Within every market, a leader emerges. In the 90s, the database market was represented by fierce competition between Sybase, Informix and Oracle. Oracle emerged as the leader. It was a well engineered database, a high performance database, and a general...
Today we shared some results from a survey we conducted a few weeks ago to assess the current state of NoSQL adoption. Though we originally ran the survey to gather data for planning purposes, we found the data so interesting...
On Thursday Oracle announced another bad quarter. Oracle blamed sales execution for the miss last quarter, this time it blamed the economy. I’m not so sure. The accelerating shift away from relational databases to new technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop...
SSL version 3 is no longer secure. Recently, a new vulnerability in the SSL v3 protocol called the ‘Poodle attack’ was discovered by folks at Google. At Couchbase, since we take the security of our products seriously, we wanted you...
Last week saw the first edition of Span, a London developer conference all about building scalable systems. 114 developers spent the day listening to eleven speakers, covering topics such as reactive programming, unified logs, the history of Erlang, stream processing,...
I attended the Strata Conference last week and although I did not catch the talks, the buzz was definitely in the air on the show floor. “Machine Learning,” “I am a Data Scientist” and “we are showing off a...
This morning, Matt Aslett of The 451 blogged on The beginning of the end of NoSQL in which he highlighted the uselessness of the NoSQL category name. Good post, as usual. But this isn’t new news. People have been griping...
Wrapping up the 3 Day Samsung Developer Conference was a complete blast. “Into the Future over at Samsung Developer Conference,” we saw a glimpse of Samsung’s version of the future of mobile and wearable technology over at San Francisco’s Moscone...
Couchbase Mobile can make you 100 times more productive. Similarly to the way Ruby on Rails revolutionized the way we think about web services by offering a concise way to model REST-based web applications and APIs servers, the sync function...