Key-value stores

[KentState]

In my never ending quest to continue learning, I've started ready about key-value stores and their advantages/disadvantages over a relational database. My biggest problem is finding straight forward documentation on how data is actually stored and how to query against the store.

 

[degibson]

Have a look at BigTable.
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html

 

[Markbnj]

Might want to also take a look at MongoDB and documentation for it.

 

[bhanson]

Amazon SimpleDB