Rackspace Unveils Cloud Database as a Service
December 27, 2012
Rackspace has made a name for itself providing Cloud infrastructure. The future is definitely in the Cloud, as security becomes less of an issue and price continues to drop. Rackspace’s newest offering is Cloudant, a Cloud database as service. Read the full details in the CRN.com story, “Rackspace Unveils Cloud Database as a Service with Cloudant.”
The article begins:
“Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace is offering a database as a service for developers of Web and mobile applications in its Cloud Tools program. The NoSQL database as a service is provided by Cloudant through its Data Layer, a collection of database clusters hosted in Rackspace’s worldwide data centers. Cloudant’s Data Layer offers a CouchDB-compatible, RESTful JSON API; a MapReduce engine; and built-in full-text search, based on Apache Lucene, which is a Java-based, open-source information retrieval library.”
Apache Lucene is a powerful base on which to build. LucidWorks also uses the power of Lucene as its source. LucidWorks offers a different type of product, primarily search and Big Data solutions for the enterprise. The emergence of such popular and effective solutions based on open source infrastructure is proof that the future is in open source, and that organizations need to stay in tune with the latest technology in order to stay relevant and effective.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 27, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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