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Couchbase Redefines the Database to Simplify the Transition from Relational to NoSQL

on June 22, 2016

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.

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Couchbase Announces Support for Docker Containers

on June 20, 2016

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.

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Couchbase Apache Spark Connector Accelerates Time to Insight and Time to Action for Digital Economy Businesses

on June 6, 2016

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.

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“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.

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Couchbase, the Database Company for the Digital Economy, Secures $30 Million in Funding Led by Sorenson Capital

on March 15, 2016

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.

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“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.

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“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.”

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New Release of Couchbase Mobile Gives Enterprise Developers Cutting Edge Data Management Platform for Building Always On Mobile Applications

on February 4, 2016

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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“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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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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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 Supports @WalmartLab’s Release of OneOps Cloud Management to Open Source Community

on January 26, 2016

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.”  

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Couchbase Advances N1QL Delivering 2-3x Faster Query Performance and Full Data Manipulation Support

on December 15, 2015

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 15, 2015 – Couchbase today announced general availability of Couchbase Server 4.1, demonstrating rapid delivery of powerful new functionality and better performance on its landmark 4.0 release. The new release adds full CRUD support, as well as covering indexes and prepared statements to reduce latency of complex queries. It also expands platform support to further accelerate the adoption of Couchbase by large enterprises and the developer community. These improvements are driving upgrades from earlier versions with 20 percent of Couchbase enterprise customers already actively working on version 4.0 to expand the use cases running on Couchbase Server.

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“Couchbase is the only database vendor to bring the power and benefits of SQL to the new JSON data model and marry it with the performance of a distributed architecture that can both scale out and scale up,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering, Couchbase. “This new release makes it easier than ever for developers to build agile enterprise applications on a NoSQL database that has the architecture to operate at any scale.”

“We chose Couchbase to underpin one of our mission-critical applications for several reasons. Its best in class architecture and performance at scale are clear differentiators, but lesser known is that with the introduction of N1QL, its document capabilities make it possible to replace use cases where we’ve previously used relational,” said Suresh Subasinghe, principal architect, enterprise applications architecture, United Airlines. “N1QL’s similarity to SQL makes it easier for us to introduce NoSQL to the enterprise, and the introduction of covering indexes in the 4.1 release significantly increases the performance of N1QL queries, making my team even more excited for what we can do with Couchbase.”

Industry Standard CRUD Operations for NoSQL

In October, Couchbase introduced N1QL, a new SQL-based query language, which makes it easy for developers familiar with SQL to build applications on top of a JSON data model. With the release of Couchbase Server 4.1, Couchbase has extended N1QL and is offering full support for all CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations with industry standard SQL-based N1QL:

  • INSERT allows both singleton and multi-document inserts;
  • UPDATE and DELETE enable the manipulation of a set of documents based on specific criteria. Both of these statements use available indices to efficiently identify and update documents;
  • UPSERT and MERGE statements combine two sets of documents based on given criteria.

Support of CRUD operations through standard SQL syntax makes it exponentially faster for developers to manipulate JSON documents just as simply as they would handle tables with SQL. Additionally, these new N1QL statements are fully supported in Couchbase SDKs, REST APIs, and Simba’s JDBC and ODBC drivers.

“We continue to be impressed with Couchbase’s speed of innovation. By further extending N1QL for support of CRUD, Couchbase is giving SQL developers a faster and easier on-ramp to NoSQL,” says Simba Technologies Chief Technology Officer George Chow. “With the release of Couchbase Server 4.1, the Simba Couchbase ODBC and JDBC drivers now offer full data-manipulation support in either N1QL or SQL syntax, meaning developers can access the Couchbase buckets with N1QL, or read data with the ODBC/JDBC tables via SQL. Additionally, DML queries can operate on either the bucket or table level. This allows for an unprecedented level of query scope control while reducing the number of operations and reducing the amount of network bandwidth required to complete a task.”

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Faster Query Results in Distributed Database Environment

Couchbase Server 4.1 introduces two new features that reduce latency of complex queries in a distributed database environment: covering indexes and prepared statements. These two features bring performance improvements for N1QL queries that make it even easier for developers to build applications and enterprises to expand use cases running on Couchbase Server:

  • Covering Indexes: A covering index is an index that contains all the fields required by a specific query. With a standard index, a query request will first scan the index for data and then spend additional time searching for the right data to complete the query. By using a covering index, only the scan of that covering index is required for data access. The result is lower query latency and a faster performing application.
  • Prepared Statements: A prepared statement enables execution of the same or similar query many times with high efficiency by avoiding repeated query parsing and optimization. Many applications require repeated execution of pre-defined queries with different parameters. Performing these repeated queries as ad-hoc statements requires query parsing, planning and execution each time the query is launched. Using a prepared statement template, where the execution plan is fixed and only specific variables are substituted each time the query is run, removes the overhead computing required to parse and compile an execution plan for these often-repeated queries. The result is lower latency and reduced CPU cycles – and a faster performing application.

