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NEW YORK, New York – June 2, 2014 – Couchbase, provider of the most complete NoSQL database, has announced that more than 400 industry leaders plan to attend Couchbase Live New York 2014 today. Couchbase Live (#CBliveNYC) is a one-day, two-track event and developer hackathon that offers attendees a unique opportunity to learn why businesses around the world run mission critical applications on Couchbase Server.

“We continue to see exponential growth in the interest for Couchbase products, including our flagship NoSQL database Couchbase Server and our newly launched Mobile Suite,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase. “Businesses come to our events because they want to learn how customers like Beats Music, McGraw Hill, Neiman Marcus, Nielsen and more gain competitive advantage by running mission critical apps on the world’s most scalable and reliable NoSQL platform.”

NoSQL Hands On Training

In response to swelling participation at Couchbase Live New York 2014, Couchbase has expanded the agenda to include two new hands-on NoSQL administration and NoSQL application development training courses. The courses will be held on Tuesday June 3^rd and on Wednesday June 4^th. Technologists interested in learning how to administer NoSQL, build apps on NoSQL and develop mobile NoSQL can sign up today.

Industry Leaders Share Best Practices

More than half the sessions at Couchbase Live New York 2014 will be led by customers and partners. These sessions will include best practices for deploying Couchbase in an enterprise setting. Customer and partner sessions will include:

• Beyond the Data Center: NoSQL at Global Scale with AWS, presented by Matt Yanchyshyn, Ecosystem Architect, Amazon
• JavaScript Grows Up in the Enterprise, presented by Christopher Tse, McGraw Hill
• Scale and Performance at the Edge Using Couchbase XDCR, presented by Ben Wyckoff, Chief Architect, Mirror Image
• Managing Big Data Challenges with Couchbase, presented by Darrell Pratt, Architect Leader, GPS, Nielsen
• Performance at Scale: Viber Keynote, presented by Amir Ish-Shalom, System Architect, Viber
• How WebMD Maintains Operational Flexibility with NoSQL, presented by Matt Wilson, WebMD

In Depth Technical Sessions Designed to Build and Sharpen NoSQL Skills

Sessions led by Couchbase product management and engineering will include best practices and technical deep dives. These sessions will provide how-to examples for Couchbase products including Couchbase Mobile in addition to previewing Couchbase Server 3.0 and Couchbase N1QL, a completely new SQL-like query language for NoSQL.

Technical sessions will include:

• A N1QL for Every Query, presented by Gerald Sangudi, Architect, Couchbase
• Brace Yourself! Your Document Model in Couchbase, presented by Matthew Revell, Technical Evangelist, Couchbase
• Visualizing a Couchbase Server in Flight, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
• Couchbase on the JVM beyond Java: Scala, Play, Clojure and More, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
• Enabling Always Available Mobile Apps: Couchbase Mobile, presented by Wayne Carter, Chief Mobile Architect and Chris Anderson, Co-founder, Couchbase

Lightning Hackathon Challenges Developers to Build for Big Data Scale Requirements

In addition to the track sessions, Couchbase is challenging the best of the best to put Couchbase Server to the test. Developers from the entire Eastern seaboard are invited to build on the power of Couchbase Server. In this fast-paced, two-hour hackathon, developers will have a chance to show off their NoSQL skills by leveraging the power of Couchbase Server. They will compete to see who can mine the most data the fastest. The more data they mine, the further they can scale; the further they scale, the more data they can mine!

Register for Couchbase Live New York 2014 today, and find out more about the event using the #CBliveNYC hashtag on Twitter.

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Search #CBliveNYC on Twitter

NEW YORK, New York – May 28, 2014 – Couchbase, provider of the most complete NoSQL database, will host its east coast user event Couchbase Live New York 2014 on Tuesday, June 3 at the new Conrad Hotel in Manhattan. Couchbase Live (#CBliveNYC) is a one-day, two-track event and developer hackathon that offers attendees a unique opportunity to learn why businesses around the world select Couchbase Server to support their mission critical applications.

“Couchbase is the NoSQL database of choice for enterprises requiring high performance at scale. Our Live events are designed for customers and prospects to learn best practices for building and implementing successful NoSQL Big Data strategies,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase. “In addition to great use cases, attendees are going to get a sneak peak at N1QL, our SQL like query language currently in development, and Couchbase Server 3.0, which includes many new features that extend our lead as the most scalable platform for mission critical, enterprise applications.”

