As much as I hate to admit it, I had the same feelings as you when I read the DynamoDB announcement yesterday. ;)
Their pricing is a confusing and means I have to estimate the capacity I will need, which sucks. Most of the apps I deal with have pretty distinct wave-like traffic patterns, the daily peaks see traffic levels several times the levels during the troughs. I've also worked with apps with a lot (several TB) of data that go from sustaining a few hundred QPS to sustaining 1000+ QPS, fiddling with nobs while that's happening would suck -- GAE just magically kept working (well too!). I guess I just didn't get the dynamic part of DynamoDB. However, I still hope that this will give Google incentive to innovate and be competitive. In my opinion the datastore is/was probably App Engines biggest competitive advantage. App Engine's datastore pricing is also lacking, but at least your not paying for over capacity. Robert On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 14:57, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > Google should pay me to do a parody of this > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oz-7wJJ9HZ0#! > > I might do it for free, but I suspect the audience for such a video is > somewhat limited. > > > > Dynamo Misses the Dynamic portion. Turn the dial to determine how many > queries per second you need to serve from this non-relational Database. Got > a Traffic Spike? Sucks to be you. Oh, they failed to mention, “changing the > dial on a 100gig database?” it requires “about 1.5 minutes per gig when > scaling up”. So those of you with 4TB of data, if you want to scale up you > need to give them 4 days notice. > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
