Maybe I'm not too informed but who is this? Looking at his linked in he seems to be a sales person/business development person just moving to a new position.<p>Is he well known in the big data community and/or built any of the big data tools widely used? Just curious for more background than what sounds like a pretty common occurrence at startups.
I'm very curious how far OrientDB has made it. I remember using them ~1.5 years ago, and it was plagued with bugs, and data loss issues. Maybe they'll be able to take some of the knowledge from the MongoDB folks, and use it to bolster their storage engine.
<i>Leaving one of the most successful startups in history isn’t easy.</i><p>Interesting sentence. Isn't it a bit early to say that MongoDB is "successful"?
It must be an interesting time for OrientDB.<p>Aurlieus, the creators of TitanDB was recently acquired by DataStax and promptly dropped support of TitanDB[1]. That's left a bit hole in the market for a genuinely scalable, open source GraphDB (Neo4J has an open source "community edition").<p>OrientDB is one of the prime candidates left. I'd note that Wikidata recently chose BlazeGraph for their query interface[1], which is an option I'd never heard of before.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.datastax.com/2015/02/datastax-acquires-aurelius-the-experts-behind-titandb" rel="nofollow">http://www.datastax.com/2015/02/datastax-acquires-aurelius-t...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-March/000740.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-Mar...</a>
Interesting, OrientDB seems to have really grown lately. It is advertising itself in the same way I talk about my own javascript based opensource database project (<a href="http://github.com/amark/gun" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/amark/gun</a>), multi-model, relational/document, graph, multi-master, etc. Obviously Orient is much more mature than mine (not production ready or stable). Maybe I should give OrientDB a try, and see if it stands up to its claims!<p>Great work, keep it up.