The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database Service
From the post:
We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying for the actual system resources they consume. We also received a ton of great feedback about how simple it is get started and how easy it is to scale the database. Since Amazon DynamoDB introduced the new concept of a provisioned throughput pricing model, we also received several questions around how to think about its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
We are very excited to publish our new TCO whitepaper: The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database service. Download PDF.
I bet you can guess how the numbers work out without reading the PDF file. 😉
Makes me wonder though if there would be a market for a different hosted NoSQL database or topic map application? Particularly a topic map application.
Not along the lines of Maiana but more of a topic based data set, which could respond to data by merging it with already stored data. Say for example a firefighter scans the bar code on a railroad car lying alongside the tracks with fire getting closer. The only think they want is a list of the necessary equipment and whether to leave now, or not.
Most preparedness agencies would be well pleased to simply pay for the usage they get of such a topic map.