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Working with Numerical Data
Amazon SimpleDB is a schema-less data store and everything is stored as a UTF-8 string value. This provides application designers with the flexibility of enforcing data restrictions at the application layer without the data store enforcing constraints.
All comparisons are performed lexicographically. As a result, we highly recommend that you use negative number offsets, zero padding, and store dates in an appropriate format.
