Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value storage system ^[1]. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It is not directly exposed as a web service, but is used to power parts of other Amazon Web Services such as S3 ^[2].

[edit] See also

NoSQL - more info on non-relational data stores

[edit] References

1. ^ Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
2. ^ "Amazon's Dynamo". October 2, 2007. http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html. Retrieved 2008-04-12. "Dynamo is not directly exposed externally as a web service; however, Dynamo and similar Amazon technologies are used to power parts of our Amazon Web Services, such as S3." 

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