Screaming Penguin

Prevalyer sounds pretty darn cool. Holds all objects in RAM and persists to serialized object file at specified intervals. Also keeps track of changes via a log BETWEEN intervals. This means a system with mega ram can SKIP THE DATABASE and be "3251 Times Faster than MySQL" and "9983 Times Faster than ORACLE." This is for queries on objects, transactional processing is more in line with databases, but queries are the bulk of work in most web apps. Sounds pretty darn cool, checkit via the link.   http://www.prevayler.org/index.html