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One day I hope for more universal cloud api's so that switching between services or distributing it (if ever needed ;)) over different cloud service providers doesn't require rewrites or extra overhead.

idea, write some Cloud Service Communicator API that connects through all other api's. Another layer to add.

Shouldn't the title be "Yahoo's cloud database"... I was almost expecting another EC2.

I was waiting for something like this forever and ever when I worked there.

It already existed, kinda. When I was there I built a library called CrockDB that squirreled small values into the Calendar API, which runs on UDB or something. A part of the key was a unixtime so I always made sure Crock stored its stuff in the 14th century so as not to conflict with real user data. :)

Yeah, I don't think we could have gotten away with storing delicious bookmarks in UDB...

This looks really cool. I really hope they expose it as an API or even better release it with a permissible license for us to deploy. We need aggressive competition against SimpleDB and the large number of key-value stores we already have.

What's up with the "value" String in this example?

"addr":{"value":"700 First Ave"}

It's the address of Yahoo!'s headquarters. (edit: yeah I don't know why I didn't see what thwarted saw, clearly I'm an idiot)

I think the question is why isn't it:

   {"addr":"700 First Ave"}

This is just a stab in the dark but the other method would allow for metadata on individual fields, although I can't think of what kind of metadata you'd want to add to a street address.

I think the primary purpose is to annotate values with type information to make the format self-describing.

You could have versioning information, expiry time, or type information for the field.

Sherpa supports field expiry.

{"addr": {"value : "700 First Ave", "expiretime" : 1244146191 }}

In case you're wondering, the paper and technology that this is based on is here: http://research.yahoo.com/node/2304

A bit of vaporware here. No plan to quickly open this service.

Is GFS vaporware? It is closed to public.

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