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Mountain View, CA – October 6, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced general availability of the Couchbase Hadoop Connector for Cloudera Enterprise 5.  This new integration simplifies the development and management of big data infrastructure in the enterprise.

“Big data’s impact on mission critical applications is accelerating and driving enterprises’ need for solutions that are capable of scaling to massive workloads,” said Rod Hamlin, Vice President of Business Development, Couchbase. “Our partnership with Cloudera brings the best enterprise class big data management technologies – NoSQL and Hadoop – together to make it easier and faster for businesses to power mission critical applications and leverage the data from those applications for greater business intelligence.”

The Couchbase Hadoop Connector, which leverages Sqoop, makes it easier for organizations to have interoperability between Couchbase Server and Cloudera. The integration leverages Couchbase Server’s data streaming facilities to be able to quickly import or export data to Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) from Couchbase with regular updates, or scheduled updates, through Apache Oozie managed jobs.  

Couchbase Server’s proven high performance and the design of the connector ensure high throughput, which in turn allows real-time answers on the bigger questions businesses are asking of their data. With the integration, data is streamed in either direction between Couchbase Server and Hadoop. The product integration enables enterprises to use any of the engines – Impala, Spark, Cloudera Search, Hive or others that are part of an enterprise data hub to analyze data. The connector is certified on Cloudera 5 and Couchbase Server 2.5 and 3.0.

“The certification of Couchbase on Cloudera Enterprise 5 enables Couchbase customers to leverage the benefits of an integrated Cloudera and Couchbase solution,” said Tim Stevens, Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, Cloudera. “By partnering with Couchbase, we can offer companies the flexibility of building an enterprise data hub using Cloudera as the Hadoop distribution of choice to merge real-time, transactional data with large-scale analytics.”

Strata + Hadoop World Conference

Couchbase is a sponsor of this month’s Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City, and will be showcasing the Couchbase Hadoop Connector in the partner pavilion.

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Server 3.0
• SDK 2.0
• ForestDB
• 2014 NoSQL High Performance Benchmark
• Wipro Partnership
• Simba Partnership
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, CA – October 6, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the release of its 2.0

SDKs.  The 2.0 releases include Couchbase SDKs for C, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby making it easy for developers using the most popular programming languages to build scalable and high performance next generation applications.  Today, Couchbase also announced the release of Couchbase Server 3.0.

“Providing a robust set of SDKs that take advantage of the most advanced development models is critical to our ability to become the NoSQL database of choice for developers building high performance applications,” said Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President Couchbase Products and Engineering.  “The 2.0 releases represent more than a year of work not only from our engineers, but the open source communities that actively contribute to making our SDKs best in class.  We think developers are going to be delighted by new capabilities like support for reactive programming in Java, the ability to quickly build high performing web scale applications, and native support for JSON objects.”

Making it Easier for Developers to Build High Performance NoSQL Applications

The 2.0 SDKs give developers building on Couchbase Server modern new tools that leverage the most innovative advances in application development.   One of the most exciting integrations in the release is support for the developer preview of Couchbase’s next generation query language, N1QL. This language provides the ability to perform SQL like queries against Couchbase Server, the world’s fastest NoSQL database.   All of the Couchbase 2.0 SDKs include support for the developer preview of N1QL, so developers can begin to build fluency with the N1QL language.

Additionally the 2.0 SDKs include:

• Consistent developer experience: delivering a consistent developer experience across all platforms makes it easy for developers who work in multiple languages to build applications on Couchbase regardless of which language they are using.  In the 2.0 SDKs the commands and methods are unified across all developer platforms.
• Native support for JSON objects: when working in any SDK, native JSON object types are supported, eliminating the requirement for third party libraries while maintaining the flexibility Couchbase has always had to support other data types.
• Improved Connection Management: the 2.0 SDKs use fewer resources to communicate with Couchbase.  Connections are more intelligently administered and better-managed extending Couchbase’s significant performance lead in high performance operations.
• Framework Integrations: Couchbase SDKs include support for Spring Framework and ASP.NET alongside Node.js frameworks under active development in the Couchbase Open Source community.

SDK Investment in Native Languages

In addition to the new capabilities cutting across all SDKs, each supported programming language’s developer API has advanced. Couchbase is the first NoSQL vendor to provide support for native reactive programming – a completely event driven programming model that eliminates futures and callbacks, and provides a more efficient model for development.  Support for reactive programming gives Java developers the ability to quickly and easily code highly scalable applications and bring applications to market faster.

Figure 1:

Couchbase Java SDK 2.0 provides an elegant Java document database interface and a powerful, easy to understand, reactive programming model

“We are living in an age where traditional IT disciplines are falling apart. Businesses need to be reactive because they can’t predict the future and they need new technical architectures to support unexpected change,” said James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk. “Agile, bursty, lean – that’s the future of business. Developers need to support this by building agile, high performance applications. Couchbase’s new SDKs, including their support for Reactive Java, are a great tool for forward thinking developers to build the applications of the future.”

The 2.0 Couchbase SDK for .NET implements a bulk API, which makes it much more efficient to read and update large amounts of data.  The .NET version also includes a new bucket management ability that administers Couchbase buckets within .NET applications. The 2.0 SDKs also extend Couchbase’s lead in supporting developers building in Node.js and PHP with a document-oriented programming model, core IO enhancements through updated C libcouchbase, better connection management and error handling as well as the ability to query streaming views – delivering ultra high performance query-ability and throughput.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – October 6, 2014 – Today Simba Technologies Inc.®, the worldwide leader in standards-based connectivity solutions for relational and multi-dimensional data, and Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, announced a joint partnership to deliver ODBC and JDBC connectivity for Couchbase Server. Under terms of the agreement, Couchbase selected Simba Technologies to build ODBC 3.8 and JDBC 4.0 connectivity drivers for the Couchbase NoSQL database.