“Seenit recently made the jump from Couchbase Server 3.1 to the 4.0 release so we could take advantage of N1QL for our ad-hoc querying needs. So far it’s been great and we’ve managed to release a lot of new features using N1QL that would have previously taken us much longer to develop,” said Dave Starling, chief technology officer at Seenit. “With 4.1, we’ve been able to take this even further and improve the performance for our users using the new covering indexes and prepared statements, as well as develop new features that take advantage of the new CRUD operations.”

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Extended Support for Major Platforms

Couchbase Server 4.1 extends support to Windows 10 and OSX El Capitan. Couchbase Server now has full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Debian Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. For a list of supported versions, visit the Couchbase Developer Portal.

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Database Pioneer Donald D. Chamberlin Joins Couchbase as Technical Advisor

on November 11, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. today named database veteran and co-inventor of the SQL database language Donald D. Chamberlin as a technical advisor to the company. In this role, Chamberlin will collaborate with the Couchbase engineering team on architectural innovations that make it easier for enterprises to deploy new and evolve existing use cases to Couchbase.

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“Don is one of the most recognized and respected names in the database industry. The query language – SQL – that he created has become the de facto language for relational databases,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and products, Couchbase. “His expertise will be a great asset to our engineering team, particularly with regards to our new query language N1QL, which brings SQL to a new data model – JSON. We are excited to collaborate with and learn from a true database legend.”

Chamberlin is most widely known as a co-inventor of SQL, the world’s most widely used and first commercially successful database language. For over 30 years, he worked in IBM’s research division, where he conducted database research for IBM’s DB2 line of relational database products. As an IBM fellow at the Almaden Research Center, he made significant contributions to the development of XQuery, a query and functional programming language now widely used in electronic commerce, data integration and other web-based applications. Chamberlin is also a fellow of the Computer History Museum, an ACM and IEEE fellow, as well as an honorary Ph.D. at the University of Zurich.

“This is an exciting time to be working in database management, as a wave of fresh new ideas is sweeping through our industry,” said Chamberlin. “Couchbase is a leader in developing database technology to meet today’s changing requirements. In this time of rapid innovation, I look forward to working with the talented team of engineers at Couchbase.”

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Couchbase Announces General Availability of its 4.0 Release: Introduces Breakthrough Developer Agility and Scaling Innovations Enabling Broad Enterprise Re-platforming

on October 6, 2015

Couchbase today announced general availability of Couchbase Server 4.0, a new release that enables developers to build a much broader variety of Web, mobile and IoT applications on Couchbase. The release delivers new levels of developer agility, enterprise application scalability and performance, and business insight from data stored in Couchbase. The announcement was made from Couchbase Live New York, where companies including General Electric, Gannett, Marriott International, Cox Automotive, DIRECTV, Nielsen and more are speaking about expanding Couchbase deployments to support a wide range of additional applications and use cases.

Tweet This: GA of @Couchbase Server 4.0 brings unmatched agility, scalability & performance to Web, #mobile & #IoT applications https://bit.ly/1OMzdCe

“Couchbase Server 4.0 is a transformational release. It dramatically increases the types of applications and use cases that Couchbase can support, now with even greater levels of performance and scale,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering, Couchbase. “With innovations such as a our new SQL-based query language, N1QL, and foundational improvements like Global Secondary Indexes, Multi-Dimensional Scaling and Cross Datacenter Replication, we are providing enterprises the breadth of functionality they need to deploy a single distributed database under the majority of their Web, mobile and IoT applications.”

Couchbase N1QL: Agile Development through Flexible Modeling and Powerful Query

Couchbase Server 4.0 introduces a new SQL-based query language, N1QL (pronounced Nickel) that helps developers build enterprise-class applications with less code and greater agility. N1QL is an efficient and complete declarative query language that makes it easy for developers familiar with SQL to build applications on top of a JSON data model that can be extended on demand. Using N1QL, developers can:

  • Develop applications faster by querying data with a familiar SQL-based query language;

  • Develop applications with less code by leveraging a declarative query language to express complex logic executed in the database – instead of writing and executing it within the application;

  • Develop applications with greater agility by creating new indexes and queries without restructuring the data model;

  • Develop applications by reading, writing and querying data in any of the most popular languages and frameworks, with options for asynchronous and reactive data access;

  • Leverage JSON to nest data within a single document or leverage N1QL to model and query data that is stored across multiple documents.

