From the webpage:
The Acunu Storage Platform is a powerful storage solution that brings simpler, faster and more predictable performance to NOSQL stores like Apache Cassandra.
Our view is that the new data intensive workloads that are increasingly common are a poor match for the legacy storage systems they tend to run on. These systems are built on a set of assumptions about the capacity and performance of hardware that are simply no longer true. The Acunu Storage Platform is the result of a radical re-think of those assumptions; the result is high performance from low cost commodity hardware.
It includes the Acunu Storage Core which runs in the Linux kernel. On top of this core, we provide a modified version of Apache Cassandra. This is essentially the same as “vanilla” Cassandra but uses the Acunu Storage Core to store data instead of the Linux file system and is therefore able to take advantage of the performance benefits of our platform. In addition to Cassandra, there is also an object store similar to Amazon’s S3; we have a number of other more experimental projects in the pipeline which we’ll talk about in future posts.
Perhaps the start of something very interesting.
It took NoSQL a couple of years to flower into the range of current offerings.
I wonder if working in the kernel will have a similar path?
Will we see a graph engine as part of the kernel?