Cloud computing: scalable DB
Mark Stuart
mstuart at adaptcrm.com
Tue May 18 11:29:48 EDT 2010
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
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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.
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