Industry Leaders Share Best Practices

More than half the sessions at Couchbase Live NYC will be led by customers and partners.  These sessions will include best practices for deploying Couchbase in an enterprise setting. Customer and partner sessions will include:

• Beyond the Data Center: NoSQL at Global Scale with AWS, presented by Matt Yanchyshyn, Ecosystem Architect, Amazon
• JavaScript Grows Up in the Enterprise, presented by Christopher Tse, McGraw Hill
• Scale and Performance at the Edge Using Couchbase XDCR, presented by Ben Wyckoff, Chief Architect, Mirror Image
• Managing Big Data Challenges with Couchbase, presented by Darrell Pratt, Architect Leader, GPS, Nielsen
• Performance at Scale: Viber Keynote, presented by 
Amir Ish-Shalom, System Architect, Viber
• How WebMD Maintains Operational Flexibility with NoSQL, presented by Matt Wilson, WebMD

In Depth Technical Sessions Designed to Build and Sharpen NoSQL Skills

Sessions led by Couchbase product management and engineering will include best practices and technical deep dives with specific how-to examples for Couchbase products including Couchbase Mobile, as well as a preview of Couchbase Server 3.0 and Couchbase N1QL – a completely new SQL-like, query language for NoSQL.

Technical sessions will include:

• A N1QL for Every Query, presented by Gerald Sangudi, Architect, Couchbase
• Brace Yourself!  Your Document Model in Couchbase, presented by Matthew Revell, Technical Evangelist, Couchbase
• Visualizing a Couchbase Server in Flight, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
• Couchbase on the JVM beyond Java: Scala, Play, Clojure and More, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
• Enabling Always Available Mobile Apps: Couchbase Mobile, presented by Wayne Carter, Chief Mobile Architect and Chris Anderson, Co-founder, Couchbase

Lightning Hackathon Challenges Developers to Build for Big Data Scale Requirements

In addition to the track sessions, Couchbase is challenging the best of the best to put Couchbase Server to the test. Developers from the Eastern seaboard are invited to build on the power of Couchbase Server. They will compete to see who can mine the most data the fastest: the more data they mine, the further they can scale; the further they scale, the more data they can mine! In this fast paced two-hour hackathon, developers will have a chance to show off their NoSQL skills by leveraging the power of Couchbase Server.

Register for Couchbase Live New York 2014 today, and find out more about the event using the #CBliveNYC hashtag on Twitter.

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Search #CBliveNYC on Twitter

Mountain View, Calif. – May 21, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, has released Couchbase Mobile, a new suite of products, that will revolutionize mobile applications.  Couchbase Mobile eliminates the network connection as a limitation by giving developers productized mobile data synchronization and the world’s first and only native embedded NoSQL mobile database.  These new products make it possible for mobile application developers to quickly and easily build apps that meet the always-on expectations of today’s users.

“With Couchbase Mobile, we reimagined how mobile applications should be built. Until now, mobile applications were built with the requirement that data must be stored in the cloud because it has been too hard to store and sync data from the device,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Couchbase Mobile changes all that. Our mobile products give developers everything they need to build always-available and always-responsive applications in a fraction of the time it currently takes.  With Couchbase Mobile, the network no longer impacts application performance. When the network is unavailable, the app just works.”

Enabling the Next Generation of Mobile Applications

Mobile applications are expected to work anytime or anywhere, regardless of the limits of network availability or the complexity required to enable data synchronization. But mobile app developers are limited in the apps they can build because current mobile databases are all relational and thus poorly suited to manage the many types of unstructured data generated by today’s mobile users. Additionally, no productized solution has existed for the synchronization of unstructured data that is shared between the cloud and the device. 

Couchbase Mobile changes all that. 

Couchbase Mobile delivers a solution that enables mobile app developers to meet the demand for always-available, always-responsive mobile applications. Couchbase Mobile includes three components: Couchbase Lite, Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server. Taken together, these products provide mobile application developers with a powerful, new platform for creating robust and network-independent applications, simplifying the code needed to manage data synchronization and considerably reducing time to market.

“We welcome Couchbase Lite as a smart solution to address the needs of mobile developers building applications that rely on data synchronization and intermittent connectivity,” said Jon Udell, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.  “We have been using Couchbase Lite in Thali, an experiment to determine through open source prototypes what it takes to make the web truly peer-to-peer. Thali uses Couchbase Lite as a key component of its data replication platform.”

Couchbase Mobile Products

• Couchbase Lite: Couchbase Lite is a full featured, native embedded NoSQL mobile database built from the ground up for mobile. Lightweight in footprint, but delivering all the features of Couchbase Server, along with multi-master replication and conflict resolution. Data is secured during transport and on the device. In its first release, Couchbase Lite has native support for iOS, OSX, Android, Portable Java and Xamarin supported mobile platforms.
• Couchbase Sync Gateway: Couchbase Sync Gateway enables replication between Couchbase Lite on a mobile device and Couchbase Server in the cloud. In addition to replication, Sync Gateway handles user authentication, access control, data filtering, and data change validation
• Couchbase Server: For mobile applications that sync data with the cloud, Couchbase Server provides the most complete, most scalable NoSQL database built on a flexible JSON model. Couchbase Server makes it easy to modify applications without the constraints of a fixed database schema and delivers sub-millisecond, high-throughput reads and writes. Couchbase Server is easy to scale out, and supports topology changes with no downtime.

Couchbase Mobile Eco-System Quickly Forming

Further supporting rapid development and deployment of mobile applications, Couchbase is working with several cross platform development tool providers to deliver out of the box support for Couchbase Lite on the major mobile platforms: iOS, Android and .NET. 

