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TMCNet: Gemini Mobile Unveils NoSQL-Based Platform [eWEEK]

[October 19, 2011]

Gemini Mobile Unveils NoSQL-Based Platform [eWEEK]

(eWEEK Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) In the late 1980s, Microsoft bought Sybase SQL Server, a powerful relational database server, and set out to compete with Oracle, Siebel, SAP and others. Later, when many IT administrators got fed up with being held hostage by then-standard MS lock-in tactics, MySQL (an opensource, freely downloadable version of the SQL database) entered the scene from Europe and was greeted with a measure of love and warmth. MySQL (bought by Sun Microsystems several years ago and now maintained by Oracle) still has a strong niche in many IT systems.

Now there's NoSQL, a lightweight, open-source relational database that uses fields instead of tables and rows, thus handling unstructured data much better than the others. More and more newgeneration IT systems are deploying it due to its inherent flexibility and low price. Free is not always best, but it is nearly always good.

With that as an introduction, Gemini Mobile Technologies recently announced the commercial release of Cloudian software, an Amazon S3-compliant cloud storage platform that enables service and cloud providers to build reliable, multitenant data storage systems. These are becoming much more in demand.

Cloudian puts to work a NoSQLbased storage layer so that service providers can offer reliable and scalable cloud storage service packages utilizing commodity hardware. They can also take advantage of the large number of applications on the Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

Cloudian is designed for highvolume and multitenant/multi-datacenter storage provisioning for virtualized resources, group support, quality of service controls, access control rights, reporting and billing - for public, private or hybrid clouds.

The platform offers a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, with no single point of failure, Gemini told eWEEK. The system is said to scale from two nodes up to hundreds of nodes across multiple data centers, and it supports petabytes of data.

System operators can use any brand of commodity server for scalability. And new node detection and data rebalancing are performed automatically without service interruption.

If you're a cloud service provider, or thinking about adding such services to your IT system, you might want to check out this option.

- Chris Preimesberger (c) 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc.

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