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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 ...

Google's Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon's DynamoDB "for most workloads," Google says. And Google doesn't want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed ...

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 ...