CouchDB NoSQL database available for download

The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, announced on Wednesday. Work on CouchDB began in 2005 at IBM as a Lotus Notes project to help with off-line replication of data. It became an independent open-source project in 2008. Couchio offers commercial support …