Cloud Compute? Check! Cloud Storage? Check! DB? Uh…

At least that is traditionally been the response when cloud providers look across at each other (or answer customer questions). Solving the issues of replicated, synchronized data stores in a highly fragmented and distributed architecture is a real pain.

According to GenieDB, though, they may have solved the problem:

http://gigaom.com/cloud/geniedb-designs-around-cap-to-scale-cloud-apps/

The key problem here is in being able to carry out local transactions and yet synchronize those transactions...