Amazon SimpleDB is built on Erlang
According to a blog post by (update: a friend of) one of the developers, Amazon's SimpleDB is built on Erlang. Cool! Another datapoint for the trend we see towards parallel-capable languages like Erlang and Haskell.
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I keep hearing otherwise-intelligent people claim that pure functional languages somehow make parallel programming easier, but I have yet to see any evidence for it (see http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1262.html for discussion, and an offer of a reward for such evidence).
It's interesting that the two coolest new database on the block are both written in Erlang. The other, of course, being CouchDB. Of course, being written in Erlang definitely *contributes* to their cool factor.
Rio:
That's a theme with Amazon's offerings in this space. One senses a "systems" team there that, yeah, has got it going on. It's the simplicity and boiling down to essenses that gives them away.
-t
DBs are already pretty simple.
But it's great that Amazon are making the leap to making them open. A read-everywhere RESTful Internet-Scale DB could be epicly cool.
@Thomas Lord - I'll answer that in another post. Good question, thanks for asking it.
Jan,
RESTful Internet-Scale DB
Let us know when one is released. SimpleDB is not an example of a RESTful service, but an RPC based service. :-)
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Thomas Lord [12.15.07 01:44 AM]
I have a question about how the "Radar" works.
Are you tracking Erlang? or following the broader trend around the pi calculus? Is Erlang interesting to you as a technological idea? Or as a particular product?
-t