Redwood Shores' Oracle has had a very big month so far, and the software giant continues to keep the news flowing. Today, the company announced that its NoSQL Database is now available for download from the Oracle Technology Network.

Oracle’s press release says that the database “enables customers to easily manage massive amounts of data with dynamic schemas such as web log data, sensor and smart meter data, data gathered for personalization, and data maintained by social networks.”

The folks at IDG News write that Oracle released this new database in response to the deluge of databases released in the past few years that are not built around SQL.

From IDG News: NoSQL can also be used to handle non-essential data storage duties, taking some of the burden off of more structured relational databases. Monash pointed to a recent database failure experienced by JPMorgan Chase. Because the company stored both time-sensitive financial transactional data and non-essential user information on the same database, financial transactions were slowed by an influx of large number of users checking into the Web site after a crash. Keeping the user data on a separate, possibly NoSQL, database for the user data might have eliminated this problem.

The database is based the Java version of Berkeley DB, an open source database developed by the University of California Berkeley that is widely used in embedded systems. The database uses a simple key-value data model, meaning that a program can fetch the needed piece of data by providing the appropriate key, or a numeric identifier.

Additionally, Oracle also stated that its new system dubbed the Oracle Big Data Appliance, will be ready to deliver early next year.

From Information Week: The Big Data Appliance itself will be a cross between the Exadata Database Machine and the Exadata Storage Expansion Rack, mixing x86 processing power with high-capacity disk storage. A full rack will provide up to 432 terabytes of storage.