DataStax has just announced an $11M investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. DataStax makes products to use with NoSQL database, Cassandra. If you’re wondering what NoSQL is, check out NoSQL-Database.org. Check out the VentureBeat article for more about the investment.
Jan 29
Here’s a post from the Netflix Tech blog talking about their usage of NOsql technologies including Amazon SimpleDB, Hadoop, HBase, and Cassandra. Of special interest was the mention of Datastax, a company offering commercial support for Cassandra.
Jul 10
Cassandra is an open sourced distributed database that’s part of the Apache project. It was originally developed at Facebook. Twitter has announced that they will continue to use MySQL to store tweets but will be using Cassandra to develop a real-time analytics capability. Read the rest in the Techcrunch article.
