Hypertable 0.9 alpha is out.

“Hypertable is a high performance distributed data storage system designed to support applications requiring maximum performance, scalability, and reliability. Hypertable will be particularly invaluable to any organization that needs to manage rapidly evolving data to support demanding real-time applications. Modeled after Google’s well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience to machine and component failures. Hypertable seeks to set the open source standard for highly available, petabyte scale, database systems. ” (link)

Update: LinuxWorld has an article, Zvents releases open-source cluster database, on the release along with a podcast with Doug Judd, principal search architect for Zvents.

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