Xamarin

Xamarin provides a native mobile application development platform that enables developers to write fully native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows in C#, sharing business logic, data access, networking code and other app logic code across device platforms.  Xamarin supports 100% of each device platforms APIs.  The result is native mobile apps with native interfaces that are built and maintained more efficiently thanks to code-sharing and reuse. In addition to announcing general availability of Couchbase Mobile, Couchbase also announced today the beta version of Couchbase Lite for .NET (LINK). Co-developed by Couchbase and Xamarin, Couchbase Lite for .NET gives the more than 600,000 developers using Xamarin a powerful new infrastructure to accelerate time to develop native mobile applications.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is an open source development framework that provides a container for developers to wrap apps in, making it fast and easy to build mobile apps using the most popular web technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript. The Couchbase Lite Plug-in for PhoneGap enables developers to build cross-platform mobile apps that are powered by Couchbase Lite by using PhoneGap and standard web technologies (HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript).  Developers simply build their Couchbase Lite powered mobile app, wrap it in a PhoneGap container, and then build executables for iOS and Android devices from the same code base.

“We no longer live in the pre-mobile world. Companies are moving to a mobile first mindset and enterprise IT is being called on to support that,” said Lyn Robison, Data Management Strategies Research Vice President, Gartner.  “But mobile application development teams have been challenged by a lack of infrastructure products at the data layer. A native mobile database with integrated sync will significantly reduce the hurdles faced by mobile application developers in today’s enterprise, allowing them to deliver apps that deliver business value all the time, with or without a connection.”

The Couchbase Mobile products are available for download at: https://mobile.couchbase.com

Mountain View, Calif. – May 21, 2014 – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced the beta release of Couchbase Lite for .NET, jointly developed with Xamarin.  Couchbase Lite is the world’s first and only full featured, flexible, mobile JSON database that runs locally on the device and is built from the ground up for mobile devices. In addition to the beta release of Couchbase Lite for .NET, Couchbase also announced (LINK) general availability of Couchbase mobile, which includes native versions of Couchbase Lite for iOS, Android and Java.

“Our goal is to enable developers to build the next generation of mobile applications,” said Rahim Yaseen, SVP Products and Engineering, Couchbase.  “Xamarin has a community of more than 600,000 developers building native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows in C#.  Building a native .NET version of Couchbase Lite gives that community a faster, easier way to handle mobile data synchronization, eliminating one of the biggest challenges to building always-available, always-responsive applications.”

The beta release of Couchbase Lite for .NET is a joint development effort between Couchbase and Xamarin. Xamarin and Couchbase will continue joint development through the beta and expect to make the product generally available in the fall of 2014.  In addition, Xamarin and Couchbase are collaborating to make the code portable to run on iOS and Android via Xamarin as well as on popular Microsoft mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms.

“Xamarin’s mission is to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps,” said Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and CTO, Xamarin.  “Trying to write code to manage remote data synchronization is not fun.  Couchbase Mobile products, and specifically Couchbase Lite for .NET, give our developer community a platform to write more robust, responsive and available applications in a fraction of the time it used to take.  We are thrilled to be providing the beta version of Couchbase Lite for .NET to our developer community.”

The beta version of Couchbase Lite for .NET is available here.

About Xamarin

Xamarin is the new standard for enterprise mobile development. No other platform enables businesses to reach 2.6 billion iOS, Android, Mac and Windows devices with 100 percent fully native apps from a single, shared code base. Xamarin is used by over 600,000 developers from more than 100 Fortune 500 companies to accelerate the creation of mission-critical consumer and enterprise apps.  Xamarin’s global customer base in 120 countries includes Dow Jones, Bosch, McKesson, Halliburton, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cognizant, GitHub, Rdio and WebMD. Xamarin is a Visionary in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant report for Mobile Application Development Platforms. For more information, please visit: xamarin.com or follow us @xamarinhq.

Contact
Kate Reed
Bite for Couchbase
Kate.Reed@biteglobal.com
Office: 415-365-0364

Xamarin Contact
Briana Marshall
Bateman Group
BMarshall@bateman-group.com
(415) 503-1818

Mountain View, CA – May 13, 2014 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced surging momentum in Q1 2014. Among its achievements, the company:

“Businesses in every industry are moving out of the developer-led, grassroots first phase of NoSQL and into the second phase of NoSQL market adoption: NoSQL support of mission and business critical applications”

• Released Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5, adding rack and availability zone awareness as well as data encryption to meet the needs of large enterprises
• Beat competitors in strategic evaluations by industry leaders in every region of the world for being the most reliable, most scalable and best performing NoSQL database
• Added well-known technology executives to its leadership team, grew employee base by 30 percent and more than doubled the office space for its Mountain View headquarters
• Opened new offices in Bangalore, India; Beijing, China; Paris, France; San Francisco; Tel-Aviv, Israel; and Tokyo, Japan.

