IBM buys NoSQL cloud database startup Cloudant
February 24, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
IBM is at it again in the cloud computing space, this time acquiring Boston-based cloud database startup Cloudant. The company, which runs a distributed cloud document store based on the Apache CouchDB technology, was founded in 2008 and has raised about $16 million in venture capital to date.
Cloudant has made a name for itself handling distributed database and even big data processing for a number of large users. Recently, the company announced a new sync feature for Android and iOS apps that aren’t always connected, so consumers can still use apps offline and then sync data when they’re online again…
The acquisition is potentially smart for IBM, although also a bit confusing when it comes to IBM’s overall cloud strategy. IBM has been working to make MongoDB a standard for next-generation web and mobile applications, but Cloudant’s technology is based on the alternative NoSQL framework, CouchDB…
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