This week in cloud: Rackspace and Cloudant team; OpenNebula updates
December 17, 2012
Cloudant aims for cloud ubiquity with Rackspace partnership; OpenNebula offers private testing cloud inside Amazon Web Services; and Dell vows (late) OpenStack-based public cloud, partners with Inktank on Ceph storage.
Cloudant, the Cambridge, Mass.-area startup that wants to make its NoSQL database service ubiquitous, took another step in that direction this week– adding the Rackspace cloud to platforms it supports. Cloudant already runs on Amazon Web Services, Joyent, Microsoft Azure and SoftLayer infrastructure. That gives both Cloudant and Rackspace customers more options. Cloudant customers tend to deploy very dsitributed data-intensive, real-time applications, which are a good fit with Rackspace’s reach and performance, Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle said in a statement…
The Cloudant Data Layer builds on a CouchDB-compatible “RESTful JSON API, built-in full text search from Apache Lucene and an incremental MapReduce Engine, the company said. (REST stands for representational state transfer and developers increasingly turn to RESTful APIs to build to build scalable, real-time web applications. JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is commonly used standard data interchange format.)
Cloud vendors, not surprisingly, are pushing their respective infrastructure as a platform for database processing jobs. A few weeks ago, Amazon, with partner Paraccel, launched RedShift, a new data warehouse application. For other database loads, Amazon ‘s Relational Database Service (RDS) gives customers a choice of running MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle databases. It also offers its own home-grown DynamoDB as a NoSQL option and SimpleDB…
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