Big Data and NoSQL Support for Mission Critical Deployments

The emergence of big data is fueling the rapid growth of NoSQL, the database technology of the future. Businesses that have started implementing NoSQL big data initiatives are more scalable, more nimble and, subsequently, growing their competitive advantage. Beats Music and Neiman Marcus join a long list of Couchbase customers like Adobe, Concur, Viber that are building competitive edge with Couchbase’s NoSQL solutions.

“Businesses in every industry are moving out of the developer-led, grassroots first phase of NoSQL and into the second phase of NoSQL market adoption: NoSQL support of mission and business critical applications,” said Couchbase CEO, Bob Wiederhold. “In addition, businesses have found that the databases supporting phase one NoSQL projects are not architected to meet the performance or scale requirements of mission critical applications. MongoDB’s most recent release, in their words, ‘Mongo’s biggest release ever,’ still does not address fundamental limitations on performance and scale. When businesses need a complete NoSQL solution architected for reliability, scalability and performance, they come to Couchbase.”

Neiman Marcus Selects Couchbase Server

For more than a century, The Neiman Marcus Group has focused on serving the unique needs of the luxury market. As a result, Neiman Marcus is globally recognized as the premier luxury retailer dedicated to providing customers with distinctive merchandise and superior service.

In order to maintain its leadership position as an anytime, anywhere, any device luxury retailer, Neiman Marcus is working to provide a mobile and online experience that is as personalized, consistent and relevant as its traditional, offline experience. Using a broad variety of touch point data, Neiman Marcus identifies unique preferences, aspirations and offers for every customer. Neiman Marcus purchased Couchbase Server in the first quarter and is in the process of implementing it to enhance customer experience by giving salespeople sub-millisecond access to customer profiles across all interactions. Using this consolidated customer profile served by Couchbase, Neiman Marcus will be able to further enhance customer experience by ensuring that each interaction is personal, relevant and consistent across all channels, brands and devices.

Beats Music Goes Live with Couchbase Server

In January, Beats Music launched its much-anticipated streaming music service and app, offering fans a personalized music experience through a unique blend of human curation, digital innovation and musical passion. The new service runs on Couchbase Server.

In order to deliver truly personalized experiences, Beats Music needs to have the most advanced, complete and reliable technology underpinning its service. For that, they use Couchbase, the only NoSQL database providing the reliability, scale and performance businesses like Beats Music need to deliver personalized and seamless customer experiences that will make them the leader in streaming music.

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Learn more about Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition at: https://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-server/overview/
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, CA & London, UK– April 2, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise class NoSQL databases and technologies, today announced the launch of a new Learning Services program to address the growing need to develop and expand the NoSQL talent pool.   As part of the program, Couchbase will begin offering classroom-based courses that will provide multi-day, instructor-led, hands-on training in core NoSQL skills. 

Couchbase Learning Services’ new courses will focus on teaching students the technical skills they need to build, deploy and manage modern NoSQL databases.  The first two courses offered provide students with qualifications that will make them eligible for the highest demand NoSQL job roles: NoSQL application developers and NoSQL server system administrators. Open enrollment begins today, for the new classes starting in June.

“Developer interest in NoSQL database technologies is substantial, but there is still a need to develop the pool of trained and certified talent that enterprises will be looking for to take NoSQL into production,” commented Matt Aslett, research director, data platforms and analytics, 451 Research. “The Couchbase Learning Services program will help address this need in relation to both server deployment and application development.”

Couchbase Learning Services

Industry veteran Peter Childers is leading the new Couchbase Learning Services group. Peter has 18 years experience leading growth and change in open source, learning and performance, sales enablement, online strategy and operations. As an early Red Hat employee, Peter designed and launched the renowned Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training and certification program. Over seven years Peter grew Red Hat’s learning services division into a $60 million worldwide operation, becoming the world’s largest Linux and open source training business, a leader in performance-based testing, and one of Red Hat’s most successful brands.

“Enterprise adoption of NoSQL is on the rise, and as companies increasingly run mission critical, applications on NoSQL infrastructure, they are challenged by a shortage of well trained talent,” said Pete Childers, Vice President, Learning and Strategic Development at Couchbase.   “By offering the most in depth, comprehensive NoSQL training available today, Couchbase will accelerate the growth and experience of professional, technical resources who are capable of managing high scale, modern infrastructure.”

Couchbase Learning Services courses are designed so that students spend at least 60 percent of class time working on instructor-led, hands-on lab training.  Students will learn the most important administrative tasks, such as how to install and configure Couchbase, how to run benchmark testing against a real cluster while monitoring its health, backup and restore a cluster, add and remove nodes, and troubleshoot a live cluster.  Graduates of Couchbase Learning Services courses will be well trained to support and maintain highly interactive, mission critical NoSQL deployments.

The first application developer course, Developing Couchbase NoSQL Applications, provides training through hands-on Couchbase Server application development experience, which leverages the Couchbase Client Java SDK, Gson/JSON, and the CrudRepository<T> pattern. As part of the course, students will build a production NoSQL application.  Through the instructor-led development process, students will learn new skills and gain experience in NoSQL application design, and denormalization with JSON documents, as well as how to fully leverage Couchbase Server features and capabilities.

