SimpleDB with more scaling
than it does a CouchDB replacement. Definitely going to spend more
time reading later to see if there are any decent ideas to borrow.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Mark Hahn <mark@hahnca.com> 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. =A0After studying the api I was surprised to see that you
> could only index on one field. =A0Has anyone else considered using it? =
=A0What
> use-case is it good for?