Nick Telford works for Reading based start-up favour.it, best known for tweetmeme and their new twitter-based service datasift. Nick has been using NoSQL databases to meet the challenges inherent in dealing with large volumes of real-time information.

Nick says...

"Traditional relational databases are great for a plethora of problems, but sometimes you don't need a Jack of all trades... you need a master of one.

At DataSift we store and work with a lot of data in real-time and need a solution that fits within the budget of a start-up. This is a look at how we solved real problems in TweetMeme using Apache Cassandra, one of the more popular newcomers to the database world."