My favorite technical book of all time has been the C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie affectionately referred to as K&R. They popularized a term that will ever be in a developer parlance – Hello World. #include main() {...
After many months of hard work running up to our launch, writing this blog entry is the very last item on my pre-launch to-do list. We just walked out of our “go/no-go” meeting on the software and we’re ready to...
I am thrilled to be writing this blog post announcing to the world that Membase and CouchOne have merged to become Couchbase! Our website is full of information about the merger, and I invite you to read more about why...
I just sent an email to our open source mobile community sharing some exciting developments we’ve made in the last months. I also want to share it with the blog, because I’m sure many of our database users also have...
Learn about the new release of GeoCouch improves the spatial index building time a lot (up to 10x) which comes from using a new bulk insertion algorithm.
Today we let our hosting users know that we are transferring our Apache CouchDB hosting service to a new company called Iris Couch. The hosting offering is still in beta but close to being generally available, so it was important...
(Also see video blog) Today we announced a very exciting relationship with Heroku: Heroku’s Memcached Add-On is powered by NorthScale Memcached Server and NorthScale is operating the add-on service on Heroku’s behalf. For those who haven’t checked out Heroku, they...
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...
[This blog was syndicated from https://blog.grallandco.com] Introduction When I was looking for a more effective way to create my cluster I asked some sysadmins which tools I should use to do it. The answer I got during OSDC...
tldr; The storage part of CouchTalk is easy, just jpeg and wav resources keyed by id. What’s interesting is the application model that assumes sequential keys, allowing the front end to index into the data without issuing any queries. To...
Hi, this is Damien Katz, CEO at CouchOne. I’ve got some news I’m extremely excited to finally announce: a merger between CouchOne and Membase! A little background: I met James Phillips, the co-founder of Membase, for the first time in...
As a developer, if you’ve installed Couchbase Server 2.0 and seen its new features, you might want to hit the server with some load to do some basic testing of your Couchbase cluster. I’ve personally had a number of reasons...