On: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon Dynamo...

[tempworkac]

It doesn't really make any sense to use it locally - the whole point is that it's managed. If you just want a clustered key value store you could use Cassandra, Garnet, etc.

[plandis → tempworkac]

I think people mostly use it for unit testing functionality since it’s generally a faster dev loop compared to running integration tests.