VMware's vFabric SQLFire became GA today. It is a memory-optimized distributed SQL database delivering dynamic scalability and high performance for data-intensive modern applications. SQLFire provides developers with a simple SQL interface and Spring developers can connect their application easily using plain JDBC.

• The SQLFire blog by Jags Ramnaryan provides an excellent introduction to the problems that this product helps to solve.
• Jags also provides a great video Introduction to SQLFire on YouTube.
• There is a great step by step tutorial to get you started with SQLFire.
• Interested developers can always ask questions in the SQLFire community discussion forum.

So if you are looking for a high performance, dynamically scaling data solution that has simple SQL access, be sure to download SQLFire and give it a try.