Introduction:

The non-relational databases have enjoyed a dramatic increase in its usage. Though Cassandra, MongoDB and many others have enjoyed a period of enormous success recently however; NoSQL Now Conference has named Stig to be the one around which year’s buzz has surrounded. Stig is a data store which is still to be released, most probably in 2012.

Specifications:

With the enormous rise in social networking sites usage in last few years, the storage of their data has become a major problem for the owners and designers.

• Stig is specifically designed for storing the data of social networking sites.
• Created by Jason Lucas, a software engineer at a social networking site, it is designed to support the heavy web applications.
• Written in Haskell operational programming language, this data store can divide its workload on several servers.
• Interferential searching: specially designed for interactive activity, this data store allows the users to look for connections between segregated parts of information.

Current Status:

• Currently Stig is being operated on Tagged’s one server.
• The company has planned to make it extensive enough to be used as the sole data store of organization.
• The date of its release has not yet been announced but it is expected anytime in 2012.

Future Expectations:

Until the data store Stig is released, it would remain a mystery for all. However, expectations from Stig are higher. Developers of Stig expect it to make a considerable place in the world of social networking and become a large and solo source of storing data. The developers find social networking to be beneficial enough to provide a count and scale of data required to be stored. Lucas said ‘You can’t be a relevant service in this space without being able to scale to a planetary size’.