Oracle and NoSQL - Sleepycat wakes up? [updated]

Oracle has been hinting at taking BerkelyDB aka Sleepycat into the NoSQL world for quite a few months.

Is Berkeley DB a NoSQL solution?

Using Oracle Berkeley DB as a NoSQL Data Store

Today they made a formal announcement...along with many others. Not a lot has changed so far - just the name.

Lots has changed!  It's an entire layer on top of the old JE edition that really makes it practically shared nothing and highly scalable.  No JSON/REST, No C interface either...but it's a start.

Oracles features below with my [comments] afterwards.

• Key-value pair data structure, keys are composed of Major & Minor keys [Example given was Customer ID as Major key while First Name and Last Name would be Minor keys]

• Easy-to-use Java API with simple Put, Delete and Get operations [No C or JSON/REST yet]
• Scalability
  
  • Automatic, hash-function based data partitioning and distribution [seems well though out]
  • Intelligent NoSQL Database driver is topology and latency aware, providing optimal data access [ immature - not Data Center or rack aware - can do stupid things easily right now.]
• Predictable behavior
  
  • ACID transactions, configurable globally and per operation
  • Bounded latency via B-tree caching and efficient query dispatching [I guess it's completely bounded since no joins]
• High Availability
  
  • No single point of failure
  • Built-in, configurable replication
  • Resilient to single and multi-storage node failure
  • Disaster recovery via data center replication
• Easy Administration
  
  • Web console or command line interface
  • System and node management
  • Shows system topology, status, current load, trailing and average latency, events and alerts