AerospikeDB now Open Source(gigaom.com)
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AerospikeDB now Open Source
https://gigaom.com/2014/06/24/aerospike-raises-20m-open-sources-its-in-memory-nosql-database/
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As Brian's partner in crime as co-founder and an old time DB hand, I do believe modern distributed databases have to not just support scale and performance but also attempt to provide the best ACID consistency possible in the presence of failures. Hopefully, database systems programmers will be interested in learning the details of how Aerospike works, benefit from this, and even help improve it.
As stated in the article, I did always have the strategy of open sourcing. I wanted to make sure the code base didn't lose focus, and we solved some of the hard problems in databases before we let it loose - we focused on customers and have been adding new features ( upcoming strong CP support as well as AP, security models, clients & connectors ).
Besides simply trying the database, I'd be interested in comments, either here or directly, on any question relating to the journey.