I was recently reading a blog where I came across this movement.


Here's a list of projects that could potentially replace RDBMS.
  • Project Voldemort
  • Ringo
  • Scalaris
  • Kai
  • Dynomite
  • MemcacheDB
  • ThruDB
  • CouchDB
  • Cassandra
  • HBase
  • Hypertable