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		samstokes on Jan 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Databa... Could you clarify what you mean by "cold response time of 300ms"? Cold as in requesting data that hasn't yet been cached in RAM? How good does it get once the cache is warm?

PanMan on Jan 18, 2012 [–]

Yes, that's what I meant with 'cold'. For recently requested data, that is cached in RAM, the response can be as quick as 3 ms.

samstokes on Jan 18, 2012 | [–]

Thanks, that's useful to know.

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