Stasis which talks about making features of databases orthogonal and composable. Eric Brewer also describes how to do it in his talk Advancing Distributed Systems
FoundationDB (modestly “The Best Key-Value Store in the World”) is a non-relational key-value store, but also supports transactions.
Other stories about transactions over non-relational databases on lobsters
CockroachDB, seemingly an OSS Spanner.
Calvin, which lets you build transactions on top of a key-value store.
Virtual Synchrony Replication lets you build transactions on top of a key-value store.
other useful linksPercolator, the paper that inspired AtlasDB.
Stasis which talks about making features of databases orthogonal and composable. Eric Brewer also describes how to do it in his talk Advancing Distributed Systems
FoundationDB (modestly “The Best Key-Value Store in the World”) is a non-relational key-value store, but also supports transactions.