Amazon SimpleDB (Simple Database) Actions
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 lets you common to complex SimpleDB operations, eliminating the administrative burden of performing manual operations such as data modeling, index maintenance, and performance tuning.
Available Activities
The following table briefly describes the available activities for this action arranged in alphabetical order. Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity.
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Creates a new domain. Domains on SimpleDB are simply tables just like spreadsheets containing rows and columns that intersect to create cells. |
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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. |
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Deletes one or more attributes associated with the item. |
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Deletes a domain. Any items (and their attributes) in the domain are deleted as well. |
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Ends a SimpleDB session created in a previous step with the use of the Create Session activity. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Retrieves a list of domain names and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Creates or replaces attributes in an item. |
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Returns a set of attributes for item names that match the Select expression. |