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Couchbase, a leader in database solutions for the Digital Economy, announced today the appointment of Greg Henry as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Henry brings more than 20 years of experience leading global growth and financial operations within the technology industry, including time at General Electric (NYSE: GE), Ernst & Young LLP, and most recently, ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW).

“Greg has an impressive track record growing global enterprise software businesses,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “His financial, strategic and operational experience makes him ideally suited to assume the role of Couchbase’s CFO as we continue to rapidly scale our business.”

At ServiceNow, Henry led the enterprise cloud company’s financial development and was responsible for a global team of more than 130 professionals in accounting, procurement and treasury. Prior to ServiceNow, Henry held various senior executive financial positions at GE Healthcare, culminating as CFO of the multi-billion dollar Healthcare IT unit.

“I am thrilled to be a part of the team that will guide and grow Couchbase as it strengthens its leadership position in the Digital Economy,” said Greg Henry, Couchbase CFO. “Couchbase is in a period of significant global growth as an increasing number of the world’s largest enterprises are relying on Couchbase’s technology for their success. I am looking forward to continuing this great momentum and leading new opportunities for the company.”

Henry holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.

Sujan Jain, Couchbase’s CFO since 2014, is leaving to follow his dream of starting his own company. Mr. Wiederhold stated, “I would like to thank Sujan for his steady financial leadership and consistent execution on our compelling business model. He has built a strong and stable finance team at Couchbase, and we all wish him continued success in the future.”

“It has been a privilege to partner with Bob and the entire Couchbase team to help deliver sustainably high growth and outstanding returns to our investors, as we continue to monetize our innovative platform,” said Mr. Jain. “I am confident exciting days are ahead for Couchbase, as the company is well-positioned to capture share in the next-generation database market.”

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Couchbase, Inc., the provider of the database for the Digital Economy, today announced its market-leading database supports device management capabilities for millions of connected enterprise devices on Verizon Labs’ innovative IoT platform. Verizon is radically simplifying the process of developing new IoT solutions and accelerating time to market. Businesses can gain actionable insights on the millions, and one day billions, of connected devices on Verizon’s IoT platform supported by Couchbase.

Today’s enterprises require the ability to connect all its devices into a comprehensive network and to get usable information from it. Modern enterprises are increasingly connecting a wide array of devices such as sensors, smart meters, connected cars, security alarm panels and more. In order to gain meaning and extract trends from this data, enterprises need to be able to collect and aggregate data in real-time.  

“Customer experience is the new competitive battlefield for IoT developers and providers,” wrote Bhavish Sood, research director at Gartner, et al. “The convergence of IoT and a data-driven approach toward customer experience allows enterprises to use sensor data in real time to offer greater personalization for products and services. It is the data generated by devices; collected at endpoints, gateways and in the cloud; and consumed in analytic applications that will enable enterprises to derive value from participating in IoT.”¹

Couchbase’s technology was selected to support Verizon’s IoT platform because of its scale of deployment, flexible schema and ease-of-use. Unlike relational databases, Couchbase’s NoSQL document-oriented database enables enterprises to scale quickly to support billions of connected devices and to achieve sub-milliseconds latency lookup. Enterprises rely on Verizon’s IoT platform to support mission-critical applications and capabilities, requiring a continuously available platform. Couchbase’s cross data center replication ensures the platform is available 24×7.

Every connected device and sensor has unique and varying characteristics. Utilizing Couchbase’s JSON flexibility and schema-free architecture, enterprises can easily represent complex and varying data. Additionally, any new devices or changes to device characteristics can be easily made without application downtime or redesigning the data model.

“Today, there are six billion IoT connected devices, with projections of 20 billion connected devices by 2020,” said Mohanraj Umapathy, director of IoT platform, Verizon Labs. “This magnitude of devices and data requires cutting-edge technology that meets these unprecedented needs of scale and responsivity. Couchbase technology helps us provide the enterprise-grade stability, predictable performance, scalability and flexibility necessary to gain real-time actionable insights and information into the millions of connected devices we support on our IoT platform.” 

With Couchbase’s support, Verizon’s IoT network enables customers to maintain always-on, always-active applications and to receive ad-hoc reporting for trend insights and device management. 

“The future of enterprise success in the Digital Economy will rely heavily on data management as enterprises’ mission-critical applications and devices become increasingly more connected,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Couchbase is enabling some of the world’s most innovative enterprises to harness Verizon’s IoT network data in meaningful ways and to inform important business decisions vital for lasting success.”

Verizon Labs’ Director of IoT Platform Mohanraj Umapathy presented a general session keynote and a breakout session about this innovative use case at Couchbase Connect 2016 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. To watch the recorded live stream, visit https://www.couchbase.com/connect/.

¹ Gartner, How to Use IoT to Extend Customer Experiences, 17 October 2016

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Couchbase, Inc., the leader in database solutions for the Digital Economy, announced today at Couchbase Connect16 a range of new capabilities including full text search and real-time analytics that will dramatically simplify the way developers and architects build Digital Economy applications. With a single platform delivering operational, search and real-time analytical functionality, digital businesses can now create a range of intelligent and data-intensive applications without the complexity of mapping and moving data between disparate systems or the difficulty of managing multiple technologies.

