Terrastore - Scalable, elastic, consistent document store.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 9:29AM
Sergio Bossa in Distributed Database, HTTP, JSON, Scalability, consistentcy, database scalability, databases, distributed storage, nosql
Terrastore is a new-born document store which provides advanced scalability and elasticity features without sacrificing consistency.
Here are a few highlights:
- Ubiquitous: based on the universally supported HTTP protocol.
- Distributed: nodes can run and live everywhere on your network.
- Elastic: you can add and remove nodes dynamically to/from your running cluster with no downtime and no changes at all to your configuration.
- Scalable at the data layer: documents are partitioned and distributed among your nodes, with automatic and transparent re-balancing when nodes join and leave.
- Scalable at the computational layer: query and update operations are distributed to the nodes which actually holds the queried/updated data, minimizing network traffic and spreading computational load.
- Consistent: providing per-document consistency, you're guaranteed to always get the latest value of a single document, with read committed isolation for concurrent modifications.
- Schemaless: providing a collection-based interface holding JSON documents with no pre-defined schema, you can just create your collections and put everything you want into.
- Easy operations: install a fully working cluster in just a few commands and no XML to edit.
- Features rich: support for push-down predicates, range queries and server-side update functions.
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