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mhd
on Nov 24, 2011
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Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable t...
Isn't that basically Berkeley DB?
soldermont00
on Nov 24, 2011
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No, they make an actual NoSQL database now:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/...
mhd
on Nov 25, 2011
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From the data sheet: "Oracle NoSQL Database is built upon the proven Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition high-availability storage engine". So it's BDBEE…
slardat01
on Nov 25, 2011
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That is for the data store itself, and doesn't mean that the database is NoSQL or not. MemcacheDB for example is a NoSQL database that uses BerkeleyDB as a datastore. No different than you'd use InnoDB or RethinkDB with MySQL.
andrewflnr
on Nov 25, 2011
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Is it significantly different from Riak? They seem very, very similar based on my superficial knowledge.
william42
on Nov 25, 2011
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It blows my mind that something called Berkeley DB is owned by Oracle. You'd think it'd be a UC Berkeley project.
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