by Angela Guess
Brian Proffitt of IT World recently looked into the lesser-known NoSQL solution, Citrusleaf. Proffitt writes, “You could be forgiven for not knowing about Citrusleaf, the NoSQL database vendor out of Mountain View, CA. I certainly didn’t, but I attributed that to still being new to the NoSQL/big data scene. But while I was doing the usual background research on the company, there wasn’t that much to find. This may not be so much an attribute of the company’s size and performance, however, as much as the rather specialized nature of its products and the sector to which Citrusleaf is marketing itself.”
Proffitt continues, “In the NoSQL spectrum, Citrusleaf most definitely falls into the key-value database class. According to co-founder and CTO Srini V. Srinivasan, the emphasis of the database is on short-request, real-time database problems that Srinivasan claims hits near ’100 percent uptime.’ This combination of high performance and high availability is intriguing, and also gives a big clue about Citrusleaf’s target market: the real-time advertising sector, which definitely needs this kind of speed and uptime.”
photo credit: Citrusleaf