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“Today, businesses expend considerable effort to get insights into its operational data. Typically, data is extracted from its operational database and then gets transformed and loaded into a data warehouse or a Hadoop cluster,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and products, Couchbase. “Getting insights from this data can take anywhere from hours to days. Couchbase Analytics will reduce time to insights to only seconds.”

Couchbase Analytics

Increasingly, customization and personalization of applications based on behavior has become key to the customer experience, and in-application analytics take personalization to the next level. Customer behaviors and patterns that enterprises are already tracking in their operational database can now be immediately leveraged to provide more relevant information, products or services back to the customer. With the elimination of ETL (Extract, Transfer, Load), jobs, and reduced dependency on other technologies, Couchbase Analytics simplifies the ability for digital businesses to develop highly-customized apps.

The Couchbase Analytics developer preview release empowers developers to run complex, ad-hoc queries on operational JSON data stored in Couchbase to get truly real-time insights using the new distributed parallel analytics engine. This analytics engine is delivered as an independently-scalable service using Couchbase’s breakthrough Multi-Dimensional Scaling technology, enabling users to run analytics on the same data platform without any impact to their business operations.

“Consumers increasingly expect a personalized experience from the companies they engage with, driving the need for the analysis of operational data to support personalized experiences, content and offers,” said Matt Aslett, research director, data platforms and analytics, 451 Research. “As such, we anticipate growing demand for databases that support combined operational and analytic processing to deliver analytics services without impacting the performance of operational applications.”

Couchbase Full Text Search

The new Full Text Search capability, in developer preview, is built on the popular open-source project Bleve and is now fully integrated with Couchbase. This functionality enables developers to add rich text search features like faceting and relevance-based scoring to their apps without replicating data to a separate search system. A single click now extends the powerful management capabilities Couchbase is known for, like auto data distribution, rebalance and node failover, to the text search service.

“At Seenit, we depend on our database to store hundreds of gigabytes of data associated with our videos, including entities, visual tags, transcriptions and sentiments,” said Dave Starling, CTO, Seenit. “We already extensively use N1QL for our structured querying, but now with full text search integrated into Couchbase, we can seamlessly search all this data and derive relevance-based intelligence using a single data platform.”            

Couchbase Server 4.6

Digital businesses are increasingly dealing with interactions across a geographically-distributed customer base. For data like game scores, best-sellers, standby lists, live-streams and active stocks, it is now required for the application to manage these interactions in real-time with consistency. Couchbase Server 4.6 makes developing these highly-interactive, globally-distributed applications much simpler. Building on market-leading capabilities including Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR), Couchbase Server 4.6 adds multi-data center awareness, globally-ordered conflict resolution, and a range of other developer-centric features to speed up and simplify app development, enabling enterprises to reduce time-to-market and development costs.

Key features in Couchbase Server 4.6 include:

• Collections via native data structures: lists, maps, sets and queues
• Clients with multi-data center awareness: reads and writes to any data center
• Replication with globally-ordered conflict resolution: concurrent writes, consistent data
• Support for .NET Core: cross-platform, flexible deployment using .NET built for real-time cloud applications

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Big Data Integrations with Spark and Kafka

Enhancing customer experience and engagement by going beyond the operational database is also becoming increasingly important to businesses. To build more intelligent, responsive applications, developers need technologies to continuously stream and analyze data changes. The new Couchbase Spark 2.0 and Kafka 3.0 Connectors enable this analysis and dynamically adapt to any change in deployment topologies and environments.

Couchbase Spark Connector 2.0
With this release comes:

• Support for Spark 2.0 and its structured streaming API – a better way to continuously analyze operational data
• Support for Couchbase Cluster topology changes – allowing users to seamlessly adapt their sophisticated analytics processing to the constantly changing production environment
• Significantly improved stream performance – enabling Spark analytics on fresher data

“There are several big data challenges that a combination of Apache Spark and next-generation databases like Couchbase can solve together,” said John Tripier, senior director of business development, Databricks. “We are excited to see how the Couchbase Spark Connector has rapidly evolved and now includes support for Spark 2.0, as well as dynamic topologies, making it easier for customers to build and manage advanced analytical processing on their operational data.”

Couchbase Kafka Connector 3.0

With this release comes:

• Support for Kafka Connect – a framework for building scalable and secure stream data pipelines with Kafka
• Support for Couchbase Cluster topology changes – allowing stream data pipelines to dynamically adapt to the constantly changing, deployed environments

“Streaming platforms simplify the creation and management of data pipelines, enabling businesses to respond in real-time to the increasing number of signals from the environments in which they operate,” said Jabari Norton, vice president of business development at Confluent. “With the release of a new connector based on our open-source Schema Registry and Apache Kafka’s Connect API, we’re pleased to partner with Couchbase on supported integration with Kafka and Confluent.”

