Simple Savant v0.4 Released

I've just released Simple Savant v0.4 at CodePlex. The new release includes the following features:

• Full-text searches of SimpleDB data using Lucene.NET 2.4
• Attribute spanning and compression to allow the storage of large property values in SimpleDB (attribute values are normally limited to 1024 bytes)
• Item versioning, including support for SimpleDB's new conditional puts to prevent updates with stale data
• Global and locally-scoped support for SimpleDB's new consistent reads

Rather than putting a lot of time into a blog post about the new features I've added documentation at the Simple Savant documentation wiki. You may also want to check the release notes for a complete list of bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Amazon SimpleDB Book Now Available from Packt Publishing

As a result of my work on Simple Savant I was asked to serve as technical reviewer of a new SimpleDB book by YLastic CTO Prabhakar Chaganti.  Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide is now available from Packt Publishing. It's a great resource for folks getting started with SimpleDB and includes numerous code examples in Java, PHP, and Python.