# Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores

DevFeed: [Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores-25815.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores>)

Author: {"image"=\>"rj-headshot.jpg", "greetings"=\>nil}

Published: 2009-01-19T06:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Richard Jones](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/richard-jones.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-computing.md>)

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## AI overview

This article presents research notes on distributed key-value and document stores that could replace groups of relational database shards under suitable conditions. It discusses use cases, replication and partitioning concerns, related systems and background research, while noting that the material was written in January 2009 and may be outdated.

## Source excerpt

Please Note: this was written January 2009 - see the comments for updates and additional information. A lot has changed since I wrote this.