Distributed document databases

There is now a kind of global acknowledgement that RDBMS are not well-suited for all new business applications in SOA. I've already mentioned new databases like SimpleDB or Vertica the new project from Michael Stonebraker.

Here is a collection on links about DDD (distributed document databases):

StrokeDB (for Ruby)

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/distributed-db-strokedb

http://strokedb.com/

http://strokedb.com/euruko2008.pdf (nice and innovating kind of presentation)

http://rashkovskii.com/articles/2008/2/14/strokedb-short-intro

CouchDB (written in Erlang)

http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/11/the-rdbms-is-not-enough

http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/

http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/docs/intro.html

http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/docs/overview.html

RDDB (sub-project of CouchDB)

http://rddb.rubyforge.org/