Another competitor to the exciting CouchDB project has emerged – and this time it’s in pure Ruby, not god damn Erlang, so it’s very interesting to me. Check it out here.
By the way, another project I’ve talked about before, ThingFish, has been through countless revisions and code growth – there’s not a day that goes by when I’m not treated to 50 or so changed files in response to my svn up. But the focus of the project seems to have changed from being a document-centric database to being some kind of network file store. None of it works, as far as I can tell, and I have no idea what they are doing.. Thingfish developers: what on earth is your project for?
Anyway, exciting times for this class of database, which I strongly believe is the future of large-scale web apps.