Interesting stuff. I read a few more articles here and walked away with more questions than answers. CassFS definitely looks fun learning project. What I'd r

Interesting stuff. I read a few more articles here and walked away with more questions than answers. CassFS definitely looks fun learning project. What I'd really love to see, is an article that explains the goals/niche/maturity/strengths/weaknesses of various distributed storage solutions. Can anyone here offer a recommendation? (For example, here's something similar: http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... ) I've been casually researching this topic for months and I still feel so overwhelmed! Not many people are giving a clear picture of what they're trying to accomplish, when/how their system should be used, and how they compare to others. I'm mostly asking because I recently ended up writing my own. It's just a Python script that sends a UDP message to all our servers asking who has the file. First person to respond wins and the file is downloaded via nginx. Replication is accomplished with durable message queues which are consumed during off-peak hours. It took days to code and suits our needs perfectly. I learned from this project that reliable, scalable, distributed data storage is very simple, if you focus on solving a very specific use-case scenario.