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Better Business Insight with Popular Reporting, Visualization and BI Tools

Couchbase Server 4.0 with N1QL also enables standard SQL-based reporting and data visualization tools to access data stored within Couchbase. Through ODBC and JDBC connectivity provided via Simba drivers, that can work with both the standard SQL-92 and N1QL dialects, enterprises can gain business insight using the most widely adopted BI and data visualization tools, including Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Looker, Qlik and more to access data stored in Couchbase.

Multi-Dimensional Scaling and Global Secondary Indexes: Couchbase Solves Distributed Query Performance Limitations

Couchbase Server 4.0 introduces breakthrough architectural innovations that radically improve query performance in a distributed database: Multi-Dimensional Scaling and Global Secondary Indexes. Multi-Dimensional Scaling, previewed earlier this year, provides a better approach to hardware provisioning by enabling systems to scale up or scale out. With this capability, organizations can assign various workloads to specific hardware resources to meet application performance requirements.

Couchbase Server 4.0 is the first distributed database to support Global Secondary Indexes, which extend the performance and scale gains achieved through Multi-Dimensional Scaling. In a horizontally scaling system, the index is typically spread across every server, which can potentially slow down query execution by creating a broad “scatter/gather” requirement. In Couchbase Server 4.0, Multi-Dimensional Scaling makes it possible for Global Secondary Indexes to be assigned to specific hardware resources. This greatly reduces the magnitude of “scatter/gather,” resulting in significant performance increases of query execution within a distributed system.

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Powerful Global Data Distribution with Cross Datacenter Replication Filtering

Couchbase Server 4.0 extends its industry leading Cross Datacenter Replication (XDCR) functionality with new filtering capabilities. XDCR is used for many purposes, most commonly high availability and disaster recovery. With the new filtering functionality, subsets of data can be ‘filtered’ for geographic replication without requiring the entire data set to be replicated between datacenters. This delivers a broad set of benefits including making data available to geographically distributed locations with low latency, minimizing network traffic by replicating only the data relevant to a specific geography and the ability to replicate relevant data between private datacenters, public clouds, or both to leverage hybrid cloud infrastructure.

By combining the power of N1QL for application development and business insight, with architectural innovations in Multi-Dimensional Scaling, Secondary Indexes and XDCR, Couchbase Server 4.0 delivers a new level of functionality and performance for distributed architectures that will revolutionize enterprise application development. Developers building Web, mobile and IoT applications for Digital Economy businesses can get started today by downloading Couchbase Server 4.0 and visiting the Couchbase Developer Portal.

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Customer Comments on the News

“CenterEdge delivers the best management solution for the amusement, entertainment, and FEC industries. Our business is growing fast and we need an infrastructure that is agile and can operate at any scale,” said Dan Cutler, director of software, CenterEdge Software. “We use Couchbase as a multi model NoSQL solution, from cache to database. CenterEdge started with Couchbase as a cache to improve SQL Server’s performance. Today we’re rolling out additional use cases with N1QL. The biggest advantages of N1QL are simplifying complex queries and increasing developer productivity by easily creating new indexes that are highly flexible and reusable.”

“HomeNet provides the backbone of Cox Automotive’s vehicle merchandising pipeline, which currently processes anywhere from 50 to 100 million vehicles a day. We use some of the most powerful SQL Server hardware you can buy, but we rely on the speed, flexibility, and reliability of Couchbase to help us meet our high-throughput, non-transactional, data requirements,” said Tony Selke, director of product engineering of HomeNet Automotive, a division of Cox Automotive. “What is most exciting to us, is that with Couchbase we started by solving a single problem: speed. With the introduction of new features like XDCR and N1QL, coupled with its unmatched operational support, Couchbase has become our preferred NoSQL solution.”

“Gannett is in the midst of a large transition to a cloud-based infrastructure. From the beginning, Couchbase has been an integral part of this effort,” said Alon Motro, content and platform services manager, Gannett. “It has helped us replace expensive SQL Server instances, vastly improve our performance metrics and has simplified the way we deliver our stories. We are very excited to start using Couchbase Server 4.0 and have already started looking at ways we can take advantage of N1QL in our Publishing Systems.”

