Cloud Computing Integrates Next-Gen Databases

With every minute of uptime crucial, developers need to be able to deploy backend solutions for their Websites that house, support and access huge amounts of related data. Without it, both vendor and developer will be seeing that dreaded error message more often than not. Industry efforts to architect next generation databases that can scale massively by pairing open source databases and content management technologies with cloud-computing are underway. The door is also “opening” to a whole new world of user benefits which will be made possible by access to data - cross-cloud - in non-proprietary database. The Apache Cassandra Project and Drizzle are open alternatives to traditional databases that offer new opportunities by utilizing cloud computing to improve performance. Both are going to change the way we think about databases for the next few decades.

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