[jnordwick]

I know there are other proprietary dbs out there. I was speaking of FOSS/open databases any cant they come even without an order of magnitude of commercial offerings. Quasar would be included in that commercial group.

I'm only slightly familiar with Quasar, but I believe it is just a key-value store with document characterists, not a general database. The comparisons on their website are mostly to other KV stores and document systems.