“Over the past few years at Nielsen, we experienced massive growth that our relational system couldn’t support. We needed a platform that could sift through massive datasets quickly and effectively, be elastic to accommodate new data growth with ease and had the ability to run analytics,” said Arvind Jade, architect leader, Nielsen. Govindarajan Raghunathapuram, solutions architect at Nielsen, added, “We turned to Couchbase for its fast performance and powerful scaling capabilities. With Couchbase Server 4.0, we’ve been able to use N1QL to get deep analytics from our platform, which has delivered a 50 percent boost in response time.”

Analyst Comments on the News

“Our research suggests that enterprises are making strategic investments in more agile, multi-model databases that serve a variety of needs that existing relational databases were never designed for,” commented Matt Aslett, research director, data platforms and analytics, 451 Research. “New features such as N1QL, Multi-Dimensional Scaling and Secondary Indexes means that Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses a wider range of use cases, encouraging expanded enterprise adoption of NoSQL.” 

“Enterprises are increasingly turning to NoSQL databases for their ability to handle diverse and fast-changing data,” says Doug Henschen, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “With its N1QL and Multi-Dimensional Scaling capabilities, Couchbase Server 4.0 brings SQL-like querying and flexible scalability to the NoSQL market.”

“Under pressure to build applications for the faster than ever changing market conditions, developers look for any boost in productivity they can grasp,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “Building more solution with less code is always a desirable outcome for next generation applications projects. Next generation databases make it easier for developers to deliver at the right time, the right quality and the required functionality.”

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Longtime Database Thought Leader Mike Carey Joins Couchbase as Consulting Chief Architect

on August 26, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. today announced that University of California, Irvine Professor of Information and Computer Sciences Mike Carey has joined the company as a consulting chief architect. Mike is commencing a sabbatical from the University of California, Irvine, during which time he will join the Couchbase engineering leadership as a consultant focused on the database for the next generation data model. 

“Mike is a genuine thought leader in the database space, with a deep understanding of the issues from an academic perspective, as well as a proven track record in creating products that address market needs. We share a vision for the architecture of next-generation database management systems, and his work on AsterixDB – a big data management system more than three years in development – is complementary to the design of Couchbase Server,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and products, Couchbase. “The addition of Mike to the Couchbase team will accelerate the delivery of further innovations and significantly extend our lead in NoSQL and multi-model database software.”

Carey has been recognized as a leading academic in the field of data management and distributed computing design for more than 30 years. He is currently professor of information and computer sciences at University of California, Irvine. Prior to rejoining academia in 2008, he worked at BEA Systems as chief architect and an engineering director for the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform team. Carey also spent a number of years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a database researcher and manager at IBM Almaden and as a fellow at e-commerce software startup Propel Software. Carey is an ACM fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. His current research interests are centered around data-intensive computing and scalable data management.

“I am extremely impressed by Couchbase Server. The architecture and distributed design are far ahead of what other NoSQL vendors have done,” said Carey. “In the coming 4.0 release, Couchbase is delivering a product that, for the first time, makes it possible to query distributed data with the power of a traditional database – regardless of where the data sits. This could change the entire NoSQL and relational database industry.”

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Couchbase Continues to Widen Gap with MongoDB and Oracle as the Enterprise NoSQL Leader

on July 29, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. added new customers and expanded business with existing customers in the second quarter of 2015. The company sees businesses around the world accelerating adoption of NoSQL technology for mission critical Web, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Additionally, at its annual user conference at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, the company launched the beta release of Couchbase Server 4.0, which includes N1QL (pronounced ‘Nickel’), Couchbase’s new query language that brings the power of SQL to JSON.

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“NoSQL database adoption is quickly evolving beyond developer-led projects, to enterprise deployments supporting mission critical applications,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO at Couchbase. “Businesses are seeing that Web, mobile and IoT applications running on NoSQL deliver better performance and more flexibility. As a result, enterprises are embracing NoSQL for development of new applications, while replacing relational with NoSQL in many existing applications that require high performance, scalability and data flexibility.”

Couchbase second quarter highlights

  • New customer wins and expanded contracts at existing accounts: Q2 showed continued sales momentum around the world, with especially strong business in North America and Europe. Couchbase added new customers at F500 companies including AstraZeneca, Comptel, General Electric Software, Dixons, Intel, Office Depot, Schroders Symantec and Visa. Couchbase also significantly expanded business at existing accounts including Activision Blizzard, Amadeus, Cisco, DIRECTV, eBay, Factset, Neiman Marcus, Nuance, PayPal, Sizmek, Starhub and WebMD. 

  • Couchbase Connect at Levi’s Stadium: In June, Couchbase hosted its annual user conference, Couchbase Connect, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The conference attracted more than 1,000 attendees in person and more than 11,000 unique Livestream viewers. Sessions from the event are available online here.

