Stealth Startup Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support

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Relaxed , a stealth startup centered around Apache CouchDB has raised $2 million from Redpoint Ventures according to an SEC filing which was confirmed by CEO Damien Katz . Three original authors of Apache CouchDB–Damien Katz, J. Chris Anderson , and Jan Lehnardt –are listed as Executive Officers of the company. For those who are unfamiliar, CouchDB is a free open source indexable document database server which uses Javascript as a query language. CouchDB is designed for the reporting and storage of large amounts of semi-structured, document oriented data, unlike SQL databases which store and report on very structured and correlated data. CouchDB is part of the rapidly growing NoSQL movement , which is schema-free and focuses on adding horizontal scalability to databases. Major companies already use NoSQL database systems including Amazon’s Dynamo , Facebook&#…


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CouchDB (CouchDB)  : @david_a_black bring on the blank :)..
Updated : 2010-07-31T13:48:30Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
scalarium (Peritor Scalarium)  : We're moving towards the end of the move. Pre-warming our CouchDB views before we bring the site back up...
Updated : 2010-07-31T13:47:30Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
david_a_black (David A. Black)  : @roidrage No; the future is "I can't believe we thought CouchDB was any good, now that we've seen !" :-)..
Updated : 2010-07-31T13:31:40Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
roidrage (Mathias Meyer)  : Replicating CouchDB data from a 0.10 instance to a 1.0 instance and further down to another 1.0 instance. It's the future...
Updated : 2010-07-31T13:30:40Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
CouchDB (CouchDB)  : @StefanVaillant Sorry to hear that :( -- Maybe try CouchDBX: http://bit.ly/cQHmvR or Homebrew instead of MacPorts...
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