Resources

• Couchbase Analytics: Introduction https://docs.couchbase.com/server/4.5/analytics/introduction.html
• Couchbase Full Text Search – Enhancements – Documentation https://docs.couchbase.com/server/4.6/fts/fts-enhancements.html  
• Couchbase Full Text Search Blog https://www.couchbase.com/blog/full-text-search-enhancements-in-couchbase-server-4.6/
• Couchbase Server 4.6: What’s New  https://docs.couchbase.com/server/4.6/introduction/whats-new.html
• Couchbase Spark Connect 2.0.0 Blog https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-spark-connector-2-0-0-released/
• Couchbase Kafka 3.0.0 DP Blog https://www.couchbase.com/blog/kafka-connector-3-developer-preview-1/

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Couchbase, Inc., a leading next-generation database provider, will host Couchbase Connect 2016 on November 7-9 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Themed “Imagine. Innovate. Disrupt.” the conference will bring together developers, architects and decision makers from market-leaders and disruptors in the Digital Economy to share best practices and technology solutions underpinning their new web, mobile and IoT applications.

“In 2016, we saw the Digital Economy explode as more enterprises realized the significant value and importance of modernizing their business operations and applications to meet the needs of today’s digital consumers,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase. “In fact, the Digital Economy grew six times faster than the economy as a whole. And the web, mobile and IoT applications on which these businesses depend increasingly rely on Couchbase as their database platform.”

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Digital Transformation Experts Share Experiences and Best Practices

Senior executives, IT leaders and developers from leading brands will showcase their experiences implementing next-generation data solutions at web scale, developing offline-first mobile apps, moving to microservices and more.  Customer-led sessions will include:

• Airline Solutions at Web Scale –Dieter Frauser, VP R&D Architecture, Quality & Governance, and Paul Hubert, CTO Office, Amadeus
• Connecting the Dots with Couchbase – Jay Duraisamy, VP Technology, Data Platforms, Equifax
• Building Offline-First, Industrial Apps for the Field – Michael Hart, Head of Mobile Engineering, Predix Platform, GE Digital
• Going All In: From A Single Use Case to Many – Michael Kehoe, Senior Site Reliability Manager, LinkedIn
• Continuing the Evolution for the Digital Economy at Marriott – Thomas Vidnovic, Solutions Architect, Marriott International, Inc.
• NoSQL in eCommerce: How Staples Solved its B2B Challenge – Ross Sanger, Senior Architect, B2B Commerce, Staples
• Modernizing Flight Operations Technology at United Airlines – Tejal Patel, Managing Director, United Airlines
• Solving Real-Time IoT Challenges with Couchbase – Mohanraj Umapathy, Director, IoT Platform, Verizon

Broad Ecosystem of Partners Exhibit in Partner Pavilion

This year’s event features, for the first time, a Partner Pavilion hosting partners across the broad spectrum of Couchbase’s partner community, including technology partners such as Databricks, Simba, Slamdata and Vormetric; systems integrators including Wipro; cloud partners including Microsoft; go-to-market partners such as Dell/EMC; and service delivery partners including Avalon Consulting. Partner-led sessions in the conference include:

• Running at Large Scale, without Admins – Clint Ricker, Technical Lead, Cisco
• Streaming Operational Data with Kafka – David Tucker, Director, Partner Engineering and Alliances, Confluent
• Exploring All the Ways to Analyze Data with Spark  – Jason Pohl, Data Solutions Architect, Databricks
• Pies, Charts and More: Data Visualization Made Easy – Jeff Carr, CEO, Slamdata and Jay Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Cloud9Charts
• Bootiful Couchbase: Microservices with Spring – Simon Basle, Software Engineer, Pivotal

Couchbase Connect16 Keynotes

The 2016 Couchbase Connect conference will include a keynote from CEO Bob Wiederhold on how Couchbase is enabling Digital Economy businesses. Senior Vice President of Engineering and Products Ravi Mayuram will also deliver a keynote focused on how Couchbase is redefining the database with a single platform, including newly released capabilities – Full Text Search and Real Time Analytics. On day two, CMO Peter Finter will host a general session examining the future of web, IoT and mobile applications and the implications for the underlying data platform, including presentations from Amadeus, Verizon ThingSpace, and Couchbase’s Chief Mobile Architect Wayne Carter.

All-day, Hands-on Workshops Led by Couchbase Experts

The three-day event kicks off on November 7, with day-long, hands-on workshops on hot topics enabling technologists and developers to learn how to administer NoSQL, build apps on NoSQL, develop mobile NoSQL, or develop and deploy applications with SQL for Documents (N1QL).

Register for Couchbase Connect 2016 today and stay updated on the event by using the #Connect16 hashtag on Twitter.

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Couchbase, a leader in database solutions for the digital economy, today announced significant momentum in its training programs, with courses aimed at enterprise developers and architects seeing a 600 percent increase in enrollment compared to last year. With more enterprise customers taking hands-on training than ever before, the company has grown its offering to provide the most comprehensive and widely available on-site, virtual and classroom trainings of any NoSQL vendor.

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Couchbase currently offers hands-on, three and four-day, intensive classroom and lab trainings covering four different skill areas in 12 cities across North America and a total of 20 cities worldwide. These courses are also available as “Virtual Classes” in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, enabling enterprises to provide the best hands-on lab-intensive training for their respective teams without requiring additional travel costs. The performance based approach has led a majority of Couchbase’s enterprise customers to attend multiple sessions, growing and reinforcing their skills in the process.

