On Oracle NoSQL Database –Interview with Dave Segleau. | ODBMS Industry Watch

Excerpt from an extensive Oracle NoSQL Database Director of Product Management interview; also see Oracle switches Berkeley DB license (InfoWorld)

"Q4. What is the implication of having Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition as the core engine for the Oracle NoSQL database?
Dave Segleau: It means that Oracle NoSQL Database provides a mission-critical proven database technology at the heart of the implementation. Many of the other NoSQL databases use relatively new implementations for data storage and replication. Databases in general, and especially distributed parallel databases, are hard to implement well and achieve high product quality and reliability. So we see the use of Oracle Berkeley DB, a pervasively deployed database engine for 1000′s of mission-critical applications, as a big differentiation. Plus, many of the early NoSQL technologies are based on Oracle Berkeley DB, for example LinkedIn’s Voldemort, Amazon’s Dynamo and other popular commercial and enterprise social media products like Yammer."

On Oracle NoSQL Database –Interview with Dave Segleau. | ODBMS Industry Watch