integrated data management application, competitor for products like Microsoft Access. It can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. etc...
flexible template based code generator written in Microsoft.NET. Great at generating code for ORM architectures. The meta-data from your database is made available to the templates through the MyMeta API.
All of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in Missouri Botanical Gardens electronic databases during the past 25 years are publicly available here. This system has over one million scientific names and 3.5 million specimen records.
The term "sharding" was coined by Google engineers, and popularized through their publication of the Big Table architecture. However, the concept of "shared-nothing" database partitioning has been around for a decade or more and there have been many implementations over this period, especially high profile in-house built solutions by Internet leaders such as eBay, Amazon, Digg, Flickr, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Friendster, and Wikipedia.