Episode 68: Interview with Josh Berkus – Part 2

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