Cloudant Merges BigCouch Database into Open Source Apache CouchDB
July 22, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
In a move that promises to advance the development of open source Big Data and distributed storage technology, database-as-a-service (DaaS) provider Cloudant has announced the merging of its distributed database platform into the Apache Foundation’s CouchDB project. The decision is a good example of convergence within the open source world, and could have an especially important impact on open source clustering technology.
Cloudant has based its distributed database platform, called BigCouch, on Apache CouchDB since the company began developing the product in 2008. Inspired by their experience working on data storage at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the Cloudant co-founders focused on engineering a service that delivers efficient fault tolerance and horizontal clustering…
Cloudant has made BigCouch available for production use as an independent platform for the past four years, but July 22 announced that the merging of key components of the software back into the core Apache CouchDB codebase. The integration means "users can now experience significant improvements in compaction and replication speed, as well as boosts in high-concurrency access performance," according to Cloudant…
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