Cloud computing: scalable DB

[David Bovill]

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 <mstuart at 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.
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