Amazon also wrote its own file system for Dynamo. To optimize performance, many of the smaller database transactions in Dynamo use the lightweight Berkeley Database (BDB), while others utilize MySQL.

In a live video stream from Amazon headquarters on January 18, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and general manager of Amazon Web Services Swami Sivasubramanian announced the availability of a new ...

Amazon helped start the "NoSQL" movement. And now it's giving the cause another shot in the arm. NoSQL is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for “unstructured” information ...