“With more than half of our enterprise customers sending staff to our trainings on a repeat basis, it’s clear the hands-on, performance based courses we offer are driving real results for our participants,” said Peter Childers, Vice-President of Couchbase Learning Services. “Our largest and fastest growing accounts invest in taking hands-on training early as new customers, and they come back for additional education as their staff and applications grow in depth.”

Couchbase training programs are designed to help developers, architects, system admins, data engineers, DevOps and DBA professionals build expertise in Couchbase NoSQL technologies and include:

• CS300 Couchbase NoSQL Server Administration: Gain the skills needed for operating scalable NoSQL datacenter solutions to manage mission-critical workloads.

Those interested in Couchbase training online or in person are invited to visit https://learn.couchbase.com.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (September 21, 2016) – Couchbase, a leader in database solutions for the digital economy, announced today the appointment of Narayan Sundareswaran as Vice President of Business Development. Sundareswaran has more than 30 years of experience leading global growth and business development strategies within the technology industry, including time at SAP and recently, DataStax.

“Couchbase is in an exciting period of growth and momentum and we are thrilled to have Narayan joining to help us enable further expansion,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “His expertise as a leader of growth will be instrumental for Couchbase as we continue to support a growing list of global Fortune 500 enterprises in the digital economy.”

Sundareswaran led DataStax’s technology partnerships and global business development and expanded the company’s ecosystem across web, mobile, cloud and IoT use cases. Prior to DataStax, Sundareswaran held various executive roles, culminating as a Global Vice President at the Office of the CTO at SAP. In these roles, he guided Fortune 1000 customers through their Digital Transformation journey with new product development and strategic technology programs, while driving global adoption of emerging and innovative technology offerings.

“Couchbase’s technology is truly unmatched and is enabling some of the world’s largest enterprises to build next generation applications for the digital economy,” said Sundareswaran. “I am looking forward to continuing the great momentum Couchbase has seen and opening new opportunities for the company as it looks to power the critical applications of the future.”

Sundareswaran provides thought leadership at industry events as an expert who has lead transformations at companies both large and small. He shares guidance on achieving inorganic growth through large deals, completing strategic acquisitions, developing strategic partnerships and investments, and by defining and building out new business models and strategies for go-to-market success.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (Sept. 15, 2016) – Couchbase, a leader in database solutions for the digital economy, announced today the appointment of Peter Finter as Chief Marketing Officer. Finter is a senior international marketing executive who has led global organizations through periods of rapid growth and transformation.

“Peter’s expertise, experience and focus are exactly what we require as Couchbase builds upon its success and reaches new heights,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Couchbase will benefit from his proven track record of building and leading strong global marketing teams and delivering results.”

Finter joins Couchbase from Gigamon, where he led product management, business development and marketing.  Gigamon’s successful IPO in June 2013 and subsequent launch into the cybersecurity market resulted in nine consecutive quarters of beating financial  expectations and increased the value of the company threefold.

“I’m thrilled to join Couchbase just as the explosive growth of the digital economy is driving a profound transformation in the way data is managed and user experiences are delivered,” said Finter. “Couchbase’s next generation database delivers the scale, performance and agility required by the most demanding organizations, and is uniquely positioned to enable their success.”

Previously, Finter worked at Juniper Networks and was responsible for worldwide demand generation and the expansion of Juniper’s Enterprise and Service Provider customer base in the Americas. He has more than 20 years of experience building and leading marketing and sales organizations for a variety of B2B businesses in EMEA and Canada.

Finter holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College and is a Chartered Engineer.

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Mountain View, Calif.,—September 9, 2016—Couchbase today announced it was named a Leader by Forrester Research in its report, “The Forrester Wave™: Document Stores, Q3 2016.” We believe the company’s inclusion in the report further validates its standing as a leading database company enabling enterprises to succeed in today’s Digital Economy.

“The use of documents in modern applications has grown significantly across industries to support new and emerging use cases,” the report states. “Document store databases offer enterprise architecture (EA) pros new choices to store, process, and access all kinds of documents, delivering extreme scale and performance, granular search, security, and update capabilities…This market is growing largely because EA pros see documents as a critical component for supporting next-generation customer and business applications.”

The report examined 27 criteria to evaluate 10 document store databases. The report stated that “Couchbase offers good scale, performance, and security to support a variety of document-driven use cases” and that it “has a high performance document-oriented database.” According to the report, “Enterprises like Couchbase’s support, ease of use, API framework, broad use cases, performance, and flexible query language capabilities.”

As organizations across every industry continue to transition into the Digital Economy, Couchbase aims to provide customers with the ability to deploy and support a wide variety of complex, mission-critical applications and use cases. According to the report, application usage suitable for document stores includes:

• Content management for data-driven applications
• Data archiving that focuses on integrated data sets
• Embedded document data store applications for ISVs and VARs
• Mobile apps that support documents
• Real-time apps that need to support documents

“Couchbase is proud to have enabled some of the world’s leading enterprises to build and grow their Digital Economy businesses,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “We believe this report is an important validation of where the market is headed and a reflection that Couchbase and its products will continue to be a critical component for successful modern organizations.”

