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Cloud computing is the big new thing. The fate of the formerly ubiquitous relational database, on the other hand, is uncertain. There are many ways for a developer to deploy his application to the "cloud", whatever that might mean. On the other hand, the various cloud vendors do not necessarily have a database story to tell, or if they do that story isn't necessarily a good one. As a result,