I don't understand; Clustrix (which rocks) isn't on the April index at all [1]. Is closing a round sufficient for it to debut at #5 for May? That doesn't seem very predictive.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/april-2013-startup-index-1183-companies-71-are-growing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/april-2013-startup-in...</a>
FYI: For some reason, when I load the page, I see the Wordpress toolbar at the top. I can't do anything (like edit the post) since I'd have to login, but I still see the toolbar. It's a bit odd.
"Before Clustrix an entirely different kind of datastore, such as MongoDB, would be used. This requires developers to split up their data across multiple servers and use a map reduce algorithm in order to query across all the data."<p>Uhm, no.<p>Sharding is orthogonal to map-reduce, and you wouldn't use map-reduce on MongoDB or otherwise for anything OLTP. (MR on Mongo is SLOW)<p>Something that makes sharding easier/more automagic is nice though. I hate sharding anything that isn't Redis or MongoDB.