Stealth Startup Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support
December 11th, 2009 admin
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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