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Pras Sarkar blogs about web technology, music, social networks, digital identities and other random things.

Anti-RDBMS and distributed key-value stores

I've been comparing and playing with a bunch of distributed key-value stores lately. Here's an annotated list of interesting articles: Richard Jones (from Last.fm) has compiled an useful comparison of the various distributed key-values stores out there including MemcacheDB, Cassandra and CouchDB. He seems most interested in Scalaris and Project Voldemort. redis seems to be a very interesting key-value store. It behaves like memcached but supports strings, lists and sets as ...

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