Uh... marketing speak really stands out on pages where I expect technical information: "the world’s most advanced distributed database".<p>Otherwise, it's nice to see S3 becoming a web storage standard (or one standard emerging in general). Openstack Swift also supports it.
How many options are there for an open source cloud storage product you can run at your own site now?<p>I'm sure I've overlooked a few, but the ones I'm aware of (roughly in chronological order of when they first became usable) are:<p>Eucalyptus's Walrus <a href="http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4" rel="nofollow">http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4</a><p>OpenStack's Swift <a href="http://swift.openstack.org/" rel="nofollow">http://swift.openstack.org/</a><p>SpiderOak's Nimbus.io <a href="https://nimbus.io/" rel="nofollow">https://nimbus.io/</a><p>Basho's Riak CS <a href="http://basho.com/products/riakcs/" rel="nofollow">http://basho.com/products/riakcs/</a><p>Glad to see so much interest in this space.<p>I think Basho made a good strategic choice with what they call "Per-Tenant Visibility", which will facilitate other cloud hosting providers that compete with Amazon reselling Riak CS as a storage service.
Basho's products look great, but I hardly hear of anyone using them. Most folks in the Ruby community tend gravitate towards MySQL, MongoDB, and Postgres. Any insight as to why that is? Riak looks like a pretty solid database too.