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The shape of the NoSQL landscape is changing. The first big market aggregation took place with the merger of Membase Inc. with CouchOne.

The new company called Couchbase will merge the existing products (based on Membase, Memcached and CouchDB) into one integrated product family.

The companies describe the merger as a real synergy or optimal fit. Membase will enhance CouchDB performance by providing an efficient, scalable and distributed caching layer and speeding up view server operations. CouchDB replaces the Membase persistence store (SQLLite) and enhances Membase with querying, indexing, map-reduce and more database capabilities. It also benefits from the more mature operations and tools support that Membase offers. The combination of both allows the new products to serve many more different customer needs than before and scale up to millions of users or down to a single mobile device.

More about this here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/02/couchbase

Store your data in Google’s cloud

Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google’s infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google’s cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities. Highlights include:

Fast, scalable, highly available object store

• All data replicated to multiple U.S. data centers
• Read-your-writes data consistency
• Objects of hundreds of gigabytes in size per request with range-get support
• Domain-scoped bucket namespace

Easy, flexible authentication and sharing

• Key-based authentication
• Authenticated downloads from a web browser
• Individual- and group-level access controls

More about this here: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/

Cloud computing is the use of distributed servers, all interconnected, to provide unprecedented and highly scalable storage and computing power. The cloud is not just for network administrators, though — it is also a key development area for web developers looking to build scalable web applications. Web developers now have access to cloud-based development services, allowing them to easily create, deploy and host applications.

Read more here: http://www.hotscripts.com/blog/cloudbased-services-web-developers/

Web APIs change the way content and services are consumed and manipulated. Web developers can take advantage of 1000s of APIs to add more content or functionality to their site. We’ve compiled a list of 10 most useful APIs you can consider using for your web site or application.

Read more about this here: http://www.hotscripts.com/blog/10-apis-web-applications/