Couchbase continues to support and innovate for the Digital Economy. In June 2016, Couchbase released Couchbase Server 4.5, an enhancement to its breakthrough, SQL-based query language SQL++ (“nickel”), which delivers powerful new capabilities that make it far easier for enterprises to adopt NoSQL for mission-critical applications. In August 2016, Couchbase was also named a Leader by Forrester Research in its report, “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q3 2016.” The company will host its annual industry summit, Couchbase Connect 2016 in Santa Clara on November 7-9, 2016. Those interested in attending can visit https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-connect-2016-call-for-papers/ for more information.

Resources

●  View a complimentary version of the report here

●  Visit our website to learn more about how Couchbase can help you 

●  Sign up for Couchbase Days, a free training session in a city near you

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Couchbase today announced it was named a leader by an independent research firm in “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q3 2016.” We believe Couchbase’s standing in the report reflects its significant momentum in enabling leading organizations in verticals such as e-commerce, online video-streaming, healthcare, financial services, and gaming to succeed in today’s Digital Economy.

“NoSQL is not an option — it has become a necessity to support next-generation applications…29 percent of technology decision-makers in our 2016 survey tell us they have either already implemented or are implementing NoSQL technology; 12 percent are expanding or upgrading their implementations,” said the Forrester report.

The report examined 26 criteria to evaluate big data NoSQL solution providers. Couchbase was recognized in the report for providing “ease of use for document-oriented databases… Customers (such as AT&T, eBay, LinkedIn, McGraw Hill Education, Orbitz, and Tesco)… use the product to support various mission-critical workloads, including operational, analytical, and mixed workloads.”

As organizations continue to move into the Digital Economy, Couchbase’s leading NoSQL solution provides customers with the ability to:

• Support large numbers of concurrent users (tens of thousands, perhaps millions)
• Deliver highly responsive experiences to a globally distributed base of users
• Be always available – with no downtime
• Handle semi- and unstructured data seamlessly
• Rapidly adapt to changing demands, thanks to its schemaless JSON data model

“Couchbase has grown substantially in the past two years and we are thrilled to be recognized as a leader in NoSQL technology and see, in our opinion, our adoption and innovation recognized by a leading firm,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “We are seeing an increasing number of global enterprise companies using our services for a wide variety of complex, highly scalable and mission critical Digital Economy applications, proving the heights of NoSQL are just now being realized.”

Resources

●       Visit our website to learn more about Couchbase can help you 

●       Sign up for Couchbase Days, a free training session in a city near you.

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Couchbase, the database for the Digital Economy, today at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 4.5. This significant new release delivers powerful new capabilities that make it far easier for enterprises with deep SQL experience and relational database technology to adopt NoSQL for mission critical applications. Couchbase has enhanced its breakthrough, SQL-based query language N1QL (“nickel”), with new features like graphical tools for visually exploring the data model and building ad hoc queries. Additional enterprise capabilities include advanced security, as well as significantly faster queries and indexing that extend Couchbase’s performance leadership in the NoSQL industry.

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“As companies evolve to compete in the Digital Economy, they’re introducing modern database technologies to meet new application requirements. Couchbase has built a reputation for delivering unmatched performance required by web, mobile and IoT applications,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering at Couchbase. “With the innovations in Couchbase Server 4.5, we’re extending our long-standing performance leadership to a new class of enterprise applications that require complex query processing, while also making it even easier for enterprises to undergo digital transformation by leveraging existing SQL-based skills and technology investments.”

RDBMS to NoSQL – Smoothing the Transition

The N1QL query language, introduced in Couchbase Server 4.0, empowered developers and admins, for the first time ever, to use their SQL skills to access and query JSON data. Couchbase Server 4.5 builds on N1QL, adding new features that make it even easier for customers to introduce NoSQL into their existing architecture, and give them greater confidence in making the transition:

● Query Workbench – A built-in query editor for writing and executing queries in N1QL and immediately viewing the results. Query Workbench makes it fast and easy to run ad-hoc queries on the fly.

● Auto schema discovery – Allows data modelers to visually explore and understand the shape of their data, and lets admins easily manage data even as it quickly changes. This makes it easy to evolve from the structure of relational to the more flexible JSON format.

● Query monitoring and profiling – Admins can monitor individual queries and the nodes running queries to discover diagnostic and performance details, enabling faster troubleshooting.

“At Amadeus, our booking platforms process nearly 500 billion travel-related data requests per day. We work with Couchbase to help support these services and keep the travel industry moving,” said Michael Hirschberg, senior system engineer big data, Amadeus IT Group. “Couchbase Server 4.5 delivers impressive new capabilities, from enhanced security features to significantly faster data access and queries, which allows us to expand and accelerate our use of Couchbase to support more applications and use cases.”

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Couchbase Extends Performance Lead

Couchbase Server 4.5 includes numerous improvements that extend its performance lead to many new types of use cases that rely on complex queries. For customers, performance advantages translate into significant cost savings (fewer resources required for a given workload) and better end user experiences. Select features driving improved query performance in Couchbase Server 4.5 include:

● Memory-optimized global indexes – Lets developers build global indexes using a highly optimized, in-memory and lock-free data structure. This delivers faster, fresher indexes and high performance queries under very high data modification rates.

