[staunch]

That looks potentially useful in some cases. Can you send me the code/docs for that?

[ddlatham]

http://hbase.apache.org/

[ifesdjeen]

Does it work that well for production for you? Really, that's extremely interesting.

[rb2k_]

Also look at dynamo based systems like cassandra and riak (riak seems to have a better load balancing at the moment, cassandra is a bit more "bumpy")