More or less exactly two months after the second developer preview, I'm delighted to announce that we've shipped the first (and hopefully only) beta release of the Couchbase Spark Connector. It is a major step forward, bringing Spark 1.4 support...

We are excited today to be releasing the first beta of the 1.0.0 version (tagged as 0.9.0) of our official Go SDK. This release includes support for Couchbase 4.0 server features such as N1QL and Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), implements a...

Anyone planning to be at the NoSQL Now Conference in San Jose on Aug 18th this year? I will be there talking about role of SQL in NoSQL databases and How N1QL is opening up new powerful ways to interact...

Note from March 2017: detailed information on the event bus and metrics collection can be found in the official documentation. Some information in this article may be outdated. While europe was melting away in the summer heat, Simon (from Paris),...

A few months back, I was talking with some of the users of our Node.js client and heard a fairly standard opinion that people were looking for some method to simplify their life further when using Couchbase from Node.js.  One...

Is your business a chameleon, or is it set to go the way of the dinosaur? As the economic recovery continues and the competitive, dog-eat-dog nature of industry intensifies as a direct result, an increasing number of organisations are finding...

2015 has officially been dubbed “the year of the connected device”. The “internet of things” has been replaced by the “internet of everything” filled with endless possibilities. Today, some 20 billion devices are connected to the internet – everything from...

When you think of banks and financial institutions, agility isn’t usually the first word that springs to mind. More oil tanker than speedboat when it comes to making sudden changes in direction, it’s no surprise that so many banks have...

In 1995, Don Tapscott coined the term “digital economy” in his book of the same name, to describe a new category of business enabled by the Internet.  Fast-forward 20 years and a lot has changed. We used to think the...