IBM to make Java database open source
July 30, 2004
CNET reports that IBM is going to open source Cloudscape, a
Java, embedded DB. I have a certain loathing for databases, but over the years I’ve realized that it’s not so much the DB part that I don’t like, but that they’re usually separate systems.
Thus, embedded DB’s that are pure Java — like Cloudscape, McKoi, and Hypersonic — seem pretty attractive. Hopefully, since Cloudscape was once commercial (?), it’s extremely robust, scales, and all that stuff.
Isn’t that cloud /scape/ ?
Sure ’nuff. I’m often accused of “skimming” things, and I ’spose my mind skimmed Cloudscape into Cloudspace.