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.

They discussed the factors behind DynamoDB’s development, how Amazon’s customer-oriented philosophy guided the company’s approach and the role of cloud in driving machine learning.

Amazon DynamoDB provides a low-level API and an Object Persistence API for the .NET developers. In this tutorial, we will see how to use the Object Persistence API to talk to Amazon DynamoDB.

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.

Google claims that, thanks to throughput and storage improvements to Cloud Spanner, the service is now effectively half the cost of DynamoDB.