ZFS disciples form one true open source database by Lucy Carey.
From the post:
The acronym ‘ZFS’ may no longer actually stand for anything, but the “world’s most advanced file sharing system” is in no way redundant. Yesterday, it emerged that corporate advocates of the Sun Microsystems file system and logical volume manager have joined together to offer a new “truly open source” incarnation of the file system, called, fittingly enough, OpenZFS.
Along with the the launch of the open-zfs.org website – which is incidentally, a domain owned by ZFS co-founder Matt Ahrens- the group of ZFS lovers, which includes developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, as well as an assortment of other parties who are building products on top of OpenZFS, have set out a clear set of objectives.
Speaking of scaling, Wikipedia reports:
A ZFS file system can store up to 256 quadrillion Zebibytes (ZiB).
Just in case anyone mentions scalable storage as an issue. 😉