Question

I’m looking for a data storage solution for a project with these requirements:

1. The application creates dynamically
   a containter/table in the store.
2. For a small period of time (two
   weeks for example) that
   table/container gets a huge amount
   of inserts in parallel. Last read
   have to be immediately available.
3. The data inserted is very small, 4
   to 6 numeric columns.
4. Small query/filtering support is
   required, but no joins or cross
   queries.
5. Is needed to execute some aggregate
   functions like “Count”, “Sum”,
   “Max”, “Min” and “Avg”.

Basically, I need something like Windows Azure Table Storage but with aggregate functions.

What would you recommend?

Answer 1

RavenDB supports all you mentioned and more. Its scales very well, and supports aggregate functions via Map/Reduce queries and Linq queries. It also can run in-memory.