db4object has got a production-ready release of db4o 6.0 that it says is 10 times faster and 90% leaner on memory consumption than version 5.

The new open source object database rev also supports a new server-side cursor technology for deterministic response times when querying multi-user client/server environments, which means more Java and .NET developers can take advantage of its object storage capabilities

Solid Picks Up $5.3m Check
Solid Information Technology, the originally Finish database house that jumped in to promise a high-end enterprise storage engine for MySQL when Oracle bought Innobase, has gotten $5.3 million in B round funding from existing investors Apax Partners and CapMan.

The money is earmarked for pushing its new product. In the last two years it has expanded into China and Central Europe and claims to have grown 30%. The firm was recapitalized about two years ago.

Solid's transactionally minded MySQL widgetry, solidDB for MySQL, has just hit general availability. The company is preening over a benchmark that rates solidDB as double the performance of MySQL running with InnoDB, which Solid speculates Oracle bought to give it insight into MySQL customer base. It notes that InnoDB doesn't show up in Oracle's published price list and is only available through MySQL bundling.

The benchmark results are supposed to prove that Solid is more enterprise-ready than InnoDB.