The Database Deluge… Who’s Who
These are the top NoSQL Solutions in the market today that are open source, readily available, with a strong and active community, and actively making forward progress in development and innovations in the technology. I’ve provided them here, in no order, with basic descriptions, links to their main website presence, and with short lists of [...]
Couchbase – Consolidation Begins In Big Data Space
One of the common comment from those watching the Big Data space is that there are too many projects that makes it too difficult to chose the right set of tools for the user needs. Well, the consolidation process has started with the merger of Membase (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company supporting open source [...]
Cloudant Gains Traction With Hosted CouchDB And Analytics Offering
Image via Wikipedia Cloudant, the company offering cloud based CouchDB solutions and creator of BigCouch open source product, has been gaining good traction ever since they delivered their first version of Cloudant in Q3 of 2010. In Q4 of 2010 alone they have seen 400% growth in customers using Cloudant’s hosting services since the release [...]
10Gen Raises $6.5M funding To Push MongoDB Ahead In The NoSQL Race
10Gen, the commercial company behind Open Source MongoDB NoSQL database, today announced a $6.5 Million round of funding. This round is lead by Sequoia Capital with participation from prior investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures. The open source MongoDB database has 90,000 downloads per month and companies like bit.ly, foursquare, IGN and Sourceforge [...]
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL
Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition. A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing [...]
SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First
Ever since Oracle acquired MySQL, there is a lingering question in the minds of SaaS companies that had relied heavily on MySQL and the analysts who follow the space closely. It is about the impact of this acquisition on the SaaS providers. While thinking about the impact of any adverse move by Oracle on SaaS [...]
Northscale Pushes Open Source Membase Into The Crowded NoSQL Market
Northscale, the company founded by leaders of open source Memcached project, yesterday announced that they have joined with Zynga and NHN (a Korea based game and search services company) to establish the open source Membase project (See our previous coverage of Northscale here). Membase is an elastic NoSQL database that is fully compatible with Memcached. This [...]
