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IBM to make Java database open source

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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.


Written by cote

July 30, 2004 at 6:25 pm

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  1. Isn’t that cloud /scape/ ?

    Anonymous

    July 31, 2004 at 2:42 pm

  2. Sure ’nuff. I’m often accused of “skimming” things, and I ‘spose my mind skimmed Cloudscape into Cloudspace.

    Cote'

    July 31, 2004 at 4:26 pm


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