The first system administrator course, Couchbase NoSQL Server Administration, is a fast-paced, lab-intensive course that makes students immediately productive with Couchbase Server 2.5.  During this course, each student will gain comprehensive and relevant skills through hands-on activities, building and administering their own prototype enterprise NoSQL cluster environment.  This unique learning experience gives students the opportunity to handle high scale workloads and realistic technical scenarios using best practices for high performance NoSQL server operations.

Registration for the new courses is available now at https://www.couchbase.com/training/.  The first course sessions start in June 2014.

Additional Resources

• Register for Couchbase training
• Visit the new community page for mobile developers
• Download Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Visit https://www.couchbase.com

Contact

Cate Lochead;
Couchbase
Phone: 650-867-3510
Email Contact

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 28, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise-class NoSQL databases and technologies, today announced the opening of five new offices in Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangalore and Tel Aviv.

Enterprise and developer adoption of NoSQL technology is growing internationally. A recent independent report by technology analyst firm TechNavio forecasts the global NoSQL market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent over the period of 2013 to 2018. Couchbase’s international expansion will support the roaring demand for high-performing and scalable database solutions for enterprises. The new locations in Beijing, Tokyo and Bangalore mark the company’s first offices in Asia, while Paris and Tel Aviv represent continued development in the EMEA market.

“Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangalore and Tel Aviv are among the top, global business cities, home to thousands of enterprises and high-tech firms where we’ve seen a spike in the demand for NoSQL technology,” said Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO of Couchbase. “As these companies grow, they are looking for technology that can support their expanding business, and they’re turning to Couchbase because we offer the most scalable, enterprise-grade NoSQL database technology on the market – one that is capable of taking companies from grassroots NoSQL adoption to strategic implementation of business-critical applications.”

Couchbase has a growing international customer base, which now includes companies like Flipkart, Digital Generation, Inc., Playtika, Ybrant Digital and Viber. The offices announcement comes shortly after one of Couchbase’s newest Tel Aviv-based customers, Viber, announced its adoption of Couchbase NoSQL to support the scalability demands of its international messaging and VoIP platform, which has hundreds of millions of users.

Couchbase is focused on growing and supporting its developer communities internationally. This year the company is hosting a series of conferences around the world. On April 2, 2014, it will host Couchbase Live [London]. Earlier this year, Couchbase presented Couchbase Live [TLV] in Tel Aviv in February and Couchbase Live [Tokyo] in January.

In 2013, Couchbase experienced dramatic expansion internationally with new partnerships and large-enterprise customers throughout the Middle East, Asia and EMEA markets. The company received a $25 million round of funding in August 2013 to support its international expansion strategy. The opening of new offices and international hiring support Couchbase’s plans. In January 2014, Couchbase announced the hiring of Eric Gold, former Aerospike director, as sales director for Asia. Gold will also support Couchbase’s growth in Israel and throughout the Middle East.

Couchbase currently has a variety of open positions in the new offices, including for software and technical support engineers. A full list of these opportunities can be found at www.couchbase.com/careers#jobviteframe

Additional Resources

• Visit the new community page for mobile developers
• Download Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Visit www.couchbase.com

Mountain View, Calif. – March 11, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise-class NoSQL databases and technologies, today announced its strategic partner KuroBase has released several new, free tools that make it faster and easier for developers to build, deploy, test and monitor Couchbase powered applications. The new releases include the first Heroku add-on for Couchbase, two new Heroku Buildpacks for Ruby and Node.js and New Relic instrumentation. 

“We are very excited that our valued partner KuroBase has taken a leading role in making it easier for Ruby and Node.js developers to build applications on Couchbase Server,” said Rahim Yaseen, Senior Vice President of Products for Couchbase. “The Couchbase developer community is growing fast and looking for the most innovative ways to build enterprise-grade, scalable applications. KuroBase-supported technologies for Heroku and New Relic, make it that much easier for developers to choose Couchbase over other less-scalable NoSQL offerings.” 

The new developer tools built and maintained by KuroBase include:

• Heroku Add-on for Couchbase: The Couchbase add-on brings Couchbase Server to the tens of thousands of developers using Heroku. With a simple click, developers can provision a KuroBase-hosted Couchbase instance directly from the Heroku portal. The add-on also simplifies database configuration by automatically delivering the correct parameters to the developer’s application.
• Heroku Buildpacks for Ruby and Node.js: KuroBase has spent more than one year building and testing custom Buildpacks, available today through GitHub, for Ruby and Node.js on Couchbase. Heroku Buildpacks provide a way for a developer’s application to be executed on the Heroku platform. The Buildpacks are integrated with the required Libcouchbase libraries. With these Buildpacks, developers can quickly deploy Couchbase-powered applications in Ruby or Node.js on Heroku.
• New Relic instrumentation: KuroBase has also built a complete instrumentation for New Relic that allows any Ruby developer to track detailed metrics of all Couchbase calls from within their application. The package includes code analysis, testing and verification tools for the New Relic platform, giving developers out-of-the-box-like functionality for monitoring the performance of their applications.

