A distributed key-value database for modern web applications.
Membase is an open-source (Apache 2.0 license) distributed, key-value database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications. These applications must service many concurrent users; creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data in real-time. Supporting these requirements, membase processes data operations with quasi-deterministic low latency and high sustained throughput. (more...)
What's new?
get membase
- August 30, 2010: membase 1.6.0 beta 3 has been released!
- Get started with the latest update.
Membase 1.6 beta 3 has just been released. This release features multi-tenancy, support for Microsoft Windows UI enhancements with a new Cluster Overview and many small improvements and bug fixes.
Get Started
- With membase, there are several ways to move quickly from download to running. View the options for getting started.
- Are you the kind of developer who just wants to get to the source of the matter? Just like membase is simple to use, we've made it simple to get to the source and collaborate with other developers.
Get Help
- Have a question? There's a good chance it's already been answered in our FAQ.
- Communicate with fellow users and developers if you have a question on setting up, understanding or using membase.
Get involved
- Ready to get into the project? The membase.org contributors collaborate from across the globe. Join in the discussion on the architecture
Does the world really need another NoSQL database?
Before embarking on what has (so far) amounted to nearly 10 man-years of development effort, we invested countless hours trying to convince ourselves that the answer to that question was “no.” No sane person embarks on a project of this magnitude without careful evaluation of existing solutions.
Our need was focused: we wanted a simple, fast, elastic data management solution that could reliably store the data behind our interactive web applications. It had to be easy to develop against and even easier to manage; provide consistently low latency with high throughput; and it had to support dynamic reconfiguration of a live cluster, without impacting running applications. (more...)
Who is behind membase?
Founding sponsors of the membase project include NorthScale, Zynga and NHN.
Contributors include NorthScale, Zynga and NHN along with the contributors to the memcached project.