“Simba’s ODBC and JDBC drivers will bring a new level of fast, seamless connectivity to Couchbase Server,” said Rod Hamlin, Vice President of Global Business Development. “This integration will make it easier for data analysts—whether they’re using Tableau, Excel, QlikView, SAP Lumira, or any other BI app—to quickly access data in Couchbase Server.”

The Couchbase-Simba Technologies partnership highlights the growing importance of connectivity in the NoSQL world: Couchbase customers will be able to access their NoSQL data—and more importantly, analyze, report, and act upon it—from their business intelligence tools of choice. Simba’s ODBC and JDBC connectors allow users to make quick analytic insights and to leverage back-end data-source high-performance calculation capabilities. The Simba SQL-92 engine supports aggregations, joins, scalar functions, sub-queries, and limits DDL. Additionally, it will support N1QL, Couchbase’s SQL-like query language currently in developer preview.

“Couchbase is an innovator in the NoSQL and document database space,” says Simba Technologies CEO Amyn Rajan. “And now Couchbase customers can take advantage of the best connectivity, whether they’re using ODBC or JDBC.”

“The Simba ODBC driver for Couchbase will provide full support for the latest ODBC 3.8 connectivity standard—a standard that Simba originally co-developed with Microsoft,” notes Simba Technologies CTO George Chow. “For Couchbase, that will represent better interoperability with any and all application platforms.”

Simba Technologies engineer Kyle Porter is a featured speaker at the Couchbase Connect conference October 6 and 7. Learn more here: https://www.couchbase.com/connect/.

Simba Technologies’ connectivity drivers are available for individual, enterprise, and OEM licensing. For more information and to sign up for a free trial, visit www.simba.com/connectors.

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Server 3.0
• SDK 2.0
• ForestDB
• 2014 NoSQL High Performance Benchmark
• Wipro Partnership
• Cloudera certification
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

About Simba Technologies Inc.

Simba Technologies (www.simba.com, @SimbaTech) is the recognized world leader in standards-based data access and analytics products and solutions for both relational and multi-dimensional data sources. Simba provides data connectivity solutions to many of the world’s leading companies on various platforms, including Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux and many mobile device platforms. Simba’s data connectivity products support multiple interfaces, including ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO), XML for Analysis (XMLA), ADO, ADO.NET, ADOMD and ADOMD.NET.

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Mountain View, CA – October 6, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced a global system integrator and reseller agreement with Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company.  The partnership will enable both Couchbase and Wipro to better serve the increasing global demand for enterprise class NoSQL to support mission critical applications and big data needs of enterprise customers in industry sectors such as energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and telecommunications.

“As a global leader in helping enterprises build competitive advantage through technology, Wipro partners with providers who can deliver reliable, best in class enterprise solutions,” said Nitin Narkhede, General Manager, Chief Technology Office, Wipro Limited. “Across a growing segment of our customers we are seeing an increasing demand for scalable NoSQL database technology.  Our partnership with Couchbase will enable enterprises around the world to deploy Couchbase’s NoSQL database to address the increasingly complex big data requirements of today’s businesses.”

Under this agreement, Wipro will set-up a Couchbase Center of Excellence where specialists are trained on implementing and building business solutions on Couchbase NoSQL technology. Additionally, Wipro will resell Couchbase software to its enterprise customers in industry sectors it serves.

“Our partnership with Wipro comes at a pivotal moment in the NoSQL market.  Enterprises are increasingly moving beyond small NoSQL projects to mission critical deployments, that require scalable, reliable and high performing NoSQL that can support a broad variety of use cases,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase. “At companies like AT&T, BSkyB, eBay, PayPal and Tesco, Couchbase has proven that it can support robust enterprise requirements. Partnering with Wipro will strengthen our global reach and build our resources for the data management industry.”

To learn more about Couchbase partnerships, visit www.couchbase.com/partners/.

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Server 3.0
• SDK 2.0
• ForestDB
• 2014 NoSQL High Performance Benchmark
• Simba Partnership
• Cloudera certification
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

About Wipro Ltd.

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading information technology, consulting and business process services company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of “Business through Technology” – helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation, and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro has a workforce of over 140,000, serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com

Mountain View, Calif. – September 11, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced final results of an independent NoSQL vendor comparison by Thumbtack Technology, Inc., an industry leader in NoSQL consulting services. The study found that when measured against typical workloads on some of the most common use cases, Couchbase consistently outperformed the competition in both performance and scalability, with remarkably higher throughput and lower latency on less hardware than other NoSQL solutions.

“More enterprises are choosing Couchbase Server for mission critical applications, not only because it significantly outperforms MongoDB and Cassandra, but also because it requires less hardware to do so,” said Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering, Couchbase.  “Our outstanding performance is a direct result of our masterless, auto-sharded shared nothing architecture. Combined with our memory and network centric data access philosophy, Couchbase Server is uniquely suited to perform at scale.”

