Thanks Russ! I found Richard Jones' old post here, and your comments on it, really helpful as well. http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/
Francis On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:24:08PM +0100, Russ Garrett wrote: > > I'd like it to be stable and mature, and realistically it would > > already be in a Debian package. > > This is my neck of the woods - we went out to silicon valley in June to meet > up with the guys behind a load of distributed/scalable data stores and try > and work out which ones were actually worth spending time on. We didn't get > too far with that though. > > For storing tiles, I'd take a look at GlusterFS (http://www.gluster.org/) - > it's a distributed filesystem which is easy to scale. It's not something > I've used very much though, so I can't say much about performance. > > For the data, it's a bit more tricky - it really depends on how relational > you need it to be and what the current scalability requirements are. There > are a load of these types of data stores about - I have a spreadsheet of > them here: http://bit.ly/nosql > > I'm on IRC if you want to chat about this stuff. > > Cheers, > > Russ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