● Array indexing – N1QL’s support of array processing within queries has been extended – now it’s possible to create an index of array elements ranging from plain scalar values to complex arrays or JSON objects deeply nested in the array, further improving query performance.

● Flexible JOINs – N1QL has been extended to support new query optimizations that more efficiently handle JOINs, increasing performance of these queries by orders of magnitude.

● Fast partial reads and writes with JSON documents – Allows data in a document to be added, removed or modified within a document – without the application having to read and write the entire document. This results in better network utilization and faster reads and updates for large documents.

Improved Enterprise Grade Security

As more mission critical applications are deployed on Couchbase, security becomes an increasing concern. The new release introduces two big advancements in security:

• Couchbase Server 4.5 uses X.509 certificates to provide strongly trusted on-the-wire encryption for client-server communications, whether within a single cluster or across multiple clusters or data centers. This new capability makes it simple for administrators to manage and rotate certificates without application downtime.
• The new release adds role-based access control (RBAC) for administrators. In addition to the existing encryption and auditing facilities, RBAC provides fine grained control over administrative access and simplifies compliance with governance rules.

Production Certified Support for Containers

Couchbase Server 4.5 also includes production certified support for Docker and Red Hat OpenShift container platforms. Customers can now confidently leverage these platforms to more easily and quickly scale their Couchbase deployments and maximize resource efficiency, while simplifying the full application lifecycle.

Couchbase Server 4.5 is available today for download here. Additionally, Couchbase will be showcasing Couchbase Server 4.5 at O’Reilly Velocity, in booth 810.

Resources

• Blog: Announcing Couchbase Server 4.5
• Couchbase Server 4.5: What’s New
• Couchbase Developer Portal
• Couchbase Server Product Overview
• Whitepaper: What’s New in Couchbase Server 4.5

Couchbase, the database for the Digital Economy, today announced at DockerCon production certified support for Docker, the open source containers platform, will ship with the upcoming new Couchbase Server release. Docker enables developers to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development. Docker containers guarantee that an application will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.

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“Couchbase has rigorously tested Couchbase Server on Docker, which will give customers assurance of performance and reliability running in Docker containers,” said Cihan Biyikoglu, senior director of product at Couchbase. “With production certified support, customers will enjoy high performance deployments with full infrastructure efficiency by running Couchbase Server on Docker. This enables customers to launch Couchbase Server clusters on-demand within seconds for production, development or testing.”

Containers are gaining rapid adoption as enterprises seek elastic infrastructure that enables them to scale more easily and operate with greater agility. As a result, there is an increasing demand from enterprises eager for powerful database software that is supported, tested and runs reliably on container platforms.

Running Couchbase Server on Docker containers simplifies the application lifecycle. With this production certified support, developers will be able to compose applications with microservices using lightweight containers, allowing developers to build, test and run applications with far simpler configuration management throughout the application lifecycle.

Couchbase is attending DockerCon in Seattle and will be showcasing Couchbase Server capabilities in booth S16.

Resources

• Get started with Couchbase Server on Docker 
• Find Couchbase Server on Docker Hub
• Containerizing Couchbase Server on Docker

Couchbase, provider of the database for the Digital Economy, today announced at Spark Summit the general availability of a new Couchbase Spark Connector. This integration joins two of the most scalable and best performing Big Data technologies to make analytics easier, faster and more productive. Using the Couchbase Spark Connector, businesses can quickly operationalize business insights to deliver better customer experiences through web, mobile and IoT applications.

TWEET THIS: New #Couchbase and #Spark connector drives faster, actionable business insight. http://bit.ly/1Ps8UDm

“We are very excited about today’s news. Couchbase and Spark are uniquely capable of providing the scale and performance that Big Data requires,” said Will Gardella, director of Big Data product management at Couchbase. “The Spark data processing engine and Couchbase NoSQL database are a natural fit to perform end-to-end, real-time data analytics. Integrating these two memory-centric technologies via the Couchbase Spark Connector provides a compelling Big Data solution that can dramatically improve overall business success for Digital Economy businesses.”

Web, mobile and IoT applications store and process ever increasing, massive amounts of data that when effectively leveraged, can deliver great customer experiences and create enormous competitive advantage. To achieve these benefits, businesses must have an analytical platform, like Spark, that can quickly and scalably extract data insights, and an operational database platform, like Couchbase, that can quickly and scalably turn those insights into actions. Because of the tremendous data volume and variety, the analytical and database platforms must be highly flexible, scalable and efficiently integrated together.

“By combining the power of open source Apache Spark with Couchbase, organizations will be able to exponentially increase the value derived from their Big Data,” said John Tripier, senior director of business development at Databricks. “We are excited to see Couchbase extending the power of Apache Spark, by making it easier and faster for their customers to gain performance advantages from the insights they derive from their Big Data initiatives.”

