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FleetDB (via) Yet Another Key-Value Store: Schema-free, JSON protocol, everything cached in RAM, append-only log for durability, multi-record transactions... but what’s really interesting about this one is that it’s written in Clojure and takes full advantage of that language’s concurrency primitives. The prefix operators used by the select API hint at its Lisp heritage.

# 5th January 2010, 11:21 am / clojure, databases, fleetdb, keyvaluestore, lisp, nosql

MongoDB. Lots of discussions about this at EuroPython today—it’s a document database, very similar to CouchDB but significantly faster and suggested for production use. Best of all, trying it out on OS X is as easy as extracting the tarball and running “bin/mongod --dbpath /tmp/test-mongo-db run”.

# 30th June 2009, 7:13 pm / couchdb, documentstore, europython, json, keyvaluestore, mongodb, nonrelationaldatabase, osx