For the work I'm doing on spam protection here at work I've written a sort of replicated database using POE, CDB files, and HTTP. You basically get to store spams in the database, and it gets automatically replicated to all peers. It works using POE's delay/alarm system - so we basically say that replication happens every N seconds. You can add entries to the database on any of the servers and it gets sent to the "master" who then replicates to everyone. The code is also identical on the master as on the clients, which is kinda cool.
All the requests are via HTTP, which supports my notion of SOAP sucking and how you should use HTTP instead of SOAP... So basically you request http://server/spamlist/
Ironically I had a thought - none of this *really* needs a replicated database - it could all just work using a single http server and http proxy servers on the peers. However I think it would be a bit higher latency in some cases, and we deal with a lot of email here, so latency is bad.
Oh, and all of this is to replace Razor, because Razor is really flaky (which is unfortunate). It's a shame I won't be able to open source this, but it's going to be a major business component I think, and so they'll want to hold onto that as IP here.
Oh, and it also supports white/black lists. However I'm not entirely sure how that will work, since the white/black listing will work on a per-company basis, so we'll need to use different databases for each company...