Benchmark results

In the recent benchmark, Couchbase dominated in both performance and scalability, for read intensive and balanced workloads, demonstrating significantly higher throughput and lower latency over MongoDB and DataStax Enterprise.  Delivering unparalleled levels of speed during the read heavy workload, Couchbase peaked at 1.71 million ops/second in comparison to MongoDB at 227 thousand ops/second and DataStax Enterprise at 99 thousand ops/second.  While operating at this higher level of throughput, Couchbase also surpassed both vendors in read-write performance, demonstrating lower latency while using less hardware.

Additional results from the benchmark are below:

• Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 7x more than MongoDB
• Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 17x more than DataStax Enterprise
• Couchbase Server balanced read / write throughput was 14x more than MongoDB
• Couchbase Server balanced read / write throughput was 13x more than DataStax Enterprise

“Thumbtack works with organizations around the world to build and deploy scalable solutions.  We have implemented almost all the leading NoSQL vendors – including the three tested in this benchmark,” said Ben Engber, CEO of Thumbtack Technologies.  “Our intention with this benchmark is to provide a current set of metrics for database performance that is easy for others to verify and duplicate.  We believe this study does that quite well, and as a result, we are confident in our results that Couchbase Server 2.5 outperforms the competition on all measures.”

About the benchmark

The new benchmark, conducted by Thumbtack Technology, was done with the goal of comparing several popular NoSQL databases in simple and common use cases.  Thumbtack has led production implementations at client sites for all versions of the databases tested, and worked closely with each vendor over several months to ensure optimal configuration for each of the tests. 

Thumbtack Technology ran two classic use case scenarios.  The first emulated a typical application of 95% reads and 5% writes and the second emulated peak write loads, with 50% reads and 50% writes.  Thumbtack Technology provided the testing parameters to ensure that anyone wanting to replicate the tests is able to do so.  These include:

• Tested database versions: Couchbase 2.5.1, DataStax 2.0.9 and MongoDB 2.6.4
• Use of the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
• Keeping 90% of the dataset in RAM to achieve the highest performance
• Running each database on dedicated hardware backed by SSD storage

Additional Resources

• Get the benchmark
• Read the NoSQL leaders blog
• Read the NoSQL benchmark blog
• Read the Thumbtack blog
• Learn more about Couchbase Server
• Read why Viber replaced MongoDB with Couchbase for lower TCO and better performance
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, CA – September 8, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the release of Spring Data Couchbase Integration, continuing its investment in the integration of Couchbase Server into the Spring ecosystem. The Spring Data Couchbase Integration gives millions of Java developers simpler, faster and better capabilities to build modern enterprise applications.

“Building mission critical applications that can support ever growing enterprise requirements for scalability, flexibility and performance requires developers to know many different technologies.” said Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Couchbase.  “With Spring Data Couchbase integration, Couchbase and Spring offer Java developers a familiar and consistent programming model to build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications that run on the fastest, best performing NoSQL database available today.”

Spring, by Pivotal, is the most popular Java platform in the world, with millions of Java developers using it to build enterprise applications. Couchbase Server is quickly gaining its place as the best NoSQL database in the world, accelerating growth quarter over quarter and leapfrogging the competition with new product releases and major customer wins at some of the largest companies around the world. Combining the scalability and ultra high performance of Couchbase Server with the popularity of Spring, makes it easier for millions of java developers around the world to build scalable, reliable, next generation mission critical, cloud and big data applications.

“Spring provides the world’s largest community of Java developers with a comprehensive and open programming model to build better enterprise applications,” said Randy MacBlane, vice president of engineering at Pivotal. “As Couchbase has rapidly gained in popularity, we have seen growing demand from both Couchbase and Spring Open Source communities to bring distributed data management from Couchbase to Spring Framework apps.  We are excited to provide this integration to the millions of developers building on Spring.”

Spring Data Couchbase integration allows users to:

• Easily integrate with the complete Spring Ecosystem
• Work in objects versus JSON documents
• Easily access Couchbase Server through high-level repositories, down to full custom access as needed
• Reuse stable and mature Spring components for robustness and feature completeness
• Build applications using a unified programming model that enables easy migration and interoperability between Couchbase, relational databases and search engines

“The Spring Data Couchbase Library enabled our Java server team to develop a secure, reliable scalable single page application in no time,” said Frederic Laub, Chief Technology Officer of a stealth startup. “Quick and dirty development has lost its meaning. With the Spring Data Couchbase Library, it’s quick, reliable, scalable and secure development out of the box.”

Additional Resources

• Couchbase Spring Data Project
• Couchbase Server
• 2014 High Performance NoSQL Benchmark
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

WALTHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Telerik® today announced the availability of the Verified Plugins Marketplace, the first-of-its-kind gallery of Cordova/PhoneGap plugins to extend and empower cross-platform hybrid mobile development. Free to the community, the gallery provides thoroughly tested and documented plugins to help ease app development initiatives.

“We are excited for Couchbase to be one of the first enterprise-level LINQ providers in the Telerik Verified Plugin Marketplace”

Telerik recently surveyed nearly 2,200 developers and IT decision makers. The survey results indicate more than 80 percent of respondents are using open source within their development cycles.1 However, enterprises are still hesitant to fully leverage open source solutions that are not certified and supported. The Verified Plugins Marketplace provides a single location to add and access a series of Telerik-certified plugins necessary for mobile development.