Together these open-source, freely available tools enable developers to quickly build, deploy, test and monitor Couchbase-powered applications.

“The release of the Heroku add-on, Ruby and Node.js Buildpacks and the New Relic Instrumentation represent years of development and testing by the KuroBase team,” said KuroBase Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder Ali Hamidi. “The combination of the easy-to-use Heroku platform, coupled with the New Relic analytics platform, will accelerate development of Couchbase NoSQL applications.”

The Heroku add-on is available in Beta through the Heroku add-on catalog. The New Relic instrumentation and the Heroku Buildpacks are available for download through GitHub today. 

About Kurobase

Based in San Mateo, California, KuroBase, Inc. (www.kurobase.com) is transforming the way data is shared, stored, and moved across cloud-based infrastructures and services.  Powered by the KuroBase Orchestration Platform, the KuroBase fully-managed Database-As-A-Service (DbaaS) empowers developers to deliver and distribute big data content and real-time data access at much faster speeds with unlimited scalability and consistent performance. Follow @KuroBase on Twitter

Mountain View, Calif. – February 27, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise-class NoSQL databases and technologies, is pleased to announce that software industry veteran Doug Laird has joined the company as its Chief Marketing Officer. Laird will lead global marketing, responsible for extending Couchbase’s early success and establishing the company as the market leader for enterprise-grade NoSQL.

Wikibon forecasts the NoSQL market to reach $3.5 billion in annual revenue over the next five years. Global companies are driving this explosive market growth as they look for database technology that can support the scalability, reliability and high-performance requirements of highly interactive, mission-critical applications. These companies, including Amadeus, AOL, Orbitz, PayPal, Salesforce.com and Viber, continuously select Couchbase Server to support their enterprise-grade NoSQL deployments.

“Couchbase Server is the only NoSQL database fit to provide the scalability and performance that mission-critical enterprise applications require,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “This product advantage gives us a huge market opportunity and we are delighted to have Doug join our management team at this pivotal time. His experience establishing market leadership for top-tier startups will be critical to our success during this hyper-growth period.”

Laird is experienced at building leadership positions for high-growth companies in emerging categories. Prior to Couchbase Laird was at Wildfire, where he served as CMO for its rapidly growing social media marketing business through the company’s acquisition by Google for a reported $400 million. Prior to that, Laird served as Vice President of Global Marketing at QlikTech, where he created a new Business Intelligence category, termed Business Discovery. Gartner endorsed the category and recognized QlikTech as the innovative leader. The new positioning was instrumental in helping drive a three-year increase in annual revenue from $80 million to $321 million and one of the best performing technology IPOs of the 2010. Laird also led corporate marketing at Siebel contributing to the high growth period when sales grew from $410 million to 1.8 billion.

“The NoSQL market is evolving into two distinct segments – small, grassroots developer-led projects, and business-critical applications that require massive scale,” said Laird. “Market success is no longer defined by the number of downloads and LinkedIn skill counts, but by the ability to support mission critical applications. This presents a huge opportunity within the large enterprise segment where Couchbase is uniquely positioned to win. Couchbase’s unrivaled scalability, reliability and performance advantages are driving adoption from global enterprises, such as messaging giant Viber, who is using Couchbase Server to replace NoSQL implementations from other vendors that did not meet its performance requirements.”

London, UK – February 24, 2014 – Willis Group, a global insurance broker, has selected Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition to improve the performance of its Risk Analytics systems.

With 400 offices in 120 countries, Willis introduced Couchbase, a leading provider of NoSQL database technologies, as the de facto NoSQL database solution for a number of its business critical and customer facing applications. These include GIS applications for analysing the risks associated with specific geographic locations and high performance datamarts for analytics. Couchbase Server is also increasing speed, reliability and performance for Willis Group’s core Risk Analytics platform.

The global analytics team tested a number of NoSQL technologies, but found Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition was the clear leader given its:

• High availability through replication and auto-failover
• Massive scalability which can handle millions of data items
• Built in cache layer to deliver excellent caching performance
• Flexible data model for ease of storing unstructured data
• Easy integration with the existing Microsoft development environment

“Couchbase is used as a fundamental part of Willis Group’s risk analytic systems. The in-memory computing it enables has provided Willis Group’s risk analytics system with the high-performance, reliability and scalability to tackle big data challenges,” said Nigel Davis, Managing Director, Head of Platforms and Delivery, Global Analytics at Willis Group.

As well as its risk projects, the team uses Couchbase to support the Willis Research Network, which includes more than 50 science institutes. It is a unique engagement between the private and public sector that integrates science, insurance and resilience at a scale never before envisaged.

Davis added “Beyond performance, reliability is a critical factor. Any downtime has an adverse effect on day-to-day operations because these are business critical applications”.

