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 [...]
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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Northscale Wants To Help Extend Platform Services
This is the 4th post in the PaaS is the future of Cloud Services Series. In this post, I am going to talk about the importance of extensibility of any platform and highlight one of the vendors in the space, Northscale. Yesterday Northscale announced a Series B funding worth $10M led by Mayfield Fund. Series A [...]
