“NoSQL” is the new term that represents the idea, a movement, or a line of thinking that is more adapted to the needs of the current needs of web applications. High scalability (the ability to scale out, mostly) is the top priority here.
The products that are used as data storage for these solutions (think Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) are distributed memory storage solutions with low latency (data access time) for both reading and writing.
Here are some interesting projects in that regard. Open Source first…
- MongoDB (link). Read “Introducing MongoDB”.
- Voldemort (link)
… and some commercial solutions…
- Microsoft Velocity
This list is to grow as I find some interesting solutions. In the meantime, have a look at the following texts: The Future of Relational Databases and NoSQL Ecosystem.
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