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Interview with Josh Berkus – Part 2

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In this episode we discussed:

  • MongoDB
  • Standardization of NoSQL databases
  • Portability between non-relational databases
  • CouchDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • AGPL license
  • PostgreSQL license (like the BSD license)
  • MySQL is GPLv2
  • Drizzle has rewritten their MySQL driver so it’s not GPL
  • Oracle’s behavior toward products they own that compete
  • InnoDB MySQL engine
  • Microsoft SQL – The price hike and bug report that drove Josh to PostgreSQL
  • Customer expectations vs Intended functionality
  • GreenPlum
  • Alexa
  • Implementing the minimum feature set and getting feedback.
  • Transactional DDL – All operations are transactional except create database.
  • Database Migrations – PostgreSQL can do migrations with no downtime.
  • Memcached
  • Redis
  • Solr
  • ElasticSearch
  • Foreign Data Wrappers – a driver for external data sources that can then be managed through PostgreSQL
  • Lucene
  • Hadoop HBase
  • Cassandra
  • Project Voldemort
  • HyperTable
  • Riak
  • Amazon Cap Theorem Papers
  • VoltDB
    • ...more
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