WIDE SHOT: COMPUTER LAB
NEPTUNE
(...Emerging from the sea,
which has materialized in
the corner of the computer
lab, much to the chagrin of
the sysadmin.)
Thou darest call Grand-DynamoDB the first true-serverless
graph database? [BOOMING] Audacity!
JORDAN
(Without turning or looking
away from laptop)
Tell me the Neptune pricing model.
NEPTUNE
(Rearing from throne of
seafoam, shaking seawater
off of his beard with rage)
Thou simply payest for thine virtual machine!
JORDAN
That sounds serverful to me.
NEPTUNE
Yet thou needn't manage thine own server!
JORDAN
Actually that kinda sounds like a disadvantage, if
I'm going to the trouble of paying for CPU-hours anyway.
NEPTUNE
(Red with fury, seamounts
erupting in vicinity)
FOOL! If thou would to pay only per-request, thou
haveth DynamoDB, among other offerings!
JORDAN
Yep, exactly. I don't use my graph database 24/7, so
it doesn't make sense to pay for an always-on VM-equivalent.
(NEPTUNE grows thoughtful)
So Grand wraps DynamoDB with a graph-based API so that you
can treat data stored in DynamoDB like any other graph.
NEPTUNE
Ah, I see thine logic.
(...Detecting a potential weakness!)
But havest thou a standardized API?!
JORDAN
Aye— I mean, yes. Grand supports interacting with a graph
with standard NetworkX or IGraph APIs, among others.
NEPTUNE
(Washing gradually back
into the ocean, calmed...
SUN appears over the
SERVER RACKS)
I am humbled. Thou mayest proceed.