“In the true spirit of open source, we’ve delivered a single destination for developers to get the latest, proven plugins and also have the opportunity to talk directly with app authors,” said Aaron Mahimainathan, Chief Product Officer, Telerik. “We know Cordova/PhoneGap is at the heart of hybrid mobile development and our Verified Plugin Marketplace is open to everyone using PhoneGap to push mobile apps forward. In fact, it’s much more than a marketplace—it’s a real community that enables deep dev-to-dev communication about the technologies that matter to them.”

Since launching in August, Telerik has posted more than two-dozen plugins ranging from individual developer submissions to plugins supporting technologies from Couchbase, Leanplum and AYLIEN. Plugins range from Google AdMob banners to a background audio plugin, calendaring, barcode scanning, push notifications and more. Telerik plans to expand the marketplace with additional plugins from enterprise-level partners and individual authors.

“We are excited for Couchbase to be one of the first enterprise-level LINQ providers in the Telerik Verified Plugin Marketplace,” said Wayne Carter, Chief Architect of Mobile, Couchbase. “By adding LINQ on top of Couchbase Server, Telerik is making it easier for the .NET developer community to build scalable, enterprise class mobile applications on the industry’s most complete NoSQL database.”

Telerik is the provider of Telerik PlatformSM, a cross-platform mobile development solution, built on open standards, for iOS, Android and Windows Phone development. It addresses the entire application development lifecycle and integrates with numerous tools, frameworks and services. While the Verified Plugin Marketplace does not require use of Telerik Platform, customers worldwide benefit from using Telerik Platform alongside AngularJS, Kendo UI, PhoneGap, GitHub and more.

To download from or submit plugins to the Verified Plugin Marketplace, click here. To learn more about Telerik Platform, please click here.

About Telerik

Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik tools and services can be adopted individually or as a platform and seamlessly integrated with other popular developer solutions. More than 130,000 customers from 60,000 organizations in 94 countries depend on Telerik products, including more than 450 of the Fortune 500®, academic institutions, governments and non-profits. For additional information about Telerik, please visit telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

Telerik is a registered trademark of Telerik AD in the United States and in other countries. FORTUNE 500® is a registered trademark of the FORTUNE magazine division of Time Inc. All other products and services listed herein either are, or may be, registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.

© 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved. AdMob mobile advertising service is a trademark of Google Inc.

1 The Telerik Developer Survey, “App Development State of the Union,” August 2014

Mountain View, CA – August 21, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the beta release of Couchbase Server 3.0.  With this beta release, Couchbase seeks to get valuable user input on new features that strengthen its core architecture and greatly improve the developer and administrator experiences. In addition to making the beta version available, Couchbase has launched a bug bash with winners to be announced at its annual user conference in San Francisco, Couchbase Connect.

“In this release, we are extending our core architecture in ways that further Couchbase Server’s lead as the most scalable and best performing NoSQL database,” said Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering, Couchbase. “In addition to foundational changes, like the advanced stream based protocol and tunable memory, that improve performance and enable Couchbase to support many new use cases, we have dramatically improved the developer experience making it easier to build and extend applications built on Couchbase.”

Couchbase Server 3.0 solidifies Couchbase’s lead as the best performing, most scalable NoSQL database, and makes it faster and easier for developers to build apps on next generation technologies.  The beta, available for download now, is a great opportunity for developers and administrators to start familiarizing themselves with the many new capabilities Couchbase Server 3.0 will deliver.

Advanced Architecture Delivers Unbeatable Performance, Scale and Reliability

Couchbase Server 3.0 foundational advancements introduce a next generation, stream-based protocol, Database Change Protocol (DCP), that dramatically reduces latency, enables blazing fast speed by removing bottlenecks, and provides better utilization of increased memory and network capabilities. With the new DCP, Couchbase view performance is dramatically improved: changes made to documents are immediately streamed and rapidly indexed, making it possible to query data in near real time speeds. Additionally, DCP reduces latency for Couchbase Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) by replicating data memory-to-memory from the source cluster to the destination cluster.

The new release also introduces the NoSQL industry’s first and only on-the-fly tunable memory, enabling businesses to manage big data however they want: tune for all data to stay in memory for super fast response times, or for an appropriate subset to reside in memory.  This new capability gives Couchbase Server the power to support very large data sets efficiently and cost effectively, and makes it possible for Couchbase Server to support a variety of new use cases as the database can be configured on the fly to support whatever the application needs.

New Features Improve Experience for the Developer, Administrator and the Enterprise

Couchbase Server 3.0 also includes numerous enhancements and new features that deliver industrial-strength, enterprise grade administration. Some highlights of the new release include:

Simplified Administration:

• Couchbase Server 3.0 includes new options for incremental backup and restore. This new ability, which enables incremental backups of only data changed since the last backup, requires less storage and completes faster.
• Administrators will also benefit from new bucket priorities.  Buckets are isolated, virtual containers that logically group records within a cluster; they are the functional equivalent to a database.  This new prioritization capability gives administrators better control of bucket resource allocation with pause and resume controls that enable XDCR replication to be stopped and started again during maintenance.

Enterprise Class Security:

• Couchbase Server 3.0 raises the bar on NoSQL security with encrypted data access. SSL encrypts data in-flight between client and server, providing secure on-the-wire data access for applications and administrators.
• Making access safe and secure, Couchbase Server 3.0 introduces encrypted HTTPS access to the Couchbase administrator console and the REST API.

