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NewsReader42
And yet will be be open source ?

Probably NOT

Will it have the community and driver support of other DB systems?

Probably NOT

Zizzle
Why leave out PostgreSQL?
mutex007
we picked the most popular out of the RDBMS, NOSQL and newSQL world. In the future we will compare against more systems. We are actually in the process of releasing benchmarks as well for each of the above systems. We will be sure to include postgres
techprotocol
This is like comparing apples and oranges. What technique do you use for benchmarking?
tracker1
Something like TodoMVC for backends would be nice... in essence, you create a backend for a TodoMVC front end, each using the same web-server platform and language and TodoMVC front end. The difference being the back end SQL server, with as much processing on the server, if it supports procedures, as possible. Maybe extending the example for a location, and a local date/time.

Using Node.js, and Angular for the server/front end, it would be easy enough to swap out the "todo-mvc-server-data" module... as long as each supported the same interface(s), it could be a good test...

Setup the same hardware for each backend, and then run performance tests against a node cluster for the front end. It would by no means be comprehensive, but would be a nice comparison point (like TodoMVC itself).

unmole
> We will be sure to include postgres

Yeah, right. Come back when you do.

excitom
Is it just me? I'm suspicious of companies that do not put any identifying information on their site, like who they are and where they are located.
silvertonia
This is an advertisement, not an article.
Shish2k
> More features than the most featureless of the competition

Well, yes. But how does it compare to something like postgres or elasticsearch? :P

[ED> replace "better / worse" with "has / does not have features", as that's less subjective]

mutex007
elastic search will score no more than 7 points on our feature table. We are very aware of their product and currently running benchmarks on it.

If you are interested, i can personally email you the results

techprotocol
Not sure how one can achieve ACID on distributed system without limiting scalability. In addition, these system are limited by the CAP theorem. Therefore it is bound to have problems, would be interesting to read the high level architecture.
grageth
I love feature lists where you compare EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND NOTHING YOU DON'T. Cross Platform? Um no... Windows only... I thought I had to be wrong and looked again. Nope, can't find a *nix version anywhere.