CouchOne, Membase Merge, Form NoSQL Powerhouse 46
Julie188 writes "CouchOne and Membase, two of the most popular noSQL projects, have merged in an attempt to become an open source database powerhouse. Even the company's new name is merged: Couchbase. The founders of the new Couchbase say they will offer the ability to scale from the largest data center and distributed cloud environments all the way down to smartphones and other mobile devices. As is the standard disclaimer during merger announcements, the leaders also promise to continue their support for their open source, community versions of their programs."
Re:Fail ACID, fail in life... (Score:5, Informative)
NoSQL doesn't mean unreliable, and SQL doesn't mean ACID-compliant.
CouchDB (one of the products mentioned in this article) goes to some lengths to preserve data integrity. It doesn't do delayed commits the way, say, MongoDB does, and it uses an append-only file format that means each document is written to disk in a completely ACID-compliant way.
MySQL didn't have any transactional capability in early versions, and even today is quite happy to corrupt tables beyond repair if the power goes out during a write operation.
Re:Fail ACID, fail in life... (Score:4, Informative)
Amazon (Dynamo)
Twitter, Digg (Cassandra)
Yahoo (HBase)
Netflix (SimpleDB)
BBC (CouchDB)
The Lotus Domino database is also NoSQL and is used in many enterprises.
Re:cool! (Score:4, Informative)