Sat.Sep 08, 2018

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The Anna Key-Value Store Now Has 355x the Performance of DynamoDB for the Dollar

High Scalability

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware.