The software includes the following features:

- Document-oriented storage: JSON-style documents with dynamic schemas offer simplicity and power.

- Full Index Support: Index on any attribute, just like you’re used to.

- Replication & High Availability. Mirror across LANs and WANs for scale and peace of mind.

- Auto-Sharding. Scale horizontally without compromising functionality.

- Querying. Rich, document-based queries.

- Fast In-Place Updates. Atomic modifiers for contention-free performance.

- Map/Reduce. Flexible aggregation and data processing.

- GridFS. Store files of any size without complicating your stack.

- Commercial Support. Enterprise class support, training, and consulting available.

The key features of this development framework include:

- Practical Object-Oriented design that isn’t overly strict, needlessly complex, or focused on trying to be like Java.

- Representational State Transfer (REST) is a core part of the Alloy module architecture, and is built-in and accounted for from the beginning, not bolted-on as an afterthought.

- Coding simplicity and flexibility. Code flow is easier to follow, understand, and manipulate.

- No configuration or setup: Works out-of-the-box with no initial configuration or command-line setup required. Drag and drop files or upload directly to your web server.

- Serve your app from a root domain, subdomain, or a subfolder as many levels deeps as you like.

Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. Led by the Apache Software Foundation it was designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure.

It is a NoSQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powers their Inbox Search feature. Cassandra provides a structured key-value store with eventual consistency. Keys map to multiple values, which are grouped into column families. The column families are fixed when a Cassandra database is created, but columns can be added to a family at any time.

Key features of the system include:

- Decentralized: every node in the cluster is identical. There is no single point of failure.

- Fault-tolerant: data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime.

- Tunable consistency: writes and reads offer a tunable ConsistencyLevel, all the way from “writes never fail” to “block for all replicas to be readable,” with the quorum level in the middle.

- Elasticity: Read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications.

Further Info & Reading

For a more in-depth analysis and practical guide to Cassandra take a look at Eben Hewitt’s Cassandra: The Definitive Guide.

Alternatively, Beautiful Data by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher provides an excellent overview of working with data from the perspective of 39 contributors working on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video. The book also includes a section on Cassandra.

It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match your enterprise’s development guidelines, symfony is bundled with additional tools helping you to test, debug and document your project.

Using symfony is so natural and easy for people used to PHP and the design patterns of Internet applications that the learning curve is reduced to less than a day. The clean design and code readability will keep your delays short. Developers can apply agile development principles (such as DRY, KISS or the XP philosophy) and focus on applicative logic without losing time to write endless XML configuration files.

Here are just some of the standard features:
* Simple Installation
* Graphical Content Editors (automatic code generation)
* RSS Content Syndication
* Powerful/Extensible 3rd Party Extension System
* Flexible Site Theming Capabilities
* Free & Open Source (GPL v2 License)
* Site Search
* REST enabled
* User Management
* Multilingual
* Stable, Secure, and Mature

It has no external dependencies like PHP extensions and works on both PHP5 and PHP4.

It uses SimplePie for reading the feeds, which ensures that almost any feed can be read, and also uses HTML Purifier, to protect your site from nasty XSS.

The name Madeam comes from a hack of the sentence “Made after midnight” or “Made AM”. It represents the long hours spent by every programmer working on a project in the middle of the night. Programmers are nocturnal and the name is to honor that culture.

SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file. The database file format is cross-platform – you can freely copy a database between 32-bit and 64-bit systems or between big-endian and little-endian architectures. These features make SQLite a popular choice as an Application File Format. Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()

It’s features include:

* No Configuration – Set-up the database and let the magic begin

* Extremely Simple – Just look at the name…It’s Cake

* Active, Friendly Community – Join us #cakephp on IRC. We’d love to help you get started.

* Flexible License – Distributed under the MIT License

* Clean IP – Every line of code was written by the CakePHP development team

* Best Practices – covering security, authentication, and session handling, among the many other features.

* OO – Whether you are a seasoned object-oriented programmer or a beginner, you’ll feel comfortable