The Couchbase Spark Connector provides a flexible, efficient, open source integration between both of these best-of-breed technologies. The Couchbase Spark Connector enables ultra-fast streaming data exchange between the two platforms – reducing time to insight and time to action. In short, Couchbase NoSQL database together with Apache Spark stream processing enables applications to get smarter, faster.  Examples of use cases that benefit from the Couchbase Spark Connector include:

• Real-time product recommendations. eCommerce applications suggest products to customers using proprietary, complex analytics that trigger recommendations, promotions or discounts.
• Failure detection. IoT sensor-driven applications evaluate and predict component failures using complex machine learning algorithms and streaming analytics on real-time data, which in turn can generate corrective actions, notifications and alerts.
• Network intrusion detection. Network monitoring systems detect potential security threats using ETL and analytics over metadata and historical access logs, subsequently taking immediate protective action.
• Fraud detection. Fraud detection applications compare questionable transactions to known statistical models using analytics and machine learning, and rating them.
• Product and customer 360. Comprehensive product and customer management tools aggregate data from multiple sources into a single unified repository, thereby providing a 360 degree view not previously available from the source repositories.

The Couchbase Spark Connector is available today for download here. Additionally, Couchbase will be providing demonstrations of the integration at Spark Summit, in booth B7.

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Big Data Hub
• Blog: Announcing the New Couchbase Spark Connector
• Blog: Why Couchbase and Spark?
• Get Started with Couchbase
• Get Started with the Couchbase Spark Connector
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Visit www.databricks.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 15, 2016 – Couchbase, the database for the Digital Economy, today announced it has secured $30 million in a series F round of funding led by Sorenson Capital with current investors participating in the round, including Accel Partners, Adams Street Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners and West Summit. This capital will be used to accelerate sales, and expand technical support and engineering investments as Couchbase extends its leadership as the de facto standard operational database for Digital Economy businesses.

Tweet this: $30M raised for #NoSQL #Database Leader #Couchbase http://bit.ly/1TTEpaI

“Our business, built on customers focused on winning in the Digital Economy, is very strong. This funding round will take us to cash flow positive and should be our last round prior to an IPO,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “To be successful in the Digital Economy, businesses need to build great Web, mobile and IoT applications that deliver great user experiences that critically depend on the capabilities of the underlying operational database. Developers, architects and CIOs across every industry realize this, and are selecting Couchbase over our competitors as their operational database for modernizing their technology platforms.”

Digital Economy Drives Operational Database Market Growth

A recent report by 451 Research shows the operational database market is expected to reach almost $50 billion by 2019*. Companies adapting to the Digital Economy are driving this growth.  Whether established leaders launching new Digital Economy businesses or startups building from scratch, Digital Economy businesses are choosing NoSQL technology like Couchbase as the platform for their Web, mobile and IoT applications.  

Technology that supports Digital Economy businesses is being adopted at different rates. Couchbase views the Digital Economy in four categories: Digital Startups, Digital Leaders, Digital Transformers and Digital Laggards.

Couchbase is uniquely positioned to become the operational database of choice for the Digital Startups, Digital Leaders and Digital Transformers. It is the only NoSQL database architected to consolidate multiple layers of functionality delivering the simplicity, speed and performance of a key value database, the flexibility of a document database, the ultra-low latency of a cache, and end-to-end mobile support with on-device storage and synchronization. 

Couchbase Investment Is Technology Growth Opportunity

Sorenson Capital led the recent funding round and is a new investor in Couchbase. This investment underscores Sorenson Capital’s increasing focus on technology-based growth investment opportunities across new and emerging sectors. Last year, it added technology and growth equity veteran Rob Rueckert to lead and further expand its technology practice. Rueckert will join the Couchbase Board of Directors.

Tweet this: New investor Sorenson Capital leads $30M #funding round for #NoSQL database leader #Couchbase http://bit.ly/1TTEpaI

“Couchbase is transforming the way companies do business in the Digital Economy,” said Rueckert. “Using a high performing database as capable as Couchbase, businesses can deliver great customer experiences. Companies like AT&T, Walmart, Dixons and Nike are just a few of the industry leaders using Couchbase to redefine how they engage with customers in their Digital Economy businesses. This blue chip customer list indicates the high level of interest in Couchbase and the momentum they are experiencing. They are a great addition to our portfolio.”

Additional Resources

• Sorenson Capital Announces Investment in Couchbase
• About Couchbase
• About Sorenson Capital
• *451 Research Report “Data Platforms and Analytics Market Sizing and Forecasts”

Couchbase, the database for the Digital Economy, today announced general availability of Couchbase Mobile 1.2, a new release that makes it easier for enterprises and developers to build always available mobile applications. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2017, market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organizations capacity to deliver them*. To make it easier for professional developers to build and deploy mobile applications, Couchbase is building the most advanced mobile database, which now includes enterprise class administration, security and performance.

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#Couchbase Mobile 1.2 meets growing demand for out of the box solutions to build mobile #apps http://bit.ly/1VIHqaE #NoSQL #mobile

“Increasing competitive pressure requires organizations to quickly deliver engaging and data-rich mobile and Web apps. But, enterprises and developers building mobile applications struggle because there are so few out of the box solutions for mobile application infrastructure,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering, Couchbase. “Our new release of Couchbase Mobile delivers out of the box synchronization, security, administration and performance features that will help enterprises quickly deliver mobile applications that make them more competitive in the Digital Economy.”