David Maitland, General Manager, EMEA, at Couchbase said: “Businesses like the Willis that are moving mission critical applications to a NoSQL deployment to have a solution that is flexible and can easily scale. Additionally, each new step forward must be reliable beyond question as even small outages can have a drastic impact on the business. The team at Willis has created an impressive eco-system of data applications leveraging Couchbase Server, that makes it an innovative leader in a very competitive sector.”

A full case study is available on couchbase.com.

Mountain View, CA – February 11, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise class NoSQL databases and technologies, has released Couchbase Server 2.5 Enterprise Edition. The release, available today, includes capabilities for enterprise-grade performance, including new features such as Rack Awareness for high availability and cross data center (XDCR) data encryption for secure data center replication.

“Enterprises requiring the highest scalability and availability are consistently choosing Couchbase over traditional databases and other NoSQL vendors,” said Rahim Yaseen, Senior Vice President, Couchbase. “With the Rack Awareness and data encryption capabilities included in Couchbase Server 2.5 Enterprise Edition, we continue to establish Couchbase as the clear choice for global enterprises requiring high availability, reliability and security.”

High Availability with Rack Awareness

To ensure enterprise-class availability and reliability, master data and replicated data should be stored on different server racks. Couchbase Server 2.5 Enterprise Edition’s newly introduced Rack Awareness provides a simple, flexible and effective solution for data replication that is easy to scale and administer. With Couchbase Rack Awareness, the user can create logical groupings of Couchbase Server nodes and replica copies of the data are automatically distributed across server nodes located on different racks. This intelligent data replication ensures that data is secure despite disruptions such as power outages, or switch or rack failure.

Rack Awareness is especially needed for applications running on public clouds, such as Amazon EC2, where customers have no control over infrastructure availability and uptime. With Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5, customers running applications on a public cloud can leverage Rack Awareness to ensure that replica data is stored on separate zones to maintain 24/7 application uptime.

Using Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5 Rack Awareness, you can now create logical server groups based on your physical server topology for significantly higher reliability in case of rack or zone failures.

Secure Cross Data Center Replication

One of the most compelling features delivered in Couchbase Server 2.0 was the addition of Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR). XDCR delivers high performance by storing data closer to a users’ physical location, and increases application reliability by operating in multiple data centers. 

Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5 builds on the existing XDCR functionality with advanced, secure data encryption. In the absence of a virtual private network (VPN), data sent between networks is typically sent over a wide area network (WAN). Data moving across a WAN is vulnerable unless it is encrypted. With Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5, data can be transmitted using SSL encryption between data centers. This new layer of security helps enterprises achieve global scale in a secure manner.

Couchbase for the Enterprise

More and more global companies are finding that only Couchbase provides the high availability, scalability and performance they need to move from grassroots NoSQL projects, to large mission-critical, deployments. For example, due to scalability issues with their initial NoSQL deployment, a large messaging company recently replaced MongoDB with Couchbase (see related video here). With its newest release, Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition 2.5, Couchbase is providing more functionality for large enterprises to confidently make the transition to NoSQL.

With 400 percent growth and customers including AOL, PayPal, Viber, Network Rail, Concur and Orbitz, Couchbase is quickly becoming the leader for enterprise-class NoSQL databases, because Couchbase scales easier, faster and further, delivering high-performance, 24/7/365 availability and reduced cost of administration.

Additional Resources

• Video of customer explaining migration from MongoDB to Couchbase
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold’s blog
• Subscription pricing www.couchbase.com/couchbase-support
• Learn about Couchbase’s JSON Anywhere mobile strategy

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – February 4, 2014 – Viber, one of the fastest–growing messaging and VoIP services in the world and driver of billions of messages every month, today announced it has chosen Couchbase, the most scalable and fastest-growing NoSQL technology provider.

Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase for High Scalability

Viber’s always-on technology enables hundreds of millions of users to connect in 32 languages worldwide in the three years since its initial launch. To support its high volume and influx of data, Viber has integrated Couchbase as its scalable database solution. Viber previously deployed MongoDB’s NoSQL database technology.

“We found that MongoDB’s NoSQL technology could not adequately support the company’s growing data management needs,” said Amir Ish-Shalom, systems architect at Viber. “After investigating multiple database technologies such as Cassandra and Amazon’s DynamoDB, including more combinations of database plus caching layers, we deployed Couchbase. With Couchbase, we’re now able to handle hundreds of thousands of ops-per-second – an order of magnitude more than our previous solution.”

“Couchbase has an easy and transparent sharding and scaling model, something the previous solution lacked. We were impressed with Couchbase’s powerful and easy to administer sharding for load balancing and scaling,” added Ish-Shalom. “Couchbase was able to provide several times more throughput using less than half the number of nodes. Plus, Couchbase has a unique and innovative consolidation of cache and database tiers, something that made Couchbase’s architecture very appealing.”

