by Angela Guess
A new article reports, “Oracle released its recently announced Oracle NoSQL database Monday and it set a first-quarter 2012 launch date for its planned Big Data Appliance. It’s an aggressive step forward just three weeks after the products were announced at Oracle Open World in San Francisco. But it comes as Oracle rivals are also embracing emerging platforms for large-scale data processing. Microsoft announced October 12 that it, too, would release software based on the open source Apache Hadoop project. IBM and EMC each released Hadoop-based software earlier this year, and Oracle’s planned Big Data Appliance will include both the NoSQL database and an Oracle distribution of Apache Hadoop.”
The article adds, “Oracle’s NoSQL Database is available for download on the Oracle Technology Network. The software is based in part on the open source BerkeleyDB database, which Oracle acquired along with Sleepycat Software in 2006. But where BerkeleyDB is a single-node database, Oracle NoSQL includes a new programming interface and support for partitioning for highly distributed processing. ‘We’ve tested the database across multiple hundreds of nodes and it scales very well,’ said Marie-Anne Neimat, VP of database development at Oracle. ‘It’s targeted at customers who need the scalability to do things like track Web clickthroughs, smart-meter data, network management, or personalization.’”
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