Over the past 6 months, we've seen 3 significant cloud computing database announcements:
- SimpleDB from Amazon
- BigTable inside Google App Engine
- Microsoft SQL Server Data Services (SSDS)
These cloud databases provide non-relational simple but scalable data services to applications that want to live in a public cloud. While they currently exist in a rapidly expanding hype-bubble, it may well be that cloud databases represent the biggest paradigm shift in DBMS since the relational revolution in the 80s.
Anyway, I was lucky enough to get a Google App Engine account and have been playing with the data access API. I wanted to load up some data I had in Oracle tables and after a bit of mucking around decided I'd write a general purpose loader which others might fine useful.
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