The author, Kyle Kingsbury (aka aphyr[1]), has done an amazing experimental analysis of several distributed databases/datastores recently[2]. I hope his experim

The author, Kyle Kingsbury (aka aphyr[1]), has done an amazing experimental analysis of several distributed databases/datastores recently[2]. I hope his experiments and writings not only shine some light into how these systems actually behave in practice, but also influence the underlying projects to improve. [1] https://github.com/aphyr https://github.com/aphyr [2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/partitioning-comparison http://www.infoq.com/presentations/partitioning-comparison