Slightly off topic but the general hacker community seems to somehow missed it-- the creators of CouchDB formed a company and merged with the creators of Memcached, and the new company is called Couchbase. This is the best NoSQL database going. Memcached built in, CouchDB views, scalable (really actually scalable, not mongodb "scalable") etc.
I've long thought the hacker culture ignored databases and just picked something because it was popular (eg mysql) even though there were superior (objectively superior- we are engineers after all) solutions out there.
Erlang is one of those languages that is objectively superior -- I've yet to meet another language that does concurrency right-- yet many hackers just ignore it because it's not got java's syntax. Which is silly.
Don't make the same mistake with next generation databases.
I've long thought the hacker culture ignored databases and just picked something because it was popular (eg mysql) even though there were superior (objectively superior- we are engineers after all) solutions out there.
Erlang is one of those languages that is objectively superior -- I've yet to meet another language that does concurrency right-- yet many hackers just ignore it because it's not got java's syntax. Which is silly.
Don't make the same mistake with next generation databases.