With all the hype going around scalable database, a company named FathomDB decided to provide database as a service in Rackspace and Amazon EC2. It is very exciting if you are already with Rackspace or Amazon but not so interesting when you are hosted somewhere else as latency will kill your application. But if your looking for a scalable database solution and already with the mentioned cloud service providers then give FathomDB a go. Watch the video below. It will give you more insight on what they are trying to achieve.

To learn more about FathomDB go to their website http://fathomdb.com