Yet Another Validation for NoSQL World
While I like to look at the NoSQL world more from the technical perspective, I find it quite interesting to note that a couple of NoSQL projects are getting financed lately or are starting to look into monetizing their products. This is a somehow another (probably still a bit controversial) validation of NoSQL market and its future.
So, which are these companies or projects?
10gen: MongoDB
10gen, the company behind MongoDB, has already raised 2 rounds of funding amounting for a total of $4.9m. They have also launched in beta the ☞ MongoHQ which is MongoDB-as-a-Service or MongoDB in the cloud.
Update: thanks to the MyNoSQL readers I have found that MongoHQ is not a 10gen product so I added it to the list below.
Neo Technology: neo4j
Neo Technology, the company developing neo4j (you can watch a recent interview with Emil Eifrem about neo4j) has raised in October $2.5m after an initial seed funding from the Swedish government.
Relaxed: CouchDB
Yesterday, TechCrunch has announced that Relaxed, a company having on-board 3 of the CouchDB authors, has raised $2m funding. The money will be used for providing CouchDB support.
Basho Technologies: riak
Basho Technologies has introduced a “pay what you can” enterprise offering for their riak (decentralized key-value store, map/reduce engine, HTTP/JSON query interface) product under the name ☞ Riak EnterpriseDS.
According to Earl Galleher, Basho’s CEO:
When we say pay-what-you-can, we mean it. With this program we hope more interesting Internet startups will get to market with world class infrastructure that allows them to scale cost-effectively.
Last, but not least, I think it is very interesting to note that all these systems are open source, some of them operating under dual licensing.
Update: I just realized I have left out a couple of NoSQL businesses, so here they are. Thanks to the MyNoSQL readers for pointing them out.
commonthread: MongoHQ
MongoHQ is a hosted MongoDB offering from commonthread, so we can probably refer to it as MongoDB-as-a-Service or MongoDB in the cloud. The service is still in beta and I don’t think they have announced yet the pricing.
Cloudant: CouchDB
Cloudant, a Y Combinator startup, is offering CouchDB-as-a-service. Currently the service includes “unlimited everything up to 1GB of storage” and auto-sharding (afaik a missing feature from CouchDB).
Resources
- ☞ MongoDB
- ☞ Open source database company 10gen raises $3.4M
- ☞ neo4j
- ☞ Neo Technology Commercializes Next Generation Graph Based Database
- ☞ CouchDB
- ☞ Stealth Startup Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support
- ☞ riak
- ☞ Basho Technologies Launches Riak EnterpriseDS For Startups Program
- ☞ MongoHQ
- ☞ Cloudant
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