Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang by Amazon.com. It forgoes data consistency for high availability and fault tolerance.

1. Apache Cassandra on Windows? Absolutely!

   Outside of politics and religion, nothing can get the blood rolling in tech folk’s bodies more than a healthy debate on the merits of operating systems, such as Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac. Personally, I’ve never used Mac in a production environment, but I have plenty of experience ...

2. Wiki Index

3. BigData Driving Adoption of NoSQL in the Enterprise

   According to a recent Evans Data Study, “NoSQL is being rapidly accepted by corporate enterprise developers in North America with 56% reporting at least some use of the schemaless database and 63% citing plans to use in the next two years according to Evans Data’s recently released North American ...

4. How to Navigate the New World of Database Technologies

   Good article from Billy Bosworth on how emerging database technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Amazon SimpleDB and Azure are impacting the business and provides strategies on how to deal with it. Originally featured in eWeek 2/3/11 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/How-to-Navigate-the-New-World-of-Database-Technologies/ How to Navigate the New ...

5. Quest Software announces Cassandra support in Toad for Cloud Databases and a partnership with Riptano.

   Quest Software, Inc.  (QSFT 26.15, +0.68, +2.65%) today added Apache Cassandra, an open-source NoSQL database, to its list of supported NoSQL platforms with the second beta release of Toad(R) for Cloud Databases. Toad now supports data access and management for Apache Cassandra, Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Azure ...

6. Why Use a NoSQL Database?

   NoSQL databases were born mostly from web-centric companies needing to solve problems out of the reach of modern relational databases. For those of us who are not running web-centric companies, are these NoSQL databases useful? I think they could be. Although the problems that motivated the NoSQL database movement may ...

7. Where did NoSQL Come From?

   Relational databases have reigned for so long that it is truly amazing to see a whole new class of databases emerging. These so-called NoSQL databases are decidedly non-relational in almost every regard: architecture, schema capabilities, APIs ­– even support for ACID transactions. (Carlo Strozzi first used the term NoSQL over 10 ...

8. Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design

   By now it should be obvious that I'm quite fond of alternatives data stores (call them NoSQL if you must). I've given quite a few talks on the subjects recently, and had the honor of being a guest on the (German) heise Developer Podcast on NoSQL. There's ...

9. Cloud (AKA NoSQL) Databases and me

   I’ve been an RDBMS guy now since about 1988.    Around the time my first son Chris was born, the government department were I worked shifted from an ADABAS/MVS environment to an Oracle/VMS system, and I was dropped headfirst into joy of Oracle 5.1.  Since then I ...