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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and SANTA CLARA, CA — October 23, 2012 — Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, and PalominoDB, a preeminent database operations and engineering consultancy, today announced a partnership. Working together, the companies will provide enhanced support services for the migration from a relational data model to Couchbase Server, accelerating the success of companies’ NoSQL database deployments.

News Highlights

• Couchbase and Palomino are partnering to provide more operational support to companies implementing NoSQL technology.
• The partnership is designed to help companies get up and running as quickly as possible when migrating from a relational to a document-oriented database.
• With expertise in open source database technologies, Palomino’s professional services division will provide server implementation and support services, including overall architecture evaluation through migration and 24×7 on-call support for production environments.

Supporting Quotes

• “We’re excited to be partnering with Palomino and working with them to help our customers build high-performing, serious web applications that easily scale. Palomino’s commitment to delivering operational excellence – including ensuring a good technology “fit” for each customer’s requirements – provides valuable third-party validation for those considering  a move to Couchbase Server, and helps them make that transition as smooth as possible.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase

• “As we work with companies of all sizes exploring options for scaling their database environments, we have been impressed by the performance and reliability of Couchbase Server. We are very pleased to be partnering with Couchbase to bring this solution to our own customers, and to assist companies considering Couchbase with the implementation and support they need.” – Laine Campbell, founder and principal, PalominoDB

Additional Online Resources

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0 beta
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Discover the Palomino blog
• Follow @PalominoDB on Twitter

About Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server NoSQL database technology is optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. Web application developers and operators rely on Couchbase Server for:

• Easy Scalability: It’s easy to scale the data tier with Couchbase Server without any interruption or change to an application. With one click of a button, users can expand a cluster up to hundreds of servers, automatically keeping the workload evenly distributed among them.
• Consistent High Performance: With consistent sub-millisecond response time, Couchbase Server helps ensure a positive experience for application users. Couchbase Server’s high throughput means fewer servers are required to serve growing numbers of application users.
• Always-on Availability:Couchbase Server’s high availability features means applications are always online, 24×365. Whether upgrading the database, system software or hardware – or recovering from a disaster – Couchbase Server allows you to do so with zero downtime.
• Flexible Data Model: As a NoSQL database, Couchbase Server eliminates the need to create and manage schemas, dramatically reducing the complexity and time required when making changes to an application.

Mountain View, CA – October 10, 2012 – Couchbase, the leader in NoSQL database technology, today announced the appointment of Rahim Yaseen as senior vice president of product development. A 20-year database industry veteran, Yaseen joins Couchbase from Oracle where he served as vice president of engineering, leading the efforts to develop Oracle’s Core Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM) framework, including the technology to support the product’s SaaS -based model.

News Highlights

• Former Oracle Vice President Rahim Yaseen has joined Couchbase, Inc., the leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project. NoSQL is an emerging class of data management software that is optimized for the needs of interactive web applications, providing better scalability, performance, and a more flexible data model than relational database technology.
• In his new role with Couchbase, Yaseen will lead the company’s product development, including the company’s flagship NoSQL database offering, Couchbase Server.
• While at Oracle, Yaseen was responsible for the Core Fusion CRM framework, the industry’s most modern, standards-based, scalable and extensible technology platform to address the specific challenges of sales organizations, which includes the Fusion CRM SaaS programming model for extensibility; the mobile, Outlook and predictive analytics frameworks; the contact center framework; and the customer center and order management applications.
• Previously in his career, Yaseen held executive engineering positions at SAP, Siebel and CMGI/AdForce.
  • Working in the office of the CTO, Yaseen led the technical and strategic direction for SAP’s Next Generation Architecture and Platform.
  • Yaseen led the development of Siebel’s BPM framework including workflow architecture and platform, rule engines and tools, and compilers for scripting languages.
  • At CMGI/AdForce, Yaseen led the development of the ad management and targeting frameworks.
• Yaseen holds six technical patents spanning the areas of database, workflow, and mobile focused on platforms and frameworks.
• Yaseen earned a Ph.D. (EE/CSE), specializing in database systems, from the University of Florida.

Supporting Quotes

• “We are thrilled that Yaseen has joined Couchbase. As a technical visionary with expertise in database development and cloud computing, he adds breadth and depth to our management team, and will be a significant force in extending our technology leadership.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase
• “A recognized NoSQL technology leader, Couchbase is trusted by a rapidly growing number of high-profile companies to ensure the high performance, easy scalability and always-on availability of their interactive web applications. Couchbase is well positioned to accelerate enterprise adoption of NoSQL technology and I couldn’t be more excited to join the company and contribute to making Couchbase a dominant player in the database market.” – Rahim Yaseen, SVP Product Development, Couchbase 

Additional Online Resources      

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server NoSQL database technology is optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. Web application developers and operators rely on Couchbase Server for:

• Easy Scalability: It’s easy to scale the data tier with Couchbase Server without any interruption or change to an application. With one click of a button, users can expand a cluster up to hundreds of servers, automatically keeping the workload evenly distributed among them.
• Consistent High Performance: With consistent sub-millisecond response time, Couchbase Server helps ensure a positive experience for application users. Couchbase Server’s high throughput means fewer servers are required to serve growing numbers of application users.
• Always-on Availability: Couchbase Server’s high availability features means applications are always online, 24×365. Whether upgrading the database, system software or hardware – or recovering from a disaster – Couchbase Server allows you to do so with zero downtime.
• Flexible Data Model: As a NoSQL database, Couchbase Server eliminates the need to create and manage schemas, dramatically reducing the complexity and time required when making changes to an application.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 1, 2012 – Couchbase, the leader in NoSQL database technology, today announced highlights from its second-annual CouchConf San Francisco held on September 21.