  • Beta release of Couchbase Server 4.0: During Couchbase Connect, Couchbase announced the beta release of Couchbase Server 4.0. This new release will include the introduction of N1QL, which extends familiar constructs of SQL to the flexibility of JSON, making it easier for relational and NoSQL developers to build Web, mobile and IoT applications.

  • Partnerships with BI, reporting and ETL vendors: N1QL will further accelerate adoption of NoSQL in the enterprise by making access to data stored in Couchbase Server easy and efficient. N1QL is fully compatible with the SQL ecosystem via connectors and standard JDBC/ODBC drivers. This allows enterprises for the first time ever to connect popular ETL, reporting and BI tools to Couchbase Server and in turn is building massive momentum in the Couchbase ISV ecosystem, as companies like Avalon LLC, Looker, Simba Technologies, Informatica, Tableau and Metanautix partner with Couchbase to provide deeper, supported integrations.

  • Google Benchmark: Couchbase continues to outperform Cassandra and MongoDB in high-scale use cases. In a Google benchmark released in May, Couchbase Server 3.0 sustained 1.1 million writes per second with very low latency on Google Cloud Platform, using just 50 nodes, while Cassandra required 300 nodes. The results show that to sustain 1 million writes per second on Couchbase would cost 83 percent less than what it does on Cassandra –  $56 per hour for Couchbase compared with $330 per hour for Cassandra.

Former Oracle CFO and Executive Vice President, Jeff Epstein Joins Couchbase, Inc. Board of Directors As Independent Director

on July 13, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. today announced that Jeff Epstein has joined its board of directors as an independent board member. Epstein, former chief financial officer (CFO) of Oracle Corporation, has decades of experience leading financial operations at several of the biggest companies in the world. His background in the database market and management experience at large publicly traded companies as well as pre-IPO start-ups make him an ideal advisor to foster Couchbase’s rapidly growing business.

“Jeff Epstein joins Couchbase as our second independent board director. This appointment is another important step in on our journey to build a large, sustainable business that is a leader in the database industry,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Jeff’s experience in building global businesses will be instrumental to helping Couchbase establish leadership in the $35 billion database market.”

Epstein has an impressive track record of growing global businesses. In addition to serving as the CFO of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, he has been the CFO of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS), and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group.

“Couchbase has an opportunity to build a multi-billion dollar business. There is a massive technology shift happening as enterprises around the world deploy new applications that are built on modern, faster, more flexible NoSQL databases,” said Epstein. “Couchbase is quickly emerging as the database of choice for these mission critical Web, mobile and IoT applications. I am thrilled to be part of the team that will guide and grow Couchbase as it continues to build leadership in the database market.”

Epstein is an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Epstein also serves on the boards of directors of Kaiser Permanente, The Priceline Group, Shutterstock, Global Eagle Entertainment and several private companies.

Epstein holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a B.A. from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

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100,000 Developers Adopt Couchbase Mobile

on June 25, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. today announced massive momentum for its NoSQL mobile products including more than 100,000 developers in its community, adoption by large enterprises and a rapidly growing ecosystem of systems integrators and resellers. Since its introduction in May 2014, Couchbase Mobile, has powered the transition to the next phase of mobile app development: a new generation of mobile apps that work with or without a network connection. 

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“The day is quickly arriving when mobile apps will only meet user expectations by delivering the same experience offline as they do online. We see a huge shift in the market as app developers and large enterprises adopt this mindset and only build apps that work regardless of connectivity,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO at Couchbase. “The reason for Couchbase Mobile’s accelerated success is simple: it makes it easy for developers to build the new generation of mobile apps. And our performance and ease of use advantage make Couchbase uniquely positioned to take advantage of this opportunity.”

Product Innovation

Couchbase Mobile delivers a solution that enables developers to quickly build always-available, always-responsive mobile applications. Couchbase Mobile includes three components: Couchbase Lite, Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server. Taken together, these products provide developers with a powerful, new platform for building robust and network-independent mobile apps, dramatically reducing the code needed to manage data synchronization and substantially accelerating time to market.

Couchbase also announced general availability for Couchbase Mobile 1.1. This new release introduces preview support for ForestDB, bringing the next-generation Couchbase storage engine to mobile. Additionally, the Couchbase Mobile 1.1 release adds change notification capabilities to the cloud database. Using change notifications, or web hooks, developers no longer have to write custom code to poll for changes within either the cloud or device database. Now, when data is changed in either database, external services and systems are notified and can run the appropriate application logic. This important functionality saves developers significant time by reducing the amount of code they need to write to maintain data integrity in both the cloud and the device, which helps them get their applications to market faster.