Couchbase Mobile 1.2 builds on the revolutionary Couchbase Mobile platform. Working with customers such as General Electric, Ryanair, CrowdComfort and Seenit, Couchbase designed and delivered new features that address enterprise needs for easier administration, better security and even greater performance at scale.

“CrowdComfort’s crowd-sourced work order management application distinguishes itself by delivering a seamless online and offline customer experience in all types of environments. The need for our mobile application to be always available is mission critical,” said Abdullah Daoud, co-founder, CrowdComfort. “Couchbase Mobile provides the out of the box technology we need to help us support users from companies like GE, Saint-Gobain, National Grid, and McDonald’s, in a wide range of facilities and under varying connectivity limitations. Couchbase Mobile’s performance and reliability have saved our developers months of work so they can focus on building features that extend our competitive advantage in the market and keep our customers happy.”

Administration

Managing complex enterprise application ecosystems is a challenge for even the most sophisticated IT organizations. Couchbase Mobile 1.2 reduces administration headaches and accelerates implementation time with new management controls for adding and removing nodes. Couchbase Mobile 1.2 also includes new install capabilities that simplify in place upgrades, making it easier to administer large enterprise deployments.

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#Couchbase Mobile reduces admin headaches & accelerates implementation time with new mgmt controls http://bit.ly/1VIHqaE #NoSQL #database

Security

The proliferation of mobile usage has created a need for technology providers and enterprises to rapidly invest and innovate in security. There are five primary security concerns surrounding mobile data synchronization and decentralized storage of data on a mobile device: user authentication, data read/write access, data transport on the wire, data storage on device and data storage in the cloud. Couchbase Mobile has always addressed each of these areas and with this new release, Couchbase has further increased security on the device by encrypting data at rest on the device using enterprise level 256-bit AES full database encryption.

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#Couchbase Mobile improves security w/ at rest encryption of data on the device using 256-bit AES http://bit.ly/1VIHqaE #NoSQL #database

Performance

Couchbase has built a reputation for satisfying the most demanding enterprise scale and performance requirements. Couchbase Mobile 1.2 extends this performance lead to mobile by introducing Couchbase’s new storage engine, ForestDB, in Couchbase Lite. Using ForestDB, Couchbase Lite 1.2 delivers 2 – 5x faster performance than the previous releases for key database operations including inserts, updates, deletes, queries and indexing. New optimizations for memory management also provide better performance for nodes under ultra-high loads.

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#Couchbase Lite 1.2 delivers 2 – 5x faster performance for key #database operations http://bit.ly/1VIHqaE #NoSQL #mobile

Additional Resources

• Technical blog announcing 1.2
• Couchbase Mobile Developer Portal
• General Electric Use Case
• Ryanair Use Case
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• *Gartner Press Release, Gartner Says Demand for Enterprise Mobile Apps Will Outstrip Available Development Capacity Five to One, June 16, 2015, http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3076817

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 26, 2016 – Couchbase today announced support for @WalmartLab’s release of the OneOps cloud management platform to the open source community through Github. This move underscores Walmart’s commitment to open source and technology innovation as it extends its leadership in the Digital Economy. Many Couchbase customers, including Walmart, deploy and manage Couchbase Server in cloud environments to power digital businesses that must be always on, highly responsive and highly adaptable. OneOps delivers an open source tool that makes it easier for developers and DevOps to launch, manage and maintain products in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

“Walmart is the perfect model of a company that is smartly adapting to the Digital Economy. While its retail leadership was built on brick and mortar, Walmart has become a technology and e-commerce innovator, establishing itself as an influential Silicon Valley leader,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering at Couchbase. “Like many Digital Economy companies, Walmart uses Couchbase to ensure consistent, high performance with sub-millisecond response times for its e-commerce platform. OneOps is a great solution for managing cloud deployments and we strongly support the move to open source this exceptional technology.”

Walmart has built a best-in-class global e-commerce platform that supports anytime, anywhere shopping with reliable performance at peak times. That platform is entirely managed from OneOps. Using OneOps, the Walmart platform team is able to quickly deploy cloud solutions that leverage various technology components as a service and support migration between clouds.

Couchbase is a distributed NoSQL database engineered for performance, scalability and availability

offered via OneOps as a NoSQL database option. Since moving Couchbase and other technologies into OneOps, the Walmart e-commerce team has been exponentially more productive and agile. On Black Friday last year, using OneOps, Walmart was able to spin up tens of thousands of virtual machines running applications, including Couchbase, to handle peak traffic on Walmart.com across several clouds in a matter of hours. Prior to OneOps, this would have taken weeks or even months to set up and configure.

“My team is responsible for delivering best-in-class data management services to the Walmart e-commerce team. Like every enterprise IT team, we are looking for solutions that are easy to use, simple to manage and demonstrate reliable performance,” said Bob Lowell, director of engineering, data platform, Walmart.  “Managing Couchbase through OneOps makes it even easier for us to quickly respond to business needs with rapid innovation and delivery.”  

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Server
• OneOps
• OneOps Github Repository
• OneOps Blog
• Avalon Consulting resource for supporting Couchbase through OneOps