Cloud Computing Info

Need a database in your cloud? Check out CouchDB.

What is CouchDB?

CouchDB is an Apache project. CouchDB is not a relational database. It seems that cloud computing has spawned, or at least made popular, a new breed of database. Rather than the hierarchical, network or relational databases of yore*, we have a new paradigm: key/value pairs. You declare a field and assign some values.

*I left object database and xml database off my database of yore list as they never really caught on.

SimpleDB is another key/value database that you may have heard of or used. SimpleDB is provided as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS).