Now that our 2.0 blackbirds release is out we're hearing a lot of great questions about the core technology and which problems we're addressing. Rather than keep answering these separately here's a clip show . Between the material on this blog, some talks & articles and a few comments to fill in the gaps I hope to give you a good sense of what we've done with this release and where we're headed.

Let's start with the basics. On October 16 we did a

With NuoDB 2.0 the support for stored procedures gains a new exciting feature: the capability of running a procedure written in the Java language. Stored procedures written in SQL still achieve the maximum performance boost, but Java stored procedures have on their side a richer programming language, a huge number of third-party libraries and an almost effortless migration path from client-side code to server-side extension.

In order to create a stored procedure backed by Java code, the developer must wrap the code in a static method having a suitable signature, compile it and

Today we released NuoDB 2.0, and if you've been following along you've seen a lot of discussion around automation. In our 1.2 release we provided a preview of where we're going, and with 2.0 we're building on those features to support starting and managing databases across multiple regions. We've also started collecting domain-wide statistics into a NuoDB database that you can use to monitor what's happening

With today's release these new automation features are available, but not enabled by default. To turn them on