Couchbase continues to invest in making Couchbase Mobile accessible to developers building any kind of application on any platform. Over the past year Couchbase Mobile has released support for all major operating systems and platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, Linux, Xamarin, Unity, Microsoft .NET, Adobe PhoneGap and more. The effort to ensure that Couchbase Mobile runs on every major platform and framework makes it easier for mobile app developers to leverage Couchbase Mobile in their NoSQL data management solution.

Growing Ecosystem

The ecosystem around mobile application development is particularly excited about the introduction of Couchbase Mobile. Since it was introduced last year, system integrators, ISVs and VARs from around the world have partnered with Couchbase to make Couchbase Mobile their solution of choice for building mobile applications. Partners for Couchbase Mobile include Cybervision, Firefly, Gimbal, Hitcents, Open Systems Technologies (OST), Telerik, Think Ahead Software, TribeMedia, Unity and Xamarin.

Tweet This: Ecosystem for @Couchbase mobile grows w/ offline-first mobile app dev. Partners include @Xamarin @Unity @Hitcents @OpenSystemsTech +more.

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“Over the last 30 years, Ryanair has experienced exponential growth. We continue to transform the landscape of low-cost travel throughout Europe and beyond,” said Vladimir Atanasov, lead developer, Ryanair. “Our latest initiative to improve the customer experience, led us to Couchbase Mobile. Since we launched our new mobile app supported by Couchbase, we have increased app performance and decreased flight-booking times from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. Couchbase Mobile has helped us achieve our user experience goals.”

“Our customers like BBC Earth, Bacardi, Unilever, and Hilton Hotels need to be able to capture video footage wherever they are – sometimes, that’s literally in the middle of nowhere,” said Dave Starling, chief technology officer, Seenit. “We’re a small startup, and Couchbase Mobile enables our developers to focus on building great features for our customers instead of having to solve problems like offline and sync.”

“We evaluated several offerings, including MongoDB and FeedHenry, but only Couchbase Mobile enables our app to be fully functional whether it is online or offline. This is really a game changer for us,” said Catherine Woolgar, chief technology officer and co-founder, SmartTrade App. “Our evaluation showed that only Couchbase could provide the mobile components, fast replication and scalability we need. Couchbase is also able to provide us with the level of community support we were after – both now as we are deploying the solution and in the future as we look to adopt Couchbase N1QL for increased responsiveness.”

“With Couchbase Mobile, developers can easily deliver beautiful apps that work online and offline,” said Macy Mills, director of strategic partnerships at Hitcents, the mobile game and app development company behind Tom Hanks’ Hanx Writer and Draw a Stickman: EPIC. “Couchbase Mobile enables the game development community, including Hitcents, to more easily build multi-platform games and worry less about coding for data management or synchronization. This is a game changer.”

“At OST, we continue to see our clients allocating more of their strategic investments into mobile solutions,” said Brian Anderson, business development manager, App Dev, OST. “Online and offline capabilities have become an expectation for most enterprise mobile applications. We see Couchbase as a leader in the ability for us to build this capability into solutions. We believe Couchbase provides a compelling story for online / offline mobile solutions that are capable of integrating with existing enterprise system investments. In addition, we see NoSQL technology as a strong growth area within our customer base. We are excited to partner with Couchbase on this future.”

“By using Couchbase Lite with .NET and Xamarin, developers can leverage great features such as offline storage, high-performance queries, and seamless syncing from 100% shared code in Xamarin, iOS, Xamarin, Android and .NET projects,” said Mike Bluestein, senior mobile architect at Think Ahead Software. “The easy to use integration with either Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio makes getting started a breeze.”

“Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile represent a critical part of our real-time content management system architecture, allowing us to build and deploy our applications with advanced synchronization features and infinite scalability built in from the ground up,” said Travis James, TribeMedia chief technology officer. “This enables us to spend more time focused on solutions for our customers and less on the details of their location and access to connectivity. It just works.”

“Founded and based in the Silicon Valley for over 25 years, Xoriant has been privy to, and a key partner in the life cycle of numerous successful technologies from their inception within cutting-edge start-ups to their adoption in major enterprises,” said Ravi Viswanath, senior vice president at Xoriant Corporation. “We are excited to partner with Couchbase. We believe its technology, with key high-performance and high-availability features, as well as its mobile presence and analytics capabilities, can be mutually synergistic with Xoriant’s Mobility, Big Data, Analytics, Managed Security and Monitoring Services offerings. Xoriant looks forward to also leverage our current partnership and expertise with Xamarin and the consequent three-way partnership with Couchbase, to immediately help customers take advantage of Couchbase across the universe of mobile devices.”

