If you haven't heard of mongoDB, its a fast schema free document store. MongoDB uses Javascript as its query langauge, and uses a derivative of JSON called BSON for storing data. Currently the JavaScript engine used is spider monkey (Developed by Mozilla). If you checkout the lastest version of mongoDB you will be able to build it with Google's V8 JavaScript engine support. The V8 engine powers Google's new chrome browser, using this engine with mongoDB should give an amazing speed boost. This article will walk you thourgh building both V8 and mongoDB with V8 support on Ubuntu 9.10 32bit (64bit should be very similar).
First you will need to checkout the V8 engine source code. More information can be found at http://code.google.com/p/v8/. Before we checkout the code you will need a few tools and libraries.
sudo apt-get install subversion git-core tcsh git-core scons g++ libpcre++-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libreadline-dev xulrunner-1.9.1-dev
