"Riak is a Dynamo-inspired key/value store that scales predictably and easily. Riak also simplifies development by giving developers the ability to quickly prototype, test, and deploy their applications.

A truly fault-tolerant system, Riak has no single point of failure. No machines are special or central in Riak, so developers and operations professionals can decide exactly how fault-tolerant they want and need their applications to be."

"remodel is meant as a direct replacement for ActiveRecord using Redis and offers familiar syntax (has_many, belongs_to ...) to build your domain model in ruby."

#NoSQL RT @moronkreacionz: check redis cluster monitor http://is.gd/4ZxSj

Austin NoSQL Camp planned for Feb. 2010. Looking for more sponsors... http://bit.ly/3Mi1Lq (organized by @linearb)

census data available as an EBS store

Freebase, created by Metaweb Technologies, is an open database of the world’s information. It’s built by the community and for the community – free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.

ActiveRecord::Migration.add_index :topics, :title