Tag Archives: simpledb

How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Amund Tveit

Elastic Mapreduce default behavior is to read from and store to S3. When you need to access other AWS services, e.g. SQS queues or database services SimpleDB and RDS (MySQL) the best approach from Python is to use Boto. To … Continue reading →

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Unstructured Search for Amazon’s SimpleDB

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Amund Tveit

SimpleDB is a service primarily for storing and querying structured data (can e.g. be used for  a product catalog with descriptive features per products, or an academic event service with extracted features such as event dates, locations, organizers and topics). … Continue reading →

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