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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA., April 3, 2017 —  Couchbase Inc., the NoSQL database leader, today announced the appointment of former Veritas President Matt Cain as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, effective immediately.  Cain succeeds Bob Wiederhold, who has served as Chief Executive Officer of Couchbase since 2010 and will remain as Executive Chairman.

Cain joins the company following record enterprise growth in which Couchbase has emerged as the database platform of choice for modern web, mobile and IoT applications that delivers unsurpassed customer experiences.  As a seasoned technology leader, Cain brings to Couchbase a diverse background across strategy, product development, and sales and is uniquely qualified to scale operations and propel growth globally.  Most recently he served at Veritas Technologies LLC as President of Worldwide Field Operations, leading a 4,200 person team responsible for all aspects of sales, customer retention, channels, services, and support.  Before that, he was Chief Product Officer with full P&L responsibility for their $2.5B business revitalizing the company strategy, increasing engineering efficiency, and delivering growth across the portfolio.  He was instrumental in the separation of Veritas from Symantec and sale to the Carlyle Group.  Cain previously held a variety of senior leadership roles at Symantec and spent a decade at Cisco Systems. 

“I am excited and energized to join the incredibly talented Couchbase team,” said Cain. “Bob and the team have created a highly differentiated technology platform aligned to a critical market transition that is revolutionizing how companies execute their digital transformations.  I welcome the opportunity to build upon Couchbase’s fantastic foundation and success, further growing the brand, fostering a dynamic culture committed to delivering exceptional next-generation customer experiences, and building a world class company.”

“Over the last six years, Couchbase has risen from Silicon Valley start-up to one that has taken a clear leadership position in the NoSQL industry,” said Wiederhold.  “Our focus on delivering mission-critical, enterprise-class database solutions that allow digital businesses to deliver great customer experiences has allowed us to grow by over 50% in 2016 with even greater growth expected in 2017.  I am thrilled to have Matt join the company as CEO to take us through our next phase of growth and excited to work with him to build the next great database company.”

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Mar 27, 2017 – Couchbase Inc., the NoSQL leader, has seen rapid acceleration in enterprise IoT deployments among innovative Fortune 500 companies, including Verizon, GE and Becton Dickinson (BD), as enterprises rush to bring new IoT applications and platforms to market. Bain and Company1, predicts that the IoT ecosystem will continue on this accelerated growth trajectory and reach $470B by 2020 with cloud service providers, analytics and infrastructure software vendors, and IoT-specific software platforms having the most influence over IoT purchases.

Consumers are demanding that the products and services they buy connect to the world around them while businesses simultaneously grapple with capturing, securing, and moving the massive amounts of resulting data. To overcome these data obstacles and deliver exceptional consumer experiences, enterprises are adopting the Couchbase Data Platform to accelerate development and enable personalized, proactive and responsive experiences for their customers.

To help enterprise developers understand critical requirements for creating massively scalable, high-performance connected applications, Couchbase is hosting a webinar with Verizon titled “IoT Everywhere: How Verizon powers fast, scalable enterprise IoT with Couchbase,” on Tuesday, March 28 at 11 a.m. PT (2:00 p.m. ET).

What: WEBINAR – IoT Everywhere (Sponsored by: Couchbase on Database Trends and Applications) 
When: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT 
How: Register to Attend
Who:

• Mohan Umapathy, Director of System /Architecture at Verizon
• Ali LeClerc, Product Marketing Manager, Couchbase
• Stephen Faig, Business Development Manager, Unisphere Research and DBTA (Moderator)

Join this webinar to learn about how Couchbase enables Verizon and its enterprise customers to:

• Support millions of connected devices
• Accelerate time to market for new applications and features
• Maintain always-on, always-active applications
• Implement real-time dashboards, notifications, and alerts
• Receive ad hoc reporting for trend insights and device management

¹ Source: Bain and Company, BRIEF: How Providers Can Succeed in the Internet of Things

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 16, 2017 – Couchbase, Inc., today announced that Forrester Research Inc. recognized the company as a strong performer in its “The Forrester Wave™: In-Memory Databases, Q1 2017.” Forrester identified the 13 most significant companies in the category and evaluated them against 24 criteria. Couchbase received the top scores possible for scalability, ability to execute, open source and licensing and use cases in its first appearance in this specific Forrester Wave™ report.

According to the report, “An in-memory database is not just a nice-to-have option anymore — it has become critical to support next-generation transactions, analytics, and operational insights. . . Today’s in-memory databases are changing the way we build and deliver systems of engagement, and they are transforming the practice of analytics, predictive modeling, and business transaction management.”

“Couchbase operates as a true ‘system of engagement’ database and delivers the foundational in-memory database technology that businesses focused on digital innovation require.” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO at Couchbase. “As enterprises face increasing pressure to deliver high performance, scalable, and simplified data access for their next-generation applications, we are proud to simplify and automate complex challenges for customers. Couchbase is proud to be recognized as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™ report.”

