Continuent.org, a new open source portal and community dedicated to high availability and scalability services for databases and other closely related technologies, has officially launched .

Continuent.org was launched to host a number of projects related to providing an open source solution for high availability
and scalability that is fully database and application server agnostic. Its mission is to provide a deep framework for solving the issues of high availability and scalability often associated with databases and that can be used in a
heterogeneous database environment or tailored to a specific database.

Continuent.org is currently backed by a team of eight full-time engineers who have a mission to create industrial quality open source technology and support its community.

Among the newest open source additions at the site will be a C++ API and an ODBC driver for non-Java clients, as well as a powerful Eclipse plug-in for the management console. The core technology is also greatly improved with a complete redesign of transaction scheduling for a better write parallelism, along with an upcoming rewrite of documentation.

The Continuent portal is structured to offer top support infrastructure to the community. Continuent.org projects use a newer version of GForge and integrate JIRA for issue tracking. With JIRA, a more comfortable and flexible system, developers can watch the progress of issues, vote on their resolution and view the project roadmap.