Voldemort Reviews

Voldemort Description

Voldemort does not have a relational database. It doesn't attempt to satisfy arbitrary relationships while also satisfying ACID properties. It is not an object database that attempts transparently to map object reference graphs. Nor does it introduce a new abstraction such as document-orientation. It is essentially a large, distributed, persistent, fault-tolerant, hash table. This will allow applications to use O/R maps like active-record and hibernate, which will provide horizontal scaling and greater availability, but with a great loss in convenience. A system may consist of many functionally partitioned APIs or services that can manage storage resources across multiple data centres using storage systems that may be themselves horizontally partitioned. This is useful for large applications that are subject to internet-type scalability. Because all data is not in one database, it is impossible to make arbitrary in-database connections for applications in this space.