Did we forget to mention there is another set of databases on the rise? They are called as NewSQL databases. They are not NoSQL databases but they are NewSQL, a newly scalable databases with ACID characteristics. These are not “eventually consistent” database as you would see them in NoSQL databases.
ScaleDB is one of the scalable NewSQL database based on MySQL. It is almost like Real Application Clusters of Oracle. Its like that using MySQL. It can run on the cloud as you can add or remove database nodes dynamically on the fly to leverage database virtualization. It can run within your corporate data center or on the public cloud. ScaleDB automatically recovers the failed nodes without any interruption to the application. As you might have guessed, its a shared everything database. According to ScaleDB, it offers:
- Large data sets
- Large numbers of concurrent users
- Large numbers of tables with complex relationships (e.g. using joins, materialized views, etc.)
- ACID compliant transaction processing
- Load balancing (e.g. to address temporal shifts in usage patterns)
- High-availability with smooth fail-over
- An evolving application with changing data storage requirements
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Related:
ScaleBase – A Database Load Balancer for Cloud
