NOSQL databases have become pretty trendy lately – especially with the news that big players like Facebook and Twitter are using the technology to scale into arbitrary dimensions. And there’s already a number of players on the court: projects like CouchDB and MongoDB are becoming more and more popular. And in fact jumping aboard this hype’s train seems to be worth the risk: Scaling where only the sky is the limit, completely transparent failure tolerance, easy to use schema-free document storage and a nice mapping to RESTful and cloudy concepts carry the promise of previously unknown efficiency both for the programmer and today’s servers’ horsepower.
