[dba-Tech] An OSS database for Dropbox

Hi all

Right, nothing "full" here. Besides Amazon has offered such services for
years at a professional level and at extremely low costs. Browse to Database
here:

http://aws.amazon.com/products/

Note that extensive developer support is offered as well:

http://aws.amazon.com/code/

If you need a full database in the cloud, go to Azure or have your own
virtual machine.
Browse to: Amazon EC2 running Microsoft SQL Server

http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

/gustav


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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Stuart McLachlan
Sendt: 1. november 2012 22:19
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] An OSS database for Dropbox

Your concept of "full" is a little different to mine. 

Looking at it, you could extend the technnology to store the data files
anywhere on the internet in exactly the same way.  It's just a bunch of
files stored somewhere which the application has to manage- no BE engine
involved. 

If you want" a full database that runs anywhere there is browser netwrok/web
services", there are plenty of mySQL and SQL Server systems out there which
do exactly that and they have been around for years.

--
Stuart

On 1 Nov 2012 at 11:39, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> How about a full database that runs anywhere there is browser 
> network/web services. Well, now there is.
> 
> http://blog.opalang.org/2012/10/dropbox-as-database.html
> 
> Wonder if this technology can be extended to Skydive or any other of 
> the many Cloud systems out there?
> 
> Jim
> T