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NoSQL provider Couchbase (news, site) has announced the release of two new products today -- Couchbase 2.0, which consolidates Membase’s key-value repository with CouchDB’s document repository and Unstructured Query Language (UnQL), a query language.

Organizations think open source software (OSS) is bad. You know, bad meaning good. Do people still say bad? Never mind. A Gartner (news, site) study has found that enterprises are increasingly including open source software in their technology portfolio. Propelled by rapid innovation, lower adoption and implementation cost and features rivaling commercial options, OSS is becoming pervasive.

They ran in same technical circles -- NoSQL cool kids. Membase had an open CTO search; CouchOne (news, site) had an open CEO search. It was a match made in data management heaven. Membase and CouchOne have announced their merger to form Couchbase. What does this merger mean for users and the noSQL movement?

As year moves toward a conclusion, it is time for a moment of reflection. Don’t worry this won’t involve any ghosts waking you from your eggnog fueled holiday slumber. We simply look back at the top five events of 2010 that were most meaningful in open source and will continue to influence the market in 2011 and beyond.

CouchOne (news, site), provider of support, development toolkits, training and hosting for open source document database Apache CouchDB, is trying to change the perception that CouchDB is just another NoSQL platform. In fact, if CouchOne has its way, CouchDB will no longer be associated with NoSQL at all.