Lately i came across a post by Yoshinori Matsunobu on using a community MySQL server as a no-sql solution.
In his post, Matsunobu explains the benefits and the how-to’s of rendering the community MySQL database to a No-SQL implementation thus competing with the popular solution of most high scale web applications that use MySQL with complementary memory cache.
The obvious drawback of using such a local solution is that you code an application with a tight linkage to a particular database provider (i.e. MySQL). To particular implementations and applications this is a real restriction, but MySQL is a literal
Recommended reading!