Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others.

Akshat Vig and Khawaja Shams explore the implementation of Amazon DynamoDB Streams, and argue that understanding ordering, de-duplication and checkpointing are vital for building distributed systems.

Amazon announced today DynamoDB, a fully managed cloud-based NoSQL database service that builds on the company’s SimpleDB service by delivering faster, more consistent database performance to ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced several new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, designed to support the most demanding workloads that need to be operated across multiple ...

Amazon helped start the "NoSQL" movement. And now it's giving the cause another shot in the arm. NoSQL is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for “unstructured” information ...

Amazon today announced a large update to its DynamoDB NoSQL database service that introduces a massively expanded free tier and the ability to store entire JSON-formatted documents as single ...

Rockset, a serverless search and analytics company, has announced the availability of real-time SQL on NoSQL data from Amazon DynamoDB. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as ...

There are a lot of open-source databases out there, and ScyllaDB, a NoSQL variety, is looking to differentiate itself by attracting none other than Amazon users. Today, it announced a DynamoDB ...

Amazon's DynamoDB NoSQL document database now accepts JSON documents as database objects and offers an expanded free tier ...