Approximately 400 NoSQL developers and users joined the event to learn about the recently released beta of Couchbase Server 2.0, as well as see customer presentations and hear from Couchbase and industry experts using NoSQL technology.

“It was exciting to see so many Couchbase community members and users at CouchConf San Francisco and to provide a venue for them to hear real-world user stories, share their experiences, and expand their skills,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “The surge in attendance this year is further evidence that interest in open source NoSQL technology is continuing to escalate, as is demand for Couchbase Server, especially with the beta release of 2.0.”

Popular technical sessions from the conference (videos now available) included:

• Intro to Couchbase Server 2.0
• App Development with Documents, Their Schemas and Relationships
• App Development with Indexes, Queries, and Geo
• Couchbase Server 2.0: Full Text Search Integration
• Couchbase at LinkedIn

Other presentations at CouchConf San Francisco 2012 featured customer speakers from Orbitz, Tapjoy, Sabre Holdings, McGraw-Hill and TheLadders.

Couchbase was also recently named a winner of the 2012 InfoWorld Bossie Awards for best open source database of the year.

Interested parties can download Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta here.

Additional Online Resources      

• View videos and presentations from the conference
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta
• Register to attend the Couchbase Server 2.0 technical webinar series
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – September 19, 2012 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that the Couchbase open source database has been named one of IDG InfoWorld’s 2012 Bossie Award recipients for the best of open source databases.

The InfoWorld Bossie Awards recognize each year the best business-oriented open source software products. Couchbase was named among other leading innovative open source databases.

Couchbase is an open source NoSQL database optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. It automatically distributes data across commodity servers or virtual machines.

“We’re excited that Couchbase was named a winner of the 2012 Bossie Awards,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Couchbase. “With its easy scalability, consistent high performance, and always-on availability, Couchbase is an ideal NoSQL database technology for developers building serious web applications.”

“Couchbase’s transition to a document database will give MongoDB a run for its money,” said Andrew Oliver, President of Open Software Integrators and InfoWorld Contributor. “It is multithreaded per node, which can be a major scalability benefit – especially when hosted on custom or bare-metal hardware. With some nice integration features, including with Hadoop, Couchbase is a great choice for an operational data store.”

In addition to using the open source code, developers can also download packaged binaries of Couchbase database technology: Couchbase Server Community Edition is available free of charge, and Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition is available as a paid annual subscription.

Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta is now available for download, and will be featured at Couchbase’s second annual CouchConf conference in San Francisco this Friday, September 21. Those interested can learn more about harnessing powerful NoSQL technology for web applications and real world use cases from companies including Orbitz, LinkedIn, Sabre Holdings, McGraw Hill, Shuffle Master, and more.

Additional Online Resources      

• View CouchConf San Francisco sessions on September 21
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server NoSQL database technology is optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. Web application developers and operators rely on Couchbase Server for:

• Easy Scalability: It’s easy to scale the data tier with Couchbase Server without any interruption or change to an application. With one click of a button, users can expand a cluster up to hundreds of servers, automatically keeping the workload evenly distributed among them.
• Consistent High Performance: With consistent sub-millisecond response time, Couchbase Server helps ensure a positive experience for application users. Couchbase Server’s high throughput means fewer servers are required to serve growing numbers of application users.
• Always-on availability: Couchbase Server’s high availability features means applications are always online, 24x7x265. Whether upgrading the database, system software or hardware – or recovering from a disaster – Couchbase Server allows you to do so with zero downtime.
• Flexible data model: As a NoSQL database, Couchbase Server eliminates the need to create and manage schemas, dramatically reducing the complexity and time required when making changes to an application.

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – August 27, 2012 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced its integration solution for the VMware vFabric^TM Application Director^TM, a cloud-enabled application provisioning solution that simplifies how to create and standardize portable application deployment topologies across cloud services. This solution allows deployment and management of Couchbase Server on any VMware vCloud®-powered private, public or hybrid clouds. Now, application middleware teams can easily leverage Couchbase Server in their virtual and cloud environments to create scalable, high-performance, always-on web applications.

Couchbase Server is a simple, fast, elastic, open source NoSQL database optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. It automatically distributes data across commodity servers or virtual machines. Now, Couchbase Server can be easily deployed via VMware’s cloud-enabled application provisioning solution, further simplifying the creation and standardization of application deployment topologies across cloud services.

Specific benefits of Couchbase Server on VMware’s vFabric Application Director include

• Flexible application development and deployment: Using Couchbase Server’s flexible data model and vFabric Application Director’s ability to automate application deployment, users can rapidly implement changes to their web applications.  
• Easy scalability of the entire stack: With Couchbase, it’s easy to scale the database layer, growing a cluster to hundreds of servers, without any interruption or change to an application. With vFabric Application Director, it’s easy to automate and orchestrate provisioning of your application. Together, users will be ready to scale out the entire infrastructure stack to adjust to demand.

“We’re excited to be a part of VMware’s vFabric Application Director Ecosystem,” said Couchbase CEO, Bob Wiederhold. “Working directly with cloud application provisioning tools like Application Director, developers can utilize Couchbase Server to create interactive web applications that scale out to support large numbers of users, providing high-performance, cost-effective cloud instances for their applications.”

“In today’s cloud era, organizations need a better approach to accelerate application deployment across cloud environments,” said Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Management, VMware. “With our partner ecosystem, we want our customers to have a wide selection of ready-to-deploy industry leading application infrastructure products and applications from VMware Cloud® Application Management Marketplace. With Couchbