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Fri, 09/30/2011 - 09:47
jimflip
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Hi I'm interested in using couchbase, but I really don't get the licensing for the community versions.

So simple question is; do I need a license/subscription to deploy a multi-node cluster with the community edition?

I understand the benefits of enterprise edition, and I see that as a good thing for us in time, but for now we want something license free.

Thanks,
Jim.

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Sat, 10/01/2011 - 18:46
ingenthr
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The simple answer is you do not need a license/subscription with community edition for multiple nodes. That said, if you're running in production, you should probably consider enterprise, and the terms with that also allow limited use of a multi-node cluster. See the license info in the download or start a conversation with sales@couchbase.com to get authoritative specifics on what you'd be able to do with enterprise.

See the summary here:
http://www.couchbase.com/downloads

You may wish to click through on the "Which Edition is Right For Me" in the center of the page there.

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Sun, 10/02/2011 - 02:25
jimflip
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Thanks, for confirming this.

My only concern now is that we have designed to scale out, using fairly small VPS, each having 1GB ram. I'm not sure if couchbase would be suitable in this situation is it appears to require a lot of ram on each node (i.e. 4GB per node), another problem with using small VPS would mean more licences/cost.

Cheers,
Jim.

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Sun, 10/02/2011 - 12:03
ingenthr
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It's definitely suitable in a situation where you scale wide, and a great many deployments do that already. If you're looking for flexibility in deployment, I'd encourage you to have a conversation with sales. There may be some other options they can come up with to grow along with your needs.

Also, note that there is the Rightscale deployment possibility. You may want to look at the pricing model there, available through a Rightscale account. See http://support.rightscale.com/27-Partners/Couchbase for details.

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