Whats unique about the Backplane database?
Backplane is the only open-source, transactional, truly distributed database. Designed to run on a larger number of small servers (rather than a smaller number of large servers), it is possible to spread the database nodes widely, requiring database operation to work efficiently over WAN latencies while maintaining full transactional coherency across the entire replication group. A fundamental innovation of this open source database core is its quorum-based replication, providing unique advantages in many areas, including fast, low-cost maintenance and near realtime backups.
