Why SimpleDB Matters

Here's a good post on SimpleDB usages and why SimpleDB matters.

Very, very simplistically speaking, domains are like tables, with items like rows and attributes like columns. A query cannot cross domains, so in this analogy you can’t “join” domains. But that sort of thinking is a holdover from the relational database normalized model.In reality a domain is much more like a database, so we have to stop thinking in terms of tables and joins.

And another interesting post:

To Rule the Clouds Takes Software: Why Amazon SimpleDB is a Huge Next Step

I love how this one starts with a good Lord of the Rings analogy:

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them…

J. R. R. Tolkien

Amazon is handing out the nine rings to us humans, that's for sure, but I don't think they are as evil as Sauron... or are they? ;)