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links for 2006-11-17

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  1. Just a note, I had a similar observation to the Great DB In the Sky being pretty much what the Semantic Web is about at

    http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/2006/11/the_great_datab.html

    David

  2. The ElasticLive link is really interesting. I posted to the AWS forums to see if anyone knew more about it (http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=12769). I’ve been looking a lot at EC2/S3 and I’m really intrigued. The only drawback is that machine state isn’t auto-persisted when you terminate an instance and based on my reading it seems like S3 can’t quite be treated like a block-device and mounted as such (reliably, at least, though this thread has some interesting info on doing so using FUSE: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10271&start=0&tstart=15). Since ElasticLive’s prices are about 2.5x the Amazon rate, I wonder if they’re starting up two instances of every image and mirroring everything to provide better reliability? I’d love to know more.

  3. David: thx for the link – recommend others give it a read. interesting stuff. also liked your piece on JavaDB (aka Derby).

    Joel: i’m going to have to remember to get in touch w/ them after the break, because i’d really like to know more about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.

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