Paper: Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store | High ScalabilityUpdate 2: Read/WriteWeb has a good article talking about the scalability issues of relational databases and how Dynamo solves them: Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage. But since Dynamo is just another frustrating walled garden protected by barbed wire and guard dogs, its relevance is somewhat overstated. Update: Greg Linden has a take on the paper where he questions
