Amazon SimpleDB (Simple Database)

Description

Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud, making web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.

The SimpleDB action contains a variety of activities that enables automation of common to complex SimpleDB operations, eliminating the administrative burden of performing manual operations such as data modeling, index maintenance, and performance tuning.

IMPORTANT: Automate Desktop's SimpleDB activities use Amazon's SimpleDB engine to perform their work, therefore, launching and operating Amazon SimpleDB through Automate Desktop requires a valid Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

Available activities

Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity:

Activity Description
Amazon SimpleDB - Create domain Creates a new domain. Domains on SimpleDB are simply tables just like spreadsheets containing rows and columns that intersect to create cells.
Amazon SimpleDB - Create session Creates a unique session which can be used to associate subsequent Amazon SimpleDB steps. This provides a single task the ability to execute numerous SimpleDB operations associated to a specific session.
Amazon SimpleDB - Delete attributes Deletes one or more attributes associated with the item.
Amazon SimpleDB - Delete domain Deletes a domain. Any items (and their attributes) in the domain are deleted as well.
Amazon SimpleDB - End session Ends a SimpleDB session created in a previous step with the use of the Amazon SimpleDB - Create session activity.
Amazon SimpleDB - Get attributes Returns all of the attributes associated with the item and populates a dataset with the results. Optionally, the attributes returned can be limited to one or more specified attribute name parameters.
Amazon SimpleDB - Get domain metadata Returns information about the domain, including when the domain was created, the number of items and attributes, and the size of attribute names and values and populates a dataset with the results.
Amazon SimpleDB - List domain(s) Retrieves a list of domain names and populates a dataset with the results.
Amazon SimpleDB - Put attributes Creates or replaces attributes in an item.
Amazon SimpleDB - Query Returns a set of attributes for item names that match the Select expression.