“Over the last year we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of Internet companies and enterprises deploying NoSQL technology under large-scale mission-critical applications, said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold.  “These applications require the highest level of scalability, performance, and reliability. This is exactly where Couchbase has been successful with its enterprise customers like PayPal, Amadeus, Orbitz, and now Viber. While large enterprises like Viber adopted MongoDB’s technology as a first-generation NoSQL approach to managing their data, we are steadily seeing those enterprises transition to Couchbase to provide them with the superior solution needed to scale their data and their businesses.”

Amir Ish-Shalom, systems architect at Viber, will deliver a keynote presentation on the company’s transition to Couchbase NoSQL technology at Couchbase [TLV], an international NoSQL user conference in Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday, February 4, 2014.

Additional Resources:

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold’s blog
• Learn about Couchbase’s JSON Anywhere mobile strategy

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 30, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing NoSQL technology provider and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced it will host Couchbase Live [TLV], an international user conference in Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday, February 4, 2014.

Couchbase Live [TLV] Agenda Highlights:

• Amir Ish-Shalom, systems architect at Viber, will deliver the conference keynote along with Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. Together they will discuss how the cross-platform mobile service provider uses Couchbase’s technology to enable mass communications via phone calls and text messaging worldwide.
• The conference will provide a comprehensive view of the NoSQL technology with technical sessions as well as user presentations from database industry leaders.
• Ido Shilon, research and development group leader at LivePerson, and Amiram Shachar, head of DevOps at Ybrant Digital, will share the rationale and benefits of moving to a NoSQL technology
• Couchbase Live [TLV] will take place on February 4, 2014 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Israel Standard Time at the IAF Center Foundation in Herzliyya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Supporting Quotes:

“As we continue to expand Couchbase offerings internationally, we’re looking to increase engagement with database industry experts and users around the world,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. “Tel Aviv is one of the premier, global high-tech hubs and, with its vibrant startup scene, is the perfect host for our latest user conference. We hope Couchbase Live [TLV] will spur many informative and productive conversations for attendees and participants alike.”

Additional Resources

• Register to attend Couchbase [TLV]
• Read posts from Bob Wiederhold on the Couchbase blog
• Visit new community page for mobile developers
• Download Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Visit www.couchbase.com

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 20, 2014 – Couchbase, the fastest-growing NoSQL technology provider and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, announced it will host Couchbase [Tokyo], a one-day event to be held on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 in Tokyo, bringing Couchbase users, developers and the emerging NoSQL community together in Japan.

Couchbase [Tokyo] will offer insights into developing with NoSQL, the database technology increasingly being adopted by enterprises to manage and scale large datasets. The event will also provide an overview of what IT teams should consider when getting started and growing with Couchbase’s technology.

Couchbase [Tokyo] Agenda Highlights:

• Couchbase’s Matt Ingenthron, director of developer solutions, will provide an introduction to the Couchbase Server and offer insights into basic use cases for views, the anatomy of map/reduce functions and the difference between an indexor and an index in terms of resources and updates.
• Jessica Liu, Couchbase product manager, will deliver an overview of JSON Anywhere, Couchbase’s new NoSQL mobile strategy, with details on the mobile product offerings: Couchbase Lite, Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Cloud. With the launch of JSON Anywhere, Couchbase is the first vendor to offer a native NoSQL database for mobile devices.
• Perry Krug of Couchbase will discuss specific NoSQL workload aspects that must be considered for accurately sizing a cluster and key indicators for an undersized cluster, in addition to providing an explanation of how factors like amount of RAM and IO subsystem influence the number of nodes.

Supporting Quotes:

“In Japan and across the globe, we’re continuing to see the shift from grassroots adoption of NoSQL to larger-scale deployments,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. “Bringing our user conference to Tokyo, we look forward to offering the region’s NoSQL community with robust knowledge and support, in addition to extending the superior scalability, performance and reliability of Couchbase’s technology to more organizations to help them scale their data and their businesses.”

Additional Resources:

• Register to attend Couchbase [Tokyo]
• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold’s blog

Tokyo, Japan. – January 16, 2014 – SCSK Corporation, a leading information service company in Japan, announced today that it has signed a reseller agreement with Couchbase, the fastest-growing NoSQL technology provider and the company behind the Couchbase open source project.

Couchbase recently received two of IDG’s prestigious InfoWorld 2013 Bossie Awards and was recognized as having one of “the best open source big data tools” and being one of “the best of open source data center and cloud software” products. The company recently announced that software subscription sales grew by more than 400 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2013. The rapid growth was fueled by the success of Couchbase’s 2.0 release and associated major competitive wins at many large global companies.

SCSK has been working with Couchbase to market its product in Japan since early 2012, and recently became an official reseller of Couchbase. SCSK has chosen to partner with Couchbase for its industry-leading NoSQL scalability, performance and flexibility.

“The NoSQL market is starting to enter its hyper-growth stage with an increasing shift from relational to NoSQL,” said Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold. “The first wave has been at the server level, either in the data center or in the cloud. The next wave is clearly mobile, where Couchbase is leading the charge in the shift away from relational, and we’re also seeing tremendous potential in the Japanese market.”