Ease of Development

• With Couchbase Server 3.0, developers can use Couchbase 2.0 SDKs to access fully integrated, native JSON, making it easier and faster to build applications in the most widely used languages.
• New and powerful asynchronous and reactive interfaces in Java and .NET give developers the ability to build richer applications, with better IO performance.
• New integrations with Spring, gEvent, twisted and more, make it easier for developers to build applications on popular, open source frameworks.

A full listing of new features can be found here.

Couchbase Server 3.0 Bug Bash

As part of the beta release, Couchbase is also announcing the Couchbase Server 3.0 Bug Bash, a contest inviting developers to put Couchbase Server 3.0 to the test.  Couchbase is giving rewards, swag and public recognition to developers who help make Couchbase Server 3.0 a secure, high quality, and bug free release. Winners will be recognized in three categories: most severe bug, most unique bug and most number of bugs.  Developers interested in joining the bug bash should visit www.couchbase.com/bugbash/.

Additional Resources
Couchbase Server 3.0 Beta
Couchbase Server 3.0 Bug Bash
Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Couchbase Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the appointment of Rod Hamlin as its Vice President of Business Development, further strengthening its management team to accelerate the company’s rapid growth as more and more enterprises look to Couchbase to power mobile and mission critical NoSQL applications.

Hamlin joins Couchbase in the midst of an explosive growth period driven by increasing enterprise adoption of NoSQL and mobile applications. Since the start of the year, Couchbase has raised $60M in funding, added new offices around the world, launched the industry’s first mobile NoSQL solution and added more than 70 large enterprises to its growing list of customers. Couchbase’s increasing success is driving massive interest in a rapidly expanding ecosystem. Hamlin will be responsible for strengthening and expanding relationships with existing partners and identifying and building partnerships with new companies that are part of the big data, NoSQL and mobile ecosystems.

“Mobile and NoSQL are at the top of almost every CIO’s priority list and have become crucial technologies for businesses to remain competitive in a world of big data,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase. “That imperative continues to accelerate interest in Couchbase and creates the need for a thriving partner ecosystem.  Rod’s decades of experience in mobile and enterprise software are a tremendous asset that will help us leverage this growing opportunity.  We are thrilled to have him join Couchbase.”

Rod is a proven mobile and enterprise business development and sales executive having helped lead and grow several notable companies to IPO or successful acquisition. Before Couchbase, Rod ran business development for WIMM Labs, a pioneer in wearable Android technology, which was acquired by Google in 2012. Prior to WIMM, Rod served as SVP of Sales & Marketing for Opera Software, a global leader in mobile browsing and advertising. Rod also owned the global P&L for several years at Nuance Communications were he served as EVP of Global Sales and Professional Services. As an early employee with CRM leader, Onyx Software, Rod helped the company achieve a global presence and dynamic growth, leading to a successful IPO. Rod began his career with IBM in Seattle, and has served on several advisory boards including Spoke Software and Jibe Mobile.

“Couchbase has an incredibly impressive product portfolio which spans massively growing markets including NoSQL, Big Data and Mobile Applications,” said Rod Hamlin, Vice President of Business Development, Couchbase.  “I’m excited to be joining the company at this time of explosive growth to form a strong ecosystem of system integrators, resellers, and technology partners, which will provide the foundation to meet our goal of being the global leader in next generation data management.”

Mountain View and Santa Clara, Calif., August 19, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, and CumuLogic, the leading innovator in private Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software, are pleased to announce a partnership to bring developers seamless access to Couchbase Server “as a service” via on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The new partnership provides the industry’s first production-ready Database-as-a-Service platform that enables developers to dramatically speed time-to-market for mission critical applications powered by Couchbase Server.

The CumuLogic DBaaS platform makes it easy for IT to deliver database infrastructure on-demand for agile development teams by automating the provisioning and management of Couchbase Server via a self-service portal. By supporting on-premises deployments, this joint solution enables IT operations teams to retain control of the underlying infrastructure for governance and security.

The CumuLogic DBaaS platform is extremely simple to deploy. It also provides high availability and resiliency, backup and restore, and performance optimization functions to meet the requirements of mission critical applications.

“The Couchbase and CumuLogic partnership will make it easier for businesses to easily deploy enterprise grade NoSQL for mission critical applications,” said Rod Hamlin, Vice President of Business Development, Couchbase. “With the CumuLogic self service portal for support of on-premises, cloud or hybrid deployments, businesses have the flexibility to access the power of Couchbase Server’s unmatched performance, scalability and reliability in the deployment model that best fits their need.”

“CumuLogic’s DBaaS platform not only makes Couchbase Server development simple for developers, it also empowers Ops teams to easily deploy Couchbase Server at a very large scale, inside the firewall,” said Chip Childers, Vice President of Product Strategy, CumuLogic. “We’re excited to work with Couchbase to provide a consistent DBaaS experience for application development, test and Ops teams.”

Couchbase and CumuLogic will be demonstrating provisioning and management of Couchbase Server via the CumuLogic DBaaS platform during a live webinar on September 11^th, 10:00 AM Pacific, highlighting how this joint solution can help Fortune 1000 customers speed time-to-market by enabling on-demand, self-service provisioning and management of Couchbase Server in just minutes. This also dramatically improves developer productivity and reduces friction in getting new applications to market.

The CumuLogic DBaaS platform runs on Apache CloudStack, Citrix CloudPlatform, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and VMware vCloud private clouds, virtualized environments and bare metal. The CumuLogic DBaaS Platform is available for download at cumulogic.com/downloads/.

