membase

We just got word from GigaOM that they’ve chosen NorthScale as one of 11 companies to present at this year’s LaunchPad (during the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco). We are excited to take the stage on June 23 to unveil the next wave of our elastic data technology and noSQL strategy. 30 days and counting…

We launched NorthScale with our story on working with Zynga.

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On Monday, analyst Matt Aslett posted How will pro-SQL respond to NoSQL? on The 451 Group’s “Too Much Information” blog. Good read. The gist of the post was: There are a bunch of individuals and companies running around claiming that their particular flavor of SQL database technology, memcached, or “NoSQL” database technology is “best.” The title implies that there is a “pro-SQL” camp and a NoSQL camp at odds with each other, battling for some prize. He concludes very practically: This should not be an “us versus them” kind of thing. We couldn’t agree more. NorthScale is neither pro-SQL nor NoSQL, we’re pro-choice.

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Memcached Keeps You Wanting More

Memcached is a pretty simple system with pretty simple semantics. Many users have wished for just a little more functionality than provided out of the box which has led to several forks and related projects.

To accommodate what are really just minimal differences, lots of projects have spun up as either forks of memcached, or entirely new projects

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