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CouchOne, Membase Merge, Form NoSQL Powerhouse
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."
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.
Be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.
Amazon (Dynamo)
Twitter, Digg (Cassandra)
Yahoo (HBase)
Netflix (SimpleDB)
BBC (CouchDB)
The Lotus Domino database is also NoSQL and is used in many enterprises.
The initial post is misleading. The "two of the most popular noSQL projects" are in fact not CouchOne and Membase as it suggests. The fame should rather be attributed to CouchDB and Memcached, of which it would be rather hard indeed not to have heard. CouchDB has been developed by Damien Katz, the founder and CEO of CouchOne (created in order to commercialize the technology). Membase in turn is a NoSQL solution based upon Memcached (protocol-compatible).