Comments on: The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure

By: John-Daniel Trask

John-Daniel Trask — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:21:20 +0000

Hi Phil,

We haven’t had much demand for supporting that so far however if we start getting additional interest it would certainly be bumped up the priority list. Have you considered using Amazon’s SimpleDB store?

By: Phil Cockfield

Phil Cockfield — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:24:36 +0000

Here:
http://www.mindscape.co.nz/products/simpledbtools/default.aspx

you say:

“Mindscape LightSpeed is the only .NET O/R Mapper that supports SimpleDB out of the box”

Not having tried this out personally, is it correct to assume that means you’re actually using SimpleDB as the backing repository, with LiteSpeed sitting as an abstraction top? I can’t see how it would mean any thing else.

Which leads me to my question, if you do this for SimpleDB, do you have plans (or do you do it already) to have TableStorage as a backstore for LiteSpeed.

SQL Azure has some negative aspects (including price, and scaleabaility, and max size) which makes Table Storage appealing. Is there room for liteSpeed to make it a more DB like experience??

Thanks

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By: Jeremy Boyd

Jeremy Boyd — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:26:38 +0000

The over the wire protocol is TDS, which is the native SQL client protocol. Under the hood we are using an ADO.NET SqlConnection so it is the same as connecting to a local SQL Server in that regard. Security concerns etc are for you to manage between yourself and Azure, generally I wouldnt expect you would be doing much “over the Internet” based development however, but this is no different to developing any other app over Sql Azure.

Sql Azure has no native REST API, you may remember one from the earlier incarnation of Sql Azure (the key value based version), however this was dropped when they migrated to the fully relational model. You could create one by setting up a simple DataServices project and hosting it under Windows Azure, but then it becomes a custom solution and not one we could support reliably :)

By: nefajciar

nefajciar — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:07:23 +0000

I don’t quite comprehend the first example (when LS application isn’t hosted in Azure cloud).

What are you sending on wire? I know it could be some SQL Server 2008 specific protocol container, and SQL commands in it, but that is used once the application (and whole solution) is hosted in Azure Clouds, I wonder how it can be used in heterogenous environment (my server, and MS Azure database).

What about security?

And what about REST API? I mean it is of course much better to communicate with the DB with RESTful manner, I think Azure supports it, and it can be secured.

Well, Azure support is indeed a great thing, as the year 2010 will be all about cloud computing!

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DotNetShoutout — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:09:21 +0000

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