[HN Gopher] Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
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       Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
        
       Author : harporoeder
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-08-21 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (aws.amazon.com)
        
       | belter wrote:
       | Note this is not a new offer: Released for the first time in
       | September 10, 2019
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       | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcin...
        
       | Zenst wrote:
       | Be interesting how it fits in with various business compliance
       | regulations, rules and associated risk liabilities for such
       | compliance.
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       | But the whole "Quantum", in the branding really does kinda irk me
       | and you just know it is to help target the buzzword of the week
       | management types in some way. Or the click-bait of the business
       | world, yet that is who they are targeting - not your IT geeks.
       | 
       | I see a few credible customers, but nothing in the finance
       | sticking out. When that changes, that will be a seal of approval
       | many will look towards.
        
         | RL_Quine wrote:
         | By the same token, I'm pretty upset that MySQL doesn't actually
         | involve elephants or dolphins. A name is just a name, I doubt
         | anybody could be fooled into thinking that this has anything to
         | do with quantum computing.
        
           | Uehreka wrote:
           | I legit saw this title and thought "oh is this built on
           | Amazon Braket?", so I'd disagree that no one could be
           | confused. Quantum Computing may be a while away, but a lot of
           | companies are claiming to have launched "Quantum-ish" things,
           | so when I see things like this I do in fact assume that
           | they're implying some relation to quantum computing or
           | something else quantum.
        
         | dastbe wrote:
         | (i work at aws)
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         | so the name qldb is actually from an internal database that
         | inspired the public offering. in naming that, the focus was
         | around the quantization of individual changes (the minimum
         | amount of data necessary!) in a ledger. hence, qldb.
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         | just be happy it doesn't end with yay :).
        
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