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Re:Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make ... by soldermont00 on Thursday November 24, 2011 @05:25PM (#3275571)
No, they make an actual NoSQL database now: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/...
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Re:Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make ... by mhd on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:45PM (#3275824)
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…
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Re:Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make ... by slardat01 on Friday November 25, 2011 @04:28AM (#3276670)
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.
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Re:Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make ... by andrewflnr on Friday November 25, 2011 @12:35AM (#3276318)
Is it significantly different from Riak? They seem very, very similar based on my superficial knowledge.
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