About CumuLogic

CumuLogic is a software provider that enables enterprises and Cloud Providers to deploy Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) functionality on any infrastructure – cloud environments, VM pools and bare metal. The CumuLogic DBaaS software platform empowers developers and DBAs with self-service database deployment and operations, while enabling IT Ops to retain control of the underlying infrastructure for data governance and security. For more information, visit cumulogic.com.

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laura.ventura@cumulogic.com

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Mountain View, CA – August 19, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the expansion of its partner ecosystem. Newly announced partnerships with Cloudsoft, CumuLogic and ElasticBox will give customers the option to deploy Couchbase Server to public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. With these new partners, customers can now automate the process of provisioning Couchbase Server to Amazon Web Services, HP Cloud, IBM SoftLayer, VMware, OpenStack, and more.

“We are thrilled to announce the addition of Cloudsoft, CumuLogic and ElasticBox as new partners,” said Rod Hamlin, VP of Business Development, Couchbase. “Adding these partners ensures customers can find the right option for their business to deploy Couchbase Server to their cloud of choice, whether it’s on-premises, public or hybrid, and power their applications with the highest performing and most scalable NoSQL database.” 

Recent projections from Gartner indicate that more enterprises will be moving their infrastructure to the cloud, making the expansion of Couchbase’s cloud deployment ecosystem timely and relevant. In its 2013 Public Cloud Services Forecast Overview, Gartner projected a 17.7 percent growth rate for public cloud services through 2016. Gartner also projects that cloud computing will account for the majority of new IT spend by 2016 and by the end of 2017, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments, emphasizing the importance of enabling deployment of Couchbase technology across all cloud-based environments.

Couchbase Cloud Eco-System

Cloudsoft, CumuLogic and ElasticBox join a thriving Couchbase partner ecosystem.  Existing partners for cloud deployments include Amazon Web Services, RightScale, VMWare, Windows Azure, HP Cloud Services, Red Hat’s OpenShift, and Eucalyptus. Each of the new partners provides unique benefit to businesses wanting to leverage Couchbase.

Cloudsoft

Cloudsoft Application Management Platform (AMP), built on the open source Apache Brooklyn project, streamlines the deployment and operation of applications by orchestrating services, platforms and infrastructure dynamically and in real time. Enterprises building and running applications can compose these from a wide range of software components, policies and target environments. As a Couchbase partner and an equally committed open source company, Cloudsoft has already contributed support for Couchbase Server to the Apache Brooklyn project and is actively working with Couchbase to add Couchbase Mobile support.

For more information on the partnership with Cloudsoft, read their announcement and the blog by Alex Heneveld, co-founder and CTO at Cloudsoft. Additionally, register for an upcoming webinar DevOps Meets Cloud: Blueprints for Couchbase Server Deployment that will include a demonstration of how to use Apache Brooklyn’s Couchbase support to create composite blueprints that will enable Couchbase users to model, deploy and manage their Couchbase applications both on-premises and in the cloud.

CumuLogic

CumuLogic’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform provides a quick and easy way to access fully managed database instances on-premises, on any Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud or virtual machine resource pool. As a Couchbase partner, CumuLogic will provide access to Couchbase “as a service” in public, private and hybrid cloud environments, dramatically improving time-to-market of mission critical applications.

For more information on the partnership with CumuLogic, read the announcement and blog by Chip Childers, VP of Product Strategy at CumuLogic. Additionally, register for an upcoming webinar Deploying Couchbase via CumuLogic’s On-Prem DBaaS Platform that will demonstrate how the CumuLogic DBaaS Platform provisions, scales and manages Couchbase Server clusters on demand.

ElasticBox

ElasticBox is an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) technology that streamlines the development, deployment, and management of applications for any cloud. ElasticBox has pioneered a simplified, modular, service-based application development structure, where fully configured components of application architecture are encapsulated as “Boxes” and made available as a service. The technology provides real time collaboration and a decrease of application delivery time for enterprises. As a Couchbase partner, ElasticBox will create “Couchbase Box”, allowing ElasticBox users to quickly deploy and run Couchbase in the cloud.

For more information on the partnership with ElasticBox, read the announcement and blog. Additionally, register for an upcoming webinar that will include a demonstration of how to deploy web and mobile applications powered by Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile with ElasticBox. 

To learn more about Couchbase partnerships, visit www.couchbase.com/partners/.

Additional Resources

• Cloudsoft Blog
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, CA – July 23, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced continued momentum in Q2 2014, driven by new product releases and major customer wins, as large enterprises choose Couchbase Server, over Oracle and MongoDB, for mission critical applications. Q2 customer deals included wins at some of the world’s most recognized brands, including AT&T,  BSKYB, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Factset, FICO, Leclerc, Nikkei, Ntelos, Orange, PMU, Symantec, Tesco, Tixr, Unique Vacations, Verizon, vente-privee.com and WebMD.

“The market is clearly moving to broader adoption of NoSQL for big data management and mission critical applications,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase. “We are seeing customers conduct deep, strategic vendor evaluations that compare and validate database performance, functionality and reliability. Our continued growth this quarter, and competitive wins over Oracle and MongoDB at some of the largest companies around the world, show that Couchbase Server continues to outperform the competition.” 

In addition to more than 70 customer wins across the United States, Europe and Asia, Couchbase announced the release of the world’s first NoSQL mobile database,

received $60 Million in Series E financing, appointed Sujan Jain as Chief Financial Officer, and outperformed MongoDB and Datastax in the 2014 NoSQL High Performance benchmark.

