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

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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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CouchDB (CouchDB) : @StefanVaillant Sorry to hear that :( -- Maybe try CouchDBX: http://bit.ly/cQHmvR or Homebrew instead of MacPorts... Updated : 2010-07-31T13:12:45Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Why CouchDB is a sexy beast for building Twitter apps
[Software]Mark Headd, Creator of TweetMy311, explains why you should take a look at CouchDB if you're building an application that uses the Twitter API.
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An Introduction to CouchDB
[Software]CouchDB is one of the most popular and mature document-oriented databases.
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Mozilla Labs' Raindrop
[Software]Mozilla Messaging has just unveiled a Mozilla Labs project, Raindrop, an experiment with Open Messaging on the Open Web. Raindrop uses couchdb as a storage engine and to serve the HTML/CSS/Javascript application itself, while the back-end is primarily written in Python.
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Relaxed Ubuntu 9.10: CouchDB to be Integrated
[Linux/Unix]Even though Ubuntu 9.10 is officially completed, developers managed to slip in the new beta version of Apache CouchDB that stores addresses, notes and bookmarks.
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Cooperation During the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
[Linux/Unix]At the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit much cross-desktop work has been done. The days we have are being used for the Cross Desktop Tracks and during the talks there are KDE and Gnome developers mingling everywhere. Cross desktop sessions included bug triage, metadata sharing, instant messaging and sharing personal data cross-desktop with CouchDB.



























