Terracotta would love to stick its knee in the groin of the relational database and figures its new BigMemory Go, a free version of its BigMemory in-memory caching widgetry for Java apps, will put it in easy striking distance by expanding its installed base.
It’s counting on users not being content with the single-node 32GB production instance Go offers even if they can put it on as many servers as they want.
The company, now an independent subsidiary of Software AG, calculates that Go users will upgrade within a year to the full, more scalable BigMemory that goes for $500 a gigabyte. And the more mainstream BigMemory goes to speed application performance the less competitive disk-backed databases will be.