If you have been looking at getting into using document-oriented storage, you have probably looked at the variety of NoSQL offerings such as CloudDB, Elasticsearch, or MongoDB. These databases are built for scalability, performance, and high availability, tailored for gathering large quantities of data in a reliable manner.
My personal preference is MongoDB, as the support for it is very solid and the C# driver is great for the .NET applications I build. Recently, while working on a pet project, I started playing around with MongoLab to host a cloud storage of the data.
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On a recent project using Sitecore 6.6, we ran across a strange performance problem with logging in visitors to the site. As the day went along, the response time for logging in a visitor to the site would slow down. Combined with Windows Authentication being required, this meant that initial loads of all pages were slowing down for all users throughout the day. The initial login times were in the milliseconds range, but by mid-day some users were taking up to 8 full seconds just to complete a login call, aside from any page load times.
