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Announcing new version of Couchbase Plug-in for ElasticSearch – 2.0
Announcing new version of Couchbase Plug-in for ElasticSearch – 2.0

Learn the major update to Couchbase Plug-in which is now updated to work with the latest release of Couchbase Server 3.0 and Elasticsearch 1.3.0

Announcing Couchbase Server 3.0.1
Announcing Couchbase Server 3.0.1

We’re happy to announce the release of Couchbase Server 3.0.1. As many of you may know, the 3.0 was a major and biggest release for us which introduced several exciting features across the product. You can read more about Couchbase...

Distributed Databases and Replication Design
Distributed Databases and Replication Design

One of the most important elements of distributed database architecture is replication. In fact, it defines the database architecture. It determines whether or not the data is consistent / available. Master / Slave Writes are executed on master nodes, replicated...

Couchbase at Sky TV
Couchbase at Sky TV

At October's Couchbase London meet-up Julien Gagnet, a developer from BSkyB, spoke about how they've been using Couchbase for their SkyiD user profile service. Sky is Europe's largest pay TV provider, with more than 11 million customers in the UK...

Interview with the Ghost of MongoDB Scalability
Interview with the Ghost of MongoDB Scalability

Are you looking for my interview with the Ghost of MongoDB Scalability? Well, I moved it to my personal blog because it is, after all, a fictitious interview ;) Read the interview here. Enjoy!

Another membase milestone reached – beta 2 ships!
Another membase milestone reached – beta 2 ships!

Another membase milestone was reached today – beta 2 was released and is available for download! Several cool features have been added, including support for datasets whose size exceeds the size of aggregate cluster main memory (i.e. supporting disk >...

Membase Beta Refreshed…Ubuntu Support and More!
Membase Beta Refreshed…Ubuntu Support and More!

Greetings all! As the Membase beta program manager, I want to let everyone know that we’ve put out an update to the Membase beta. The most notable addition is official support for Ubuntu, version 9.04 and higher. There are also...

membase at OSCON 2010
membase at OSCON 2010

Last week was very busy. We at NorthScale had the release of beta 2 of membase followed by membase's presence at a second conference. Though we'd already launched the project, OSCON was a great platform to get into further detail...

Membase and RightScale: Elastic Data Scaling in the Cloud
Membase and RightScale: Elastic Data Scaling in the Cloud

I am very excited that Membase ServerTemplates are now up and running on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. RightScale customers now have easy access to a leading NoSQL database for the first time, and Membase customers can rest easy that...

Membase and Open Source 4.0
Membase and Open Source 4.0

I read Matt Aslett's (The 451) post on the golden age of open source with interest. In it he describes that we've arrived at the fourth stage of open source, which is “in short: a return to a focus on...

Membase and Cloudera Integration
Membase and Cloudera Integration

Today is an exciting day for Membase. A number of us are attending Hadoop World 2010 in New York City, and if the event reception tonight is any indication of things to come tomorrow, it is going to be an...

May 12: The Week in Couchbase NoSQL
May 12: The Week in Couchbase NoSQL

Hi all Couchbase readers! It’s been more than a week since the last blog so we have a lot to cover in this one… For those of you that don’t know, every week I dedicate a full blog page to...