Operational Cloud Databases Come Of Age
Transactional databases are increasingly part of these mission-critical IT infrastructures.
The first question I asked Fauna was the one they always get: does the world need another cloud database?
Results of a recent survey about databases shed light on enterprise use, priorities, and trends.
FaunaDB combines the scale and flexibility of NoSQL with the safety and data integrity of relational systems. The company refers to this as Relational NoSQL.
An organization that wants to power a transactional application using a single database that spans multiple data centers around the world without giving up ACIDity has few good options.
Startup process modeling services provider ShiftX uses FaunaDB as it looks to go global. Data consistency and speedy builds were factors in the choice.
This article outlines some of the consistency issues NoSQL databases have with distributed transactions, showing how FaunaDB has solved the problems using the Calvin protocol and a virtual clock.
After solving Twitter’s scaling woes, Evan Weaver and Matt Freels set their sights on creating a massively scalable NoSQL database that doesn’t sacrifice data consistency, security, or relational querying. The result, FaunaDB, is a modern and cloud-native solution for heavily distributed applications that breaks free of the traditional client-server oriented systems.
The report reveals that cloud adoption and security concerns are key considerations in choosing enterprise datastores.
