varalu 0 Report post Posted January 8, 2008 DaaS (Database as a Service) is becoming the next big thing in Data Storage where you just call API's for all your data needs and forget about DB servers, configs etc. For more about this read the below links... https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ --> Amazon started this... http://www.softwareag.com/special/longjump/index.html --> Yet another provider These services are really really very useful in terms of developing and deploying web applications. Lots of issues like setting up new servers and configuring them, upgrading them will all together gets away in these cases... Very useful i should say... It was all started by Amazon, bigtime web service provider as far as i know, with their S3 - Simple Storage Service. Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set. * Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited. * Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key. * A bucket can be located in the United States or in Europe. All objects within the bucket will be stored in the bucket's location, but the objects can be accessed from anywhere. * Authentication mechanisms are provided to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users. * Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit. * Built to be flexible so that protocol or functional layers can easily be added. Default download protocol is HTTP. A BitTorrent protocol interface is provided to lower costs for high-scale distribution. Additional interfaces will be added in the future. Of course nothing comes free of cost... It comes with a price...Below are the details of the pricing. Pricing Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your monthly bill using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. We charge less where our costs are less, thus some prices vary across geographic regions and are based on the location of the bucket. United States Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB - all data transfer in $0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Europe Storage $0.18 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.10 per GB - all data transfer in $0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out $0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out $0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB Requests $0.012 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests $0.012 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Data transfer "in" and "out" refers to transfer into and out of Amazon S3. Data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, is free of charge (i.e., $0.00 per GB), except data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3-Europe, which will be charged at regular rates. Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead. Great trends... DaaS (Database as a Service) is becoming the next big thing in Data Storage where you just call API's for all your data needs and forget about DB servers, configs etc. For more about this read the below links... https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ --> Amazon started this... http://www.softwareag.com/special/longjump/index.html --> Yet another provider Amazon S3 Functionality Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set. * Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited. * Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key. * A bucket can be located in the United States or in Europe. All objects within the bucket will be stored in the bucket's location, but the objects can be accessed from anywhere. * Authentication mechanisms are provided to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users. * Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit. * Built to be flexible so that protocol or functional layers can easily be added. Default download protocol is HTTP. A BitTorrent protocol interface is provided to lower costs for high-scale distribution. Additional interfaces will be added in the future. Below is a link to the article about LingJumb in Techcrunch. Longjump is the new service provider in the arena of DAAA - database as a service.http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This technology is going to be the next step web. 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hitmanblood 0 Report post Posted January 11, 2008 OK well I must agree this thing is huge and it is developing really fast and each they there are many and many more programers and developers that are engaded in such things however. I think that it is still not so good for the usual developers and small sites it is good for corporate sites and other things like some sites that provide storage for pictures videos and so on any such site might benefit from such service however. The point is that this is too expansive for the smaller sites.I know what you think how can it be expenisive when they are providing lowest pricies possible but it is expensive because you pay for everything and their profit are not comming only from storage and bandwidth but also from the requests and some dynamical site with a lot of request would have potential issues whit such service. Before anyone goes into it should try google about better priicing solutions and think twice about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ironchicken 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2008 Amazon S3 is really good. It's the best and most economical storage solution if you want to store a lot of files. i heard SmugMug uses S3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leeker 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2008 thanks for share, I like amzon s3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
