Brief introduction:
Amazon SimpleDB
is a tool of
Amazon.com
works as an interface to
Amazon web service
and serves user to store, process and query the structured data set. It works in close union with
Amazon S3
(simple storage service) and
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2). The core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity is also provided by Amazon SimpleDB. It automatically indexes the structured data and supplies a simple API to store and access.
Domains:
Structured data that you store on Amazon simpleDB is always stored in an organized form that is called
Domains
you are served to run queries on the organized data in a domain. Domains are just like a simple table contains rows and column.
Attributes:
An
Attribute
in simple language is a column header that specifies its value content. Each item has its own sets of Attribute-Value pairs and an attribute may have a single or multiple values.
Queries:
Queries
are the statements that are given to fetch desired set or results from structured data.
You can query your data set using this simple set of operators: =, !=, <, > <=, >=, STARTS-WITH, AND, OR, NOT, INTERSECTION AND UNION.
Authentication:
Authentication on Amazon SimpleDB ensures the protection of your private data.
AWS Access Key ID:
AWS Access Key ID
is a unique identifier that tells SimpleDB to target a specific user account.
AWS Secret Access Key:
AWS Secret Access Key
is used to gain access control on the given Access Key ID. Click for more information about
access & secret key.
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