What are good NoSQL and non-relational database solutions for audit/logging database

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What would be suitable database for following? I am especially interested about your experiences with non-relational NoSQL systems. Are they any good for this kind of usage, wh

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We used Redis to do all our centralized logging for all our app servers at mflow.com. It is very fast, which based on these benchmarks it does about 110000 SETs per second, about 81000 GETs per second. It has a VM implementation (if your dataset exceeds available memory) which swaps out un-frequented values out to disk.

It's an advanced data-structures server that can store any binary-safe data with native support for strings, lists, sets, sorted sets and hashes. Based on discussions on the mailing list it is heavily used by a lot of people to store analytics.