Cloud Computing: Joyent Offers NoSQL Database As A Service
March 22, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
While database software such as Oracle or MySQL has been available for some time on Amazon Web Services, only a handful of cases exist where a customer may go to a service provider and get a scalable, NoSQL database as a service. A predecessor service meeting that description is Amazon Web Services’ DynamoDB, which is still a beta offering.
Joyent is a San Francisco infrastructure-as-a-service provider that has marched to a different drumbeat from its entry into the cloud market. The firm’s staff includes Sun Solaris expertise and it builds infrastructure based on an open source derivative of Solaris that it calls SmartOS. Gartner has put Joyent in its "challenger’s" quadrant for the cloud marketplace…
By bringing a third-party NoSQL system to its cloud, Joyent is one of the few service providers able to offer a highly scalable data management system as part of its service offering. Joyent already has a widely instrumented environment that could be useful in maintaining database operations. It makes use of Dtrace, a utility within SmartOS for finding application or system problems in near real time…
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