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Episode 68: Interview with Josh Berkus – Part 2
August 01, 2011
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Episode 68: 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