Amazon SimpleDB: LITE

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting to Know SimpleDB
• Experimenting with SimpleDB
• How does SimpleDB work?
• Domain
• Item
• Attributes
• Values
• How do I interact with SimpleDB?
• How is SimpleDB priced?
• Free tier
• Why should I use SimpleDB?
• Make your applications simpler to architect
• Build flexibility into your applications
• Create high-performance web applications
• Take advantage of lower costs
• Scale your applications on demand
• Architect for the cloud
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with SimpleDB
• Creating an AWS account
• Enabling SimpleDB service for AWS account
• Query API and authentication
• SimpleDB libraries
• SDBtool — Firefox plugin
• Sample outline — performing basic operations
• Basic operations with Java
• Exploring SimpleDB with Java
• Creating a domain with Java
• Listing domains with Java
• Manipulating items with Java
• Deleting a domain with Java
• Basic operations with PHP
• Exploring SimpleDB with PHP
• Creating a domain with PHP
• Listing domains with PHP
• Manipulating items with PHP
• Deleting a domain with PHP
• Basic operations with Python
• Introducing boto
• Exploring SimpleDB with Python
• Creating a domain with Python
• Retrieving a domain with Python
• Creating items with Python
• Summary

• Chapter 3: SimpleDB versus RDBMS
• No normalization
• No joins
• No schemas
• Simpler SQL
• Only strings
• Eventual consistency
• Flash: February 24, 2010 — consistent read added
• Scalability
• Low maintenance
• Advantages of the SimpleDB model
• Disadvantages of the SimpleDB model
• Summary

• Chapter 4: The SimpleDB Data Model
• Domains
• Domains with Java
• Domains with PHP
• Domains with Python
• Exploring the metadata for a domain and costs
• Retrieving domain metadata
• Retrieving domain metadata with Java
• Retrieving domain metadata with PHP
• Retrieving domain metadata with Python
• Components of a domain's metadata
• SimpleDB domain constraints
• Items
• Adding attributes to an item with Java
• Adding attributes to an item with PHP
• Adding attributes to an item with Python
• Constraints on SimpleDB items
• Attributes
• Attributes with Java
• Attributes with PHP
• Attributes with Python
• Constraints on SimpleDB item attributes
• Values
• Storing multiple values in a single attribute with Java
• Storing multiple values in a single attribute with PHP
• Storing multiple values in a single attribute with Python
• Constraints on values of a SimpleDB item
• Consistent Read and Conditional Put / Delete announcement
• ConsistentRead = true for getAttributes and Select
• Conditional Put / Delete
• Summary

• Index