This is just blog spam!

"I update this blog a few times a month. Don't worry -- I'm worth waiting for."

User gsteph22 has only submitted two articles, both from this crappy blog.

I think it's generally considered okay to submit your own blog here.

Oh, how horrible -- self promotion :)

Anyone tried Cassandra? I thought that was what Facebook was using for this type of thing?

Yes. Actually we [cassandra] are seeing a fair number of people switching to Cassandra from hbase because of speed and reliability (no single points of failure).

That's interesting -- we've seen a lot of the opposite, especially from the .20 release. I guess it all depends on what you need to do with it :)

MongoDB seems to be heading that way, slowly but surely.

I am using couchdb (with couchdb-lounge) to store distribute a large dataset for a computationally intensive scientific application. So far so good.

MongoDB is heading that way, but its support for partitioning, which couchdb-lounge is performing adequately already, is in alpha.

I just looked at couchdb-lounge because I'm very interested in partitioning and hadn't heard about it.

The wiki unfortunately left the important questions unanswered. Does lounge handle the rebalancing when new shards are added/removed? Do I have to take the cluster offline to add new nodes? What are the failure modes (e.g. a node failing and coming back)? How is a replacement node bootstrapped?

Since none of that is mentioned I have my doubts that lounge is handling it adequately. But I'd be glad to hear otherwise!

Berkeley DB?

Drizzle?

It's a Secret!