Couchbase Leapfrogs Competition with Delivery of World’s First Mobile NoSQL Database and Sync Solution

Businesses adopting a mobile first strategy want a better way to build mobile applications.  Couchbase Mobile enables mobile application developers to quickly and easily build mobile applications that are always on, with or without a network connection, and that are able to easily sync data of all types to the cloud – or with other devices. The release of Couchbase Mobile is further increasing demand for Couchbase technology.

Couchbase Blows Past Competition in NoSQL Performance Benchmark

Couchbase Server continues to outpace the competition in meeting enterprise requirements for speed, performance and reliability.  In the second quarter, Thumbtack Technologies released a 2014 High Performance Benchmark that documented Couchbase Server’s superior performance over MongoDB and Datastax. The results from the 2014 NoSQL benchmark are consistent with internal benchmarks run by many of Couchbase customers.

New Funding Positions Couchbase to Expand Leadership

With an exploding big data market that is increasing demand for NoSQL database technology, Couchbase anticipates nonstop growth in 2014 and beyond. With the additional $60 million investment received in Q2, Couchbase will continue delivering the scale, reliability, and performance needed to support enterprise mission critical applications, and will continue building market leadership by investing in product development, innovation, and company expansion, including increasing regional technical support operations and scaling its marketing and sales teams.

Additional Resources

Thumbtack Technology 2014 High Performance NoSQL Benchmark
Couchbase Announces Sujan Jain as Chief Financial Officer
Learn more about Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition
Learn more about Couchbase Mobile
Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, Calif. – June 26, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced a $60 Million series E round of financing. The round was led by two new investors, WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund and brings the total amount of Couchbase funding to $115 Million.   All existing venture capital investors also participated in this round of financing.

The new investment is further evidence of the growth of the global big data market which is segmented into two halves: operational data management, largely led by NoSQL vendors and analytical data processing, led by Hadoop vendors.  The operational data management segment of big data is starting to accelerate at a much faster pace, driven by large enterprise adoption of NoSQL.

“Global adoption of NoSQL for operational big data initiatives is just beginning.  Business have spent years trying to get Oracle to efficiently scale, or looked to MongoDB to experiment with small projects on non relational infrastructures,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase.  “But, as these companies become more dependent on applications that simply cannot perform or scale on MongoDB or Oracle, they are turning to Couchbase. That is because Couchbase Server is designed and built to deliver the scale and performance needed by next generation infrastructure.”

Couchbase Uniquely Positioned to Win Operational Big Data Market Share

IDC predicts that the market for big data will reach $16.1 billion in 2014, growing 6 times faster than the overall IT market, with software accounting for 24% of the big data market.  While Hadoop drives the analytical segment of big data, NoSQL is the catalyst for operational data management. Rapid acceleration in the growth of the NoSQL market is driven by multiple factors, the biggest being enterprise adoption of next generation architectures that support big data initiatives.

“Accel is interested in finding the leaders for the big data market,” said Kevin Efrusy, Partner at Accel Partners.  “Couchbase is in a great position to disrupt the database market. It is building momentum with Oracle replacements and demonstrating continued competitive success over other NoSQL vendors.”

Couchbase is uniquely positioned to become the de facto general purpose NoSQL database of choice.  Its flagship product, Couchbase Server, is architected to consolidate multiple layers of functionality delivering the simplicity of a key value database, the flexibility of a document database and the read speed of an in-memory database.  This layer consolidation means Couchbase Server is singularly able to support multiple big-data use cases, making it an ideal choice for enterprises re-platforming for their next generation projects on a single infrastructure that is future-proof and cost effective. 

Evolving Mobile Revolution

Support for mobile applications is at the top of every IT agenda, and these mobile initiatives are evolving to include new requirements.  A typical mobile data strategy even a year ago, assumed that data would be kept in the cloud.  But now there is a shift happening at an accelerating pace, where data needs to be always available.  That creates a requirement for storing big data on a device, machine, wearable, etc. and being able to sync it with data stored in the cloud, or on other devices.

With its May launch of Couchbase Mobile, Couchbase leapfrogged the competition by delivering an end-to-end operational big data management platform that supports both cloud and edge based computing.  With Couchbase Mobile, enterprises have the ability to manage data via the world’s first and only NoSQL mobile database, and if needed, sync data to the cloud through Couchbase Sync Gateway. With its first-to-market NoSQL mobile database, Couchbase is positioned to take significant share of the huge mobile market.

Investing in Growth

Couchbase has experienced incredible growth over the past year.  Sales have increased 400%, the company has doubled its employee base, added 8 offices around the world and won strategic deals at large enterprise accounts.  Couchbase will use this new round of funding to further its lead in innovation, as well as enabling global enterprise adoption of NoSQL and big data initiatives.  This will include continued product investments, expanded regional technical support operations and scaling its marketing and sales teams.

Both investment funds are new to supporting Couchbase. Accel Growth III is a new $1 billion fund focused on investing in later stage companies that are driving important new trends in technology adoption.  WestSummit is funded by its partners located across the US and China.  Leveraging its strong global network, it focuses on helping build growth stage technology companies into global market leaders. Raymond Yang, co-founder and managing partner at WestSummit will join the Couchbase Board of Directors.