The report cites that “Couchbase offers a scalable NoSQL in-memory database. Couchbase Server, an open source NoSQL key-value and document database, offers in-memory technology that appeals to enterprises that need to support higher performance, multimodel, scale, and simplified data access for next-generation applications. Firms use Couchbase to support social and mobile applications, content and metadata stores, eCommerce, and online gaming applications. Couchbase provides full support for documents, a flexible data model, indexing, full-text search, and MapReduce for real-time analytics. It has some large customers (such as AT&T, eBay, LinkedIn, McGraw-Hill Education, Orbitz, and Tesco PLC) that use the product to support various mission-critical workloads, including operational, analytical, and mixed workloads.”

One such customer is Criteo, who leverages the Couchbase Data Platform to process more than 30 billion ads per day. “Couchbase powers our digital ad platform that requires sub-millisecond response times to handle a billion unique Internet users”, said Nicolas Helleringer, Head of Site Reliability Engineering, Criteo. “We chose Couchbase for its superior memory-oriented architecture that drives high performance at mass scale. In addition, it is also easy to manage and requires little administrative overhead, even with a massive deployment like ours with over 1000 nodes.”

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – February 16, 2017 – Couchbase, Inc., the NoSQL leader, announced today a new release of the Couchbase data platform that powers web, mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications for digital businesses. The enhanced product suite now provides easier global application deployments, advanced security capabilities and greater development flexibility, and includes Couchbase Server 4.6, Couchbase Sync Gateway 1.4, Couchbase Kafka Connector 3.0 and Couchbase Spark Connector 2.0.

Couchbase is seeing increasing demand for its technology that operates as a “system of engagement” database. In use by some of the world’s biggest brands, including Amadeus, Marriott and United Airlines, Couchbase delivers the speed, scalability and flexibility required to power digital business applications. Couchbase makes it simple to build adaptable, responsive always-available applications that scale to meet unpredictable spikes in demand and enable mobile and IoT apps to work offline.

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The Rise of System of Engagement Databases
While traditional system of record databases remain a vital part of data management infrastructure, they were not designed for highly interactive web, mobile and IoT applications. Existing NoSQL databases provided some relief by adding flexibility and scalability but lacked a comprehensive data platform with broad native capabilities that can support these modern workloads at massive scale. Couchbase provides a platform that includes a server database, a native mobile database, a synchronization gateway and Big Data and SQL integrations, delivering a true system of engagement database with the capabilities needed to power the daily activities of today’s modern consumer.

“RDBMS is no longer the only data store in town. Even risk-averse companies are looking at open source and cloud to modernize their application infrastructure,” said Thomas Vidnovic,  Solutions Architect at Marriott. “Marriott leverages Couchbase to enhance Marriott’s reservation system. Reservations is one of the key systems where we engage directly with customers, providing them with a highly responsive, personalized experience. Couchbase gives us a highly reliable and scalable platform to host and access our reservation data.”  

Couchbase Data Platform Highlights

The latest release of the Couchbase data platform includes the following new enhancements:

• Couchbase Server 4.6 – Easier global application deployments, improved application performance, enhanced security options, built-in support for rich data structures including lists, maps, and sets, and integrated .NET Core application development
• Couchbase Sync Gateway 1.4 – Limitless scale for mobile and IoT applications using the new Sync Gateway Accelerator
• Couchbase Kafka Connector 3.0 – Kafka Connect support that provides greater scalability, performance optimizations and streaming reliability between Apache Kafka and other systems, as well as a new Sink Connector, allowing data from Kafka topics to be persisted directly into Couchbase Server
• Couchbase Spark Connector 2.0 – Support for Apache Spark 2.0 and its structured streaming API, offering a better way to continuously analyze operational data, allowing Couchbase to serve as both a Spark Structured Streaming Sink and Source.

“Couchbase continues to push the database innovation envelope with our newest releases, including the addition of hybrid logical clocks for easier global application deployments, and Sync Gateway Accelerator to support high device density as well as numerous enhancements to our query language (N1QL) and query performance,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and products, Couchbase. “With foundational technologies like these, we make it easy to automate the complex challenges that our customers face around managing globally distributed environments, massively scaling mobile and IoT applications on demand, and natively integrating big data solutions like Kafka and Spark with Couchbase.”

“Enterprise CIOs and IT leaders are on the hook to execute on digital business initiatives. They are facing increasing pressure to adapt their systems and applications to meet new requirements for responsiveness, such as engaging customer experiences that are accessible from any platform, ” said Robin Bloor, chief analyst and co-founder at the Bloor Group. “To do this, they need to adopt a system of engagement database like Couchbase’s. It goes beyond transactional data being able to provide the 360-degree view needed to create effective customer engagement and customer experiences.”

“Now more than ever, businesses are depending on streaming data for mission critical applications and analytics,” said Jabari Norton, vice president of business development at Confluent. “By leveraging the Confluent streaming platform and the newest Couchbase Connector powered by the Kafka Connect API, customers can easily set up, manage and monitor scalable, robust data pipelines between any systems in their enterprise.”

