Then it does sound like either one of:<div> - Couchbase http://www.couchbase.com - which is what I had in mind as a memcached supporting cache/db<br> - Riak (as Anthony had suggested)</div><div>...would suit your needs.</div><div><br></div><div>Riak is mature and massively scalable by design. Couchbase is also highly scalable, offers document-oriented storage and a js query interface.</div><div><br></div><div>It's hard to predict which would suit you best, as that would depend on your data and current infrastructure. </div><div><br></div><div>Both are definitely worth doing the "due diligence" on.</div><div><br></div><div>/s</div><div><br>On Friday, December 7, 2012 12:49:59 PM UTC-6, David Fox wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">
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RESTful API, but since this API will be used in a wide variety of
places (e.g., web/html5 games, mobile, flash, etc) and not just
internally, we decided having a RESTful API would be a good idea
and make using the API in development quicker/easier.<br><br></div>
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