June 2010
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SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users :...
This is Part 3 of SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users. Check out Part 2
Work around Attribute Value Length Limits If you need to store data that is vastly larger than 1024 bytes in a SimpleDB attribute, consider storing that data in S3 and putting a pointer (i.e. bucket name + object key) to the data in the simpleDB attribute. However, the drawback from this approach is that you...
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SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users :...
This Part 2 of SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users. Check out Part 1
Beware of Case-senstivity Since domain names and attribute names are case-sensitive, for all domain and attribute names, use uppercase lettering and separate words with “_”
When sharding domains, adopt zero-based index numbering and separate it from the root name with “_” e.g....
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SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users :...
Preamble
I’ve been a heavy-user of SimpleDB since January 2009, storing, writing, and reading billions of items. Based on my experience, I’ve compiled a list of best practices and conventions to simplify working with SimpleDB. I’ve divided this into multiple parts to ease readability.
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Since sorting is...