Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

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. The service takes ...

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 -- the sort ...

Behind every great ecommerce website is a database, and in the early 2000s Amazon.com’s database was not keeping up with the company’s business. Part of the problem was that Amazon didn’t have just ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced new database capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and ...

It's hard to overestimate Amazon's influence on cloud computing and on NoSQL databases. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first and still is the leading concrete example of an infrastructure as a ...

In a live video stream from Amazon headquarters on January 18, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and general manager of Amazon Web Services Swami Sivasubramanian announced the availability of a new database-as ...

Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand, a flexible new capacity option for the fully-managed key-value database service, enables customers to instantly scale to thousands of requests per second, with no capacity ...