Thanks for the pointer Mark - seems comparable price wise. I think as I am looking for the easiest migration strategy from small community cheap start-up costs to global scalability - I'd prefer either the ability to use MySQL, or the simplicity of SimpleDB (which is also free for a basic instance)?
But it is early days in the research - so thanks again for the pointers! On 18 May 2010 16:29, Mark Stuart <mstu...@adaptcrm.com> wrote: > on Tue May 18 06:23:14 CDT 2010, David Bovill wrote: > >> > I'm looking into an application which needs a highly scalable back end > database. > << > > David, have you checked out Microsoft's Azure "cloud" services? > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sqlazure/ > > Here's some info I copied from that page: > > SQL Azure Database Features > =========================== > Relational Database Management Services (RDBMS) > - Creating, accessing and manipulating tables, views, indexes, roles, > stored procedures, triggers, and functions > - Execute complex queries and joins across multiple tables > - Insert, Update, and Delete > - Constraints > - Transactions > - Temp tables > - Basic functions (aggregates, math, string, date/time) > - A subset of the existing SQL Server built-in stored procedures and > system views > - Support for tracking billable metrics in real time and for historical > analysis > > Programmability > - Managed ADO.NET data access > - Native ODBC *** > - Support for PHP > > Tools > - Deployment Support for running SQL configuration scripts via SQLCMD > - Provision Logical Servers and Databases through the SQL Azure > Database account portal > > There's a Get Started Now link near the left/top side of the page. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution