Databases

Simple DBs

• CouchDB
• Amazon's SimpleDB
• DBSlayer - JSON frontend for relational DB
• XCAP - An XML Configuration Access Protocol
• BigTable
• HBase - BigTable-like (used by Hadoop)
• HyperTable
• MemcacheDB
• Tokyo Cabinet

Articles & Blog Entries

• Amazon SimpleDB and CouchDB compared
• CouchDB Performance
• Momentum Builds for Simple Databases
• Accessing SimpleDB using Java and Erlang
• Amazon SimpleDB: death of the database?
• Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing
• The new attack on the RDBMS
• Distributed Key/Value Stores
• Rethink the database
• Slacker DB's