amazon db / object stores
Yesterday I’ve got mail from the amazon developer-service (I am a user of amazon s3) about their upcoming feature, also /. has a story about it.
Sounds interesting – building web applications and using amazon’s database (a store where you can create/update und delete objects) as persistence.
More and more applications and services seem to make a shift from traditional SQL/DBMS to object-stores. One of these ideas, I would be interested most, is Allegro Cache – a lisp persistence system for CLOS objects – sadly not free but part of ACL. In the opensource-community there exists elephant and rucksack. Exspecially rucksack seems to be a very interesting stuff, unfortunately in early alpha-state. Elephant depends on BerkleyDB but has the option of alternative backends.