NorthScale Launches Membase Server
NorthScale today at the GigaOm Structure 2010 conference unveiled a database offering that leverages the distributed cache technology developed for use in memcached platforms that are driving a new wave of elastic data management in the era of the cloud.
According to James Phillips, senior vice president of products for NorthScale, Membase Server adds a low-latency approach to storing data that is a much lower-cost alternative to slower SQL databases.
Like the rest of NorthScale’s products, Membase is available as an open source project. Memcache has become increasingly popular with application developers looking to take advantage of distributed memory to process data much faster than they can using a database that needs to make calls to a disk.
But developers still need a place to store data. With Membase, Phillips said IT organizations now have an alternative that not only reduces costs by eliminating the need for a commercial database and the systems it runs on, it reduces the expense associated with hiring all the people needed to manage those systems.
Phillips said that Membase is another element of the NoSQL movement that is trying to reduce the cost of enterprise computing by reducing dependencies on expensive SQL databases.
As an open source project, Membase server is currently in beta.
Mike Vizard
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Stay Connected to CTO Edge
Comments
Post new comment