“Our investment in Couchbase is testament to our belief that organizations around the world are moving to next generation architectures,” said Raymond Yang, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at WestSummit.  “China, and broader Asia, represent a huge market, and we believe Couchbase is well positioned to take leading share of this opportunity.  As an investor and board member, I’m looking forward to supporting their APAC growth.”

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read why Viber replaced MongoDB with Couchbase

Mountain View, Calif. – June 25, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced preliminary results of an independent NoSQL benchmark by Thumbtack Technology, Inc., an industry leader in NoSQL consulting services, with engagements across industries from ad tech to financial services.

The scalability and performance benchmark followed the industry benchmark standards developed by the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) and found that when measured against common workloads on some of the most common use cases, Couchbase consistently outperformed the competition.

“Couchbase Server is quickly becoming the de facto standard for an enterprise class, scalable NoSQL database that can reliably support mission critical applications and a wide variety of use cases,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase.  “It is also becoming obvious that MongoDB is simply not architected for managing mission critical enterprise deployments at scale.  This is why companies like Viber are replacing Mongo with Couchbase, and companies like PayPal choose Couchbase over the competition, as the next generation architecture for their business.”

Benchmark results

Couchbase’s design translates into the unmatched performance, which was demonstrated by the Thumbtack Technology benchmark:

• Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 6x more than MongoDB
• Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 7x more than DataStax Enterprise
• Couchbase Server balanced read / write throughput was 7x more than MongoDB
• Couchbase Server balanced read / write throughput was 2x more than DataStax Enterprise

“Thumbtack works with organizations around the world to build and deploy scalable solutions.  We have implemented almost all the leading NoSQL vendors – including the three tested in this benchmark,” said Ben Engber, Thumbtack Technologies.  “Our intention with this benchmark is to provide a current set of metrics for database performance that is easy for others to verify and duplicate.  We believe this study does that quite well, and as a result, we are confident in our results that Couchbase Server 2.5 outperforms the competition on all measures.”

About the benchmark

The new benchmark, conducted by Thumbtack Technology, was done with the goal of comparing several popular NoSQL databases in simple and common use cases.  The company has led production implementations at client sites for all versions of the databases tested and worked directly with each vendor to ensure optimal configuration for each of the tests. 

Thumbtack Technology ran two classic use case scenarios.  The first emulated a typical application of 95% reads and 5% writes and the second emulated peak write loads, with 50% reads and 50% writes.  Thumbtack Technology provided the testing parameters to ensure that anyone wanting to replicate the tests is able to do so.  These include:

• Tested database versions: Couchbase 2.5, DataStax 2.0.7 and MongoDB 2.6.1
• Use of the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
• Keeping 90% of the dataset in RAM to achieve the highest performance
• Running each database on dedicated hardware backed by SSD storage

More details will be available in the full July report.

Couchbase’s Architecture

Couchbase Server was designed from a simple, yet bold vision: build the first general purpose NoSQL database. That bold vision meant that the architecture had to support a large variety of use cases and a future laden with exponentially growing scalability performance and usability requirements. The Server currently organically consolidates the caching tier and the database tier. This gives Couchbase performance characteristics of a cache and the durability of a database. These foundational principles make the server easy to manage, perform at high speeds, scale horizontally and provide the highest availability.

Additional Resources

• See the 2014 NoSQL Benchmark initial results
• See the NoSQL Benchmark blog
• See Viber explain how it scales to 100M concurrent users with Couchbase
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read why Viber replaced MongoDB with Couchbase

Mountain View, Calif. – June 17, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the appointment of Sujan Jain as its SVP & Chief Financial Officer, expanding its management team to accelerate the company’s rapid growth as more and more enterprises build mission critical applications on NoSQL.

In the past year, Couchbase has achieved 400% growth, doubled the employee base and added large enterprise customers around the world, including Amadeus, Beats, Neiman Marcus and Viber.  Jain will be responsible for the continued development of the company’s long-term financial success and will oversee all Couchbase financial and operational functions.

“Adding our CFO is a significant step forward for Couchbase as we continue to progress on our path to becoming a publicly traded company,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold.  “Sujan has impressive credentials that include senior executive positions responsible for increasing business, leading finance and operations, as well as serving as a board advisor for both publicly and privately held companies.  We are thrilled to have Sujan join our leadership team.”

Mr. Jain is an operationally focused, seasoned executive with a strong track record in strategic planning, financial management and growing and scaling global organizations.  He most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Model N (NYSE: MODN), a leading provider of revenue management software, where he led a successful $120 million Initial Public Offering within a year of joining the company.  Prior to Model N, Mr. Jain served as the Vice President of Finance and General Manager of the software vertical for NetSuite, Inc. (NYSE: N). 

Mr. Jain has also held Chief Financial Officer positions at Transmeta Corporation and at NanoAmp Solutions.  Additionally, he has held several investment banking and operating roles at J.P. Morgan Chase, Lazard and Schlumberger.  Mr. Jain is also an advisor to several publicly and privately held high-tech companies.

“Couchbase is showing incredible traction among the Fortune500 as the most scalable and reliable NoSQL solution for enterprise big data initiatives,” said Jain. “The adoption of Couchbase Server for mission critical applications by large, global organizations, as well as its experienced executive team, are what attracted me to the company. I am excited to leverage my experience working with pre and post IPO companies to extend Couchbase’s leadership in the NoSQL industry.”

Sujan holds a MBA, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from Columbia University, a B.S. degree in engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology and is a certified public accountant.

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read why Viber replaced MongoDB with Couchbase