tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post1093778038105568110..comments2024-01-02T00:43:44.344-08:00Comments on OakLeaf Systems: Test Harnesses Compare Amazon EC2 with SQL Server and SimpleDB PerformanceRoger Jennings (--rj)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01700526164060680385noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-61593882284388881532008-12-23T23:04:00.000-08:002008-12-23T23:04:00.000-08:00Great Post I would like to see the test harness pr...Great Post I would like to see the test harness proved against something simalr in the google cloud as well. <BR/>i feel the same way about the windows cloud being a day late and a yard short but microsoft unlike amazon and google only get one chnace to get it right. Lets hope for our sake that there extra procotion proves to be better for us in the long runUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03380214070006179010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-25919423856726359092008-12-18T02:55:00.000-08:002008-12-18T02:55:00.000-08:00@RJThe anonymous guy speaks again.I am mindful of ...@RJ<BR/><BR/>The anonymous guy speaks again.<BR/><BR/>I am mindful of the 2008 PDC presentation by the senior SDS manager who cut through all the buzz and cautioned that SDS as seen today is more or less the feature set for the V1.0 launch in 2009.<BR/><BR/>As you quoted, the good intentions are there within the broad Azure Team but can they deliver in a meaningful timescale? There is a SaaS/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-23953286719018820122008-12-17T16:57:00.000-08:002008-12-17T16:57:00.000-08:00Transactions across entity groups in a single part...Transactions across entity groups in a single partition are coming. From a recent Microsoft post to the Azure forum:<BR/><BR/>“Windows Azure Table is focused on providing massively scalable tables at low cost. This will allow you to have structured storage with entities and properties, where you can query over any combination of properties using LINQ, and at some point in the future perform Roger Jennings (--rj)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01700526164060680385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-68770098699252556492008-12-16T17:45:00.000-08:002008-12-16T17:45:00.000-08:00@RJThank you for following up on my original comme...@RJ<BR/><BR/>Thank you for following up on my original comment.<BR/><BR/>After the PDC Azure buzz my doubts about the Microsoft cloud are growing. My 4 main concerns are lack of any form of transaction scope in SDS, unknown pricing, unknown release date and poor SDS crud performance.<BR/><BR/>As a SQL Server C# developer I should have the ideal profile to be tempted away from Amazon’s cloud to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-37730006793059119432008-12-14T06:47:00.000-08:002008-12-14T06:47:00.000-08:00@Anon:The SQL Server Express instance and IIS are ...@Anon:<BR/><BR/>The SQL Server Express instance and IIS are on the same box in this case, because comparing raw performance, not scalabiliity, was under investigation.Roger Jennings (--rj)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01700526164060680385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646261.post-57903368486926651422008-12-14T05:43:00.000-08:002008-12-14T05:43:00.000-08:00A major piece of work OakLeaf that has confirmed m...A major piece of work OakLeaf that has confirmed my suspicions about how inappropriate all the cloud name/value entity store technologies are for serious SaaS developers. The Google AppEngine Datastore, Amazon’s SimpleDB and Windows Azure have chronic performance problems relative to conventional database throughput. Ultimately the inherent inefficiencies of these storage options will hit hourly Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com