It occurred to me today while watching a discussion about MySQL vs. MongoDB that there needs to be more documentation about the performance of the Dev Null database, and its open source derivatives. MongoDB fanboys should be aware that it offers the following features:

100% non-blocking
Unlimited horizontal scalability
Unlimited vertical scalability
Supports Sharding
Supports Clustering
Exceeds write performance of all [...]

Today it’s the one month anniversary of Cassandra graduating to a top level Apache project. It now has a new and improved project URL: http://cassandra.apache.org
Recently you may have noticed my writing about Drizzle, but that’s not the only database system I love. I’m also a fan of Cassandra, and I’m proud to work with the [...]

If you want to know what memcached is all about, check out my recent post about memcached on The Rackspace Cloud Blog.
In order to use memcached in the cloud, you may need to run it on a public network. This introduces a rash of security concerns. Originally memcached was only intended for use on private [...]