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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Jon McAlister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Andrew and bFlood, I was wondering if either of you could talk more
> about how SSDS is like bigtable, or point me to some design docs. I
> would like to read more about this.
>
> On Oct 27, 10:37 pm, bFlood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > as Andrew mentioned, Azure Storage and SSDS are very BigTable like.
> > SSDS seems to have more querying capabilities but I guess we'll have
> > to test the performance. Both can also store blobs up to 50GB in size.
> >
> > Worker Roles are nice, long running processes that are fed by a queue.
> > Web Roles (like GAE request handlers) can feed the queue for off line
> > or async processing. this mixed model of execution is missing from GAE
> > (and was not on the roadmap either)
> >
> > .Net Services - Access Control and Workflow are nice features as well
> >
> > some questions:
> > performance - really can't comment until I test it but how fast the
> > datastore works is really my biggest concern
> >
> > indexing - how will they handle the same "exploding index" problem
> > that GAE has. Is it automatic (seems to be)? SSDS looks like it can
> > query using inequality/group/sort operators, hopefully on multiple
> > entity properties
> >
> > VM caching/startup - WebRoles/WorkerRoles have dedicated physical
> > cores associated with them but it is unclear how Azure will auto-scale
> > your instances. (the CTP will not have this, its controlled via config
> > file). Cold startups of GAE instances are becoming an issue for me as
> > more modules need to be loaded (lazy loading as much as possible too).
> > How will Azure handle this? Will your .Net apps be pre-jitted/
> > optimized before upload? How often will they be swapped out of the
> > fabric? If you can maintain a minimum number of instances, how would
> > we be charged for idle time? In GAE, it would be nice if we could keep
> > several instances active
> >
> > pricing - the whitepaper says per CPU/Storage/Bandwidth, so very GAE
> > like. I would assume the pricing between the two will eventually be
> > the same
> >
> > another interesting though is that Azure runs any .Net runtime
> > language so in theory, you should be able to port the GAE stack to
> > IronPython and have it run on Azure. this would likely take a large
> > effort to build the abstraction layer but having a secondary cloud
> > infrastructure to run apps on would be nice
> >
> > MS seems ot have been working on this for awhile (a couple years) so
> > it might actually be workable at V1.
> >
> > cheers
> > brian
> >
> > On Oct 27, 3:12 pm, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Or, if you're talking about SSDS (SQL Server Data Services) already, be
> > > aware, they're a BigTable clone ...
> >
> > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:03 PM, jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > I'm only skimming the description but i think the more familiar
> > > > relational sql storage will appeal to many people.
> >
> > > > On Oct 27, 11:16 am, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > So, what's the GAE take on the MS Azure announcement at PDC today?
> >
> > > > > Is it going to be competitive, or not even in the same ballpark?
> >
> > > > > Will it force the GAE team to spend extra effort on a .NET
> implementation
> > > > > for GAE?
> >
> > > > > Thanks-
> > > > > - Andy Badera
> > > > > - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > - (518) 641-1280
> >
> > > > > -http://higherefficiency.net/
> > > > > -http://changeroundup.com/
> >
> > > > > -http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/
> > > > > -http://andrew.badera.us/
> >
> > > > > - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera
> >
>

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