“Apache Spark has become mainstream for a growing number of organizations powering data-driven use cases, from fraud detection to personalized shopping experiences” said Kavitha Mariappan, vice president of marketing at Databricks. “We are pleased to see the progress Couchbase has made with their Spark Connectors and the availability of the new Couchbase Notebook, that makes it easier than ever for data scientists and engineers to build and deploy advanced analytics solutions with our just-in-time data platform powered by Apache Spark.”

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 2, 2017: Couchbase, Inc., the leader in NoSQL database technology for Digital Businesses, today announced that Doddle, the click & collect experts, has adopted Couchbase to fuel its digital transformation and growth strategy. Thanks to Couchbase’s ability to seamlessly manage data on mobile devices, Parcelistas (store staff) at Doddle stores can now serve customers on mobile devices whether online or offline, no longer requiring a high-bandwidth fiber or 4G connection. In addition, Doddle can get new stores up and running much more quickly, reducing  time-to-open from six weeks to 14 days or less.

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“The success of our business depends on providing customers with a great experience, every time, and the database plays a pivotal role in this,” said Gary O’Connor, CTO, Doddle. “With plans to grow our store presence tenfold in 2017, transitioning to Couchbase is very strategic for us. We can now open new, smaller-format storefronts faster and maximize the ROI of each new location, without needing the continuous, high-speed connection to a central server that our previous system required. This ensures our teams can continue to serve customers online and offline, providing a more consistent customer experience.”

Doddle’s Couchbase deployment allows Parcelistas to process information such as parcel status, customer details and specific instructions for delivery or return of parcels back to retailers. The move to Couchbase’s mobile technology increases the flexibility of Doddle’s store teams, and by eliminating the need for bulky fixed equipment and connections, Couchbase is supporting Doddle’s ambitious growth plans to open in new retail formats in 2017.

“Doddle has fundamentally disrupted parcel delivery by making it fast, easy and frictionless for people to pick up their online orders and overcome the hassles and growing problem of missed deliveries,” said Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO of Couchbase. “With a mobile and offline-first strategy, Doddle has been able to further transform its operations, ensuring the company continues to delight and surprise customers with amazing service. Couchbase is excited to help Doddle scale operations and fuel the next phase of their  growth.”

Founded in 2014, Doddle makes it easy for consumers to collect and return online shopping from its stores in convenient locations around the UK, which are open early until late. Consumers can chose to make Doddle their delivery address with more than 100 retailers including Amazon and Asos.

Doddle is also expanding to the United States, where 73 percent of consumers express interest in picking up online orders in-store. Its new Powered by Doddle offering, which includes the Couchbase data platform, provides a comprehensive click & collect solution that includes all the software, training, communications and analytics modules U.S. retailers need to grow their click & collect business and associated revenue.

Media Contact:
Jill Reed
Highwire PR for Couchbase
couchbase@highwirepr.com

Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology for Digital Businesses, has been recognized as a winner of TechTarget’s 2017 Modern Mobility Innovation Awards for its role in providing offline and synchronization capabilities to GE’s Predix, its Industrial Internet operating system that connects to industrial assets, collects and analyzes data to deliver insights for optimizing industrial infrastructure and operations.

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“In developing Predix, we knew providing strong mobile capabilities was important, given the remote locations where users need access to Predix, such as on wind farms, oil rigs or in power plants. But we soon learned that offline was critical,” said Michael Hart, director of Predix mobile engineering at GE Digital. “Providing a solution that would work all the time, regardless of location or network availability, became the key challenge we had to solve for in building Predix.”

GE Digital approached Couchbase in search of a technology that would enable offline capabilities in remote locations, giving Predix operators the ability to manage, use and store massive amounts of data regardless of network availability. Predix users require applications and devices to work all the time, with seamless data integration and management, and the ability to sync data from devices to the cloud when the network is available. With Couchbase, GE Digital was able to deliver on these requirements.

The Modern Mobility Innovation Awards recognize exceptionally innovative and successful enterprise mobility projects, demonstrating how organizations that embrace mobility and take advantage of cutting-edge technology can transform their processes and achieve new levels of productivity. 

“We’re thrilled to be recognized by TechTarget for our successful collaboration with GE Digital in creating the platform for the Industrial Internet,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. “Predix is a testament to the Couchbase team’s continued commitment to helping build innovative applications that enterprises need to compete in the digital economy.”

Resources:

• Couchbase Customers
  https://www.couchbase.com/customers/ge/
• Learn more about Couchbase Mobile
  https://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile/
• Couchbase Mobile Developer Portal
  https://www.couchbase.com/developers/mobile/

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Kiley Nichols, MSLGROUP
couchbase@mslgroup.com

Dipiti Borkar, Couchbase
dipti@couchbase.com

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@mslgroup.com

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/

Contact
Kiley Nichols, MSLGROUP
(781) 684-6513
couchbase@mslgroup.com

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.

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●  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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