Balancing Oracle and open source at Orbitz
Posted: September 22, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
IT is a complicated thing in large companies like Orbitz (s oww), where open source doesn't mean free and where NoSQL really means not only SQL. When Orbitz decided to move major portions of its infrastructure off Oracle's (s orcl) in-memory Coherence database and onto the NoSQL Couchbase Server, it drastically increased its performance while savings millions of dollars a year.