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Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra and MongoDB Among Developers to Benefit from Breakthrough Query Language, Couchbase N1QL

on June 3, 2015

Couchbase, Inc. is adding fuel to the NoSQL fire. At its user conference, Couchbase Connect, happening now at Levi’s Stadium, the company announced beta for Couchbase Server 4.0 and provided thousands of attendees a glimpse into its breakthrough query language: N1QL: SQL for JSON. N1QL (pronounced Nickel) is the world’s first comprehensive declarative query language that combines the power of SQL with the flexibility of JSON. This makes it faster and easier for developers to build enterprise Web, mobile and IoT applications on top of the world’s most scalable NoSQL database: Couchbase Server.

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“With the introduction of N1QL, we are the first NoSQL vendor to offer a query language for NoSQL databases that is based on SQL,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO at Couchbase. “This makes it easy for enterprises to leverage their workforce knowledge and existing investments in the massive SQL ecosystem, against the performance and scale of NoSQL. N1QL will accelerate adoption of NoSQL as the standard database for enterprise Web, mobile and IoT applications.”

“N1QL brings the power of SQL to the document data model, which removes one of the biggest barriers to broader enterprise adoption of NoSQL. Until now, developers have had to make a choice when picking a database,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, products and engineering, Couchbase. “They could leverage the power of standard SQL, but be constrained by a rigid relational model, or develop on a flexible JSON data model, but accept query limitations that hinder development of rich applications. N1QL eliminates that compromise. With N1QL, Couchbase Server adds ease of application development to its proven scalability and performance leadership.”

Why SQL for NoSQL?

SQL has been the database industry’s standard query language for more than 40 years. Millions of developers around the world building scalable, enterprise applications today are using SQL either directly or indirectly through application development frameworks. By leveraging existing SQL constructs, N1QL will be familiar and easy for developers to adopt.

While SQL delivers strong query power, the rigid schema requirements of traditional databases have been a roadblock to releasing fast, scalable and responsive Web and mobile applications. JSON data models remove these limitations, but until now, NoSQL databases have lacked a standard rich query language that is familiar and easy to use. N1QL changes all that by extending SQL, recognized by virtually every developer in the world, to JSON, the industry standard data model for Web, mobile and IoT applications. 

“NoSQL systems have proven their value in the enterprise with ease of development, performance and scalability, but developers still need a query language that lets them build applications that require complex queries on semi-structured data,” said University of California, San Diego computer science and engineering professor Yannis Papakonstantinou. “UCSD defined SQL++ to provide the industry with specifications for a SQL backwards-compatible declarative language that works on semi-structured data. N1QL is consistent with our specification – it gives developers a fully declarative and SQL-compatible query language to build applications that leverage the agility of JSON. We think N1QL will propel NoSQL adoption just as SQL originally propelled Relational Database Management System adoption.”

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N1QL Improves Developer Agility  

Developers need agility. They want to build rich applications that utilize a wide variety of data without the rigid limitations of relational databases, but they also want to query the data in ways that SQL has traditionally enabled.

N1QL gives developers access to the full power of SQL to query and transform semi-structured JSON data in anyway the application requires. This includes the ability to build a flexible JSON data model consisting of multiple documents that can be queried via JOINS, and can NEST or UNNEST documents to leverage the relationships among data. There is no longer a need to create a single document to query JSON data.

Additionally, N1QL is accessible via a developer’s preferred development framework, whether that is Spring, LINQ, Ottoman or something else. Since the application processes query results directly as streams of JSON documents, there is no longer an impedance mismatch and no need for a complex translation layer.

“Roomlia has been testing Couchbase N1QL and we’ve already noticed many advantages – especially with the ability to use ODBC connector for real-time data access,” said Vince Valenti, CTO, Roomlia. “We do reporting and BI with Microsoft Excel and Bi360, and N1QL makes it fast and easy to access data stored in Couchbase Server. That is just the beginning – N1QL has created the perfect marriage of Couchbase NoSQL databases and traditional RDBMS SQL queries to create the proverbial “paradigm shift” in way companies think of NoSQL databases.”

N1QL Drives Couchbase Ecosystem

N1QL will further accelerate adoption of NoSQL in the enterprise by making access to data stored in Couchbase Server easy and efficient. N1QL has full compatibility with the SQL ecosystem via connectors and standard JDBC / ODBC drivers. This allows enterprises for the first time ever to connect popular ETL, reporting and BI tools to Couchbase Server, and in turn is building massive momentum in the Couchbase ISV ecosystem as companies like Avalon LLC., Informatica, Looker, Metanautix, Simba Technologies and Tableau partner with Couchbase to provide deeper, supported integrations.

