Clustrix Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That Scales

Clustrix, a Y Combinator graduate from 2006, launched today with the claim that it’s built a transaction database with MySQL-like functionality and reliability that can scale to billions of entries. Clustrix plans to sell its appliance (which consists of more than a terabyte of memory and its proprietary software) to web firms that don’t want to take on the complicated task of sharding their data (replicating it across multiple databases), or moving to less robust database options like Cassandra or a key value store such as what’s provided by Twitter.
(Link: Clustrix Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That Scales)