CouchDB founder joined Salesforce.com to engage in a very "cool" infrastructure

This article is from my article translated on InfoQ Chinese site. The original Article address is www. infoq. comcnnews201401couchdb-creator-joins-salesforce recently, the founder of NoSQL database CouchDB announced that it will join Salesforce.com, engaged in a very cool project related to the vendor's cloud infrastructure. DamienKatz at Bo

This article is from my article on InfoQ Chinese site translation, the original address is: http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2014/01/couchdb-creator-joins-salesforce recently, NoSQL database CouchDB founder announced will join Salesforce.com, engaged in a very cool project related to the vendor's cloud infrastructure. Damien Katz at Bo

This article is from the article I translated on InfoQ Chinese site, the original address is: http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2014/01/couchdb-creator-joins-salesforce

Recently, the founder of NoSQL database CouchDB announced that it would join Salesforce.com to engage in a very "cool" project related to the vendor's cloud infrastructure.

Damien Katz announced on his blog that "from January 2014 onwards, he will continue his career at Salesforce.com and work closely with Pat Helland to engage in a project that will consolidate his infrastructure, at the same time, it will improve performance, reliability and predictability, and significantly reduce production costs ". This is a very "cool" project, and I do not know whether to disclose details of the project. However, if this project can be completed successfully, it will have a very positive impact on us.

At the same time, a spokesman for Salesforce.com declined to provide details about the project mentioned by Katz.

Although Salesforce.com has been using Oracle databases for a long time and serves as the underlying infrastructure of its platform, it has recently signed a long-term contract with this competitor. However, salesforce.com has also stepped up on open-source solutions, such as providing development resources to HBase and acquiring Heroku, while the latter uses PostgreSQL.

Some observers believe that Salesforce.com does not need Oracle.

"Obviously Oracle is not suitable for the database architecture of Salesforce.com, and Salesforce.com seldom uses the relational features of Oracle," Curt Monash, an analyst from Monash Research, said in his email. Compared with Oracle's first use of Salesforce.com more than 10 years ago, we now have more options in terms of security and reliability ".

Katz mentioned that he will work with Salesforce.com architect Pat Helland, which provides some clues about the features of this project. At the Ricon West conference in December, Helland talked about Keystone, which will unify and simplify various forms of storage. According to the content of the Conference, we plan to build storage based on this to achieve rapid failure recovery.

Although the cost of consumption-level SSD technology accounts for only a small part of the enterprise-level SSD market, the cost of consumption-level SSD is very high. By designing the Keystone architecture to store unchanged data and using the error detection feature provided by the software, we can confidently say that we can detect errors, you can also obtain the required storage data from other locations.