Simon Willison’s Weblog

ElasticSearch: Your Data, Your Search. A neat example of how ElasticSearch’s schemaless indexes and native JSON support make it ridiculously easy to index different types of data and run queries across them.

# 12th February 2010, 3:22 pm / elasticsearch, java, search, schemaless, json

What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. Amazon have finally launched the database component of their web service suite. It fits a bunch of current trends: key/value pairs, schemaless, built on top of Erlang. “Eventual consistency” is an interesting characteristic.

# 14th December 2007, 11:21 am / amazon, simpledb, web-services, schemaless, erlang, hashtables, scaling, databases, charles-ying