Tag Archives: Memcached

When four key value data stores each claim well-known enterprises and organizations as users, it’s probably because they each have something to offer – and something different in each case. Choosing between them will depend on individual requirements or constraints. The starting points are these: Redis is in-memory with configurable trade-off between persistency and performance Riak is a distributed, fault-tolerant ... Read More »

The information world has changed. Those neatly packaged rows and columns of conventional relational databases are no longer the be-all and end-all of data management. In this cyber-age, NoSQL databases now go boldly where relational databases cannot; yet where businesses and users must. NoSQL (or in fact, ‘NoRel’ for ‘not only relational’) databases are Big Data friendly. They can handle ... Read More »