Tweet This: Couchbase partner ecosystem grows with N1QL: @avalonconsult, @InformaticaCorp, @LookerData, @metanautix, @SimbaTech & @tableau #CBConnect

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N1QL Opens Couchbase Server to Massive SQL Ecosystem

on June 3, 2015

Industry heavyweights are announcing support for Couchbase N1QL (pronounced Nickel), a comprehensive declarative query language that combines the power of SQL with the flexibility of a document database. Technology leaders including Avalon LLC., Informatica, Looker, Metanautix, Simba Technologies and Tableau have partnered with Couchbase to build connectors and integrations that leverage N1QL. Couchbase today announced the beta release of N1QL from its user conference, Couchbase Connect, attended by more than 3,000 people. See accompanying release “Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra and MongoDB Among Developers to Benefit from Breakthrough Query Language, Couchbase N1QL.”

Tweet This: Couchbase partner ecosystem grows with N1QL: @avalonconsult, @InformaticaCorp, @LookerData, @metanautix, @SimbaTech & @tableau #CBConnect

“We used SQL as the starting point for N1QL because for the past 40 years, SQL has been the standard language for developing enterprise applications. Enterprise workforces are familiar with SQL, and SIs and ISVs around the world build applications on SQL,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO at Couchbase. “By creating a language that is fully declarative and SQL compatible, we make it much easier for enterprises to fit Couchbase Server into their diverse application architectures. Working with our partners will only make it easier for enterprises to build Web, mobile and IoT applications on Couchbase Server, which is consistently proven to be the most scalable, high performing NoSQL database available.”

Quotes on Couchbase N1QL

Avalon, LLC.

“Enterprises engage Avalon for our deep understanding of enterprise NoSQL solutions. We recommend Couchbase Server to organizations looking to build disruptive solutions for competitive advantage,” said Avalon Principal Evangelist and NoSQL author Kurt Cagle. “I’m particularly excited by the introduction of N1QL – this new query language is easy to understand and work with to search and generate JSON–especially for people with a SQL background. Most importantly, it gives Couchbase a powerful query language that all NoSQL databases should have, but don’t.”

Looker

“The Looker Connector for Couchbase makes it easier for organizations to perform near real time analytics on enterprise data that is critical to corporate growth,” said Frank Bien, CEO at Looker. “Couchbase Server with N1QL will change the game for direct access to data within NoSQL, and without moving the data first. N1QL makes operational analytics and insights possible for the enterprise to access and transform data by querying Couchbase Server through a familiar SQL interface – this eliminates one of the major barriers to using NoSQL for mission-critical applications.”

Informatica

“Increasingly, enterprises are adopting NoSQL to support mission-critical applications – which means data stored in NoSQL has to be accessible by the rest of the enterprise ecosystem,” said Ronen Schwartz, vice president and general manager, Informatica Cloud, Informatica. “With N1QL, Couchbase is delivering a familiar SQL-like interface that makes it faster and easier to access, query and report on data from the Couchbase Server. Together, Informatica and Couchbase are helping customers better transform, manage and integrate data across the enterprise and in the cloud.”

Metanautix

“As data silos proliferate in the enterprise, NoSQL is playing a growing role in the data supply chain. That’s why we’re thrilled to be working with Couchbase to enable the integration of NoSQL with traditional SQL for data of any size, location and format,” said Theo Vassilakis CEO and co-founder of Metanautix. “The launch of N1QL not only accelerates the growth of the Couchbase eco-system, but it also makes the Couchbase Server an accessible enterprise data source that can be queried, connected to and reported on by Metanautix Quest for integration with traditional Business Intelligence.”

Simba Technologies

“We are proud to be the partner chosen by Couchbase to build and distribute the ODBC and JDBC drivers that connect directly to Couchbase data,” says Simba Technologies CEO Amyn Rajan. “Couchbase’s N1QL release takes unstructured-data query capability to new levels of performance and ease, and Simba’s high-performance SQL connectors are now all the faster because N1QL enables them to push functionality to the Couchbase server.”

Tableau

“We are excited to work with Couchbase to bring customers an easy-to-use connection to directly analyze unstructured data like enterprise Web logs, mobile and sensor data, without having to transform it,” said Jeff Feng, product manager at Tableau. “This promotes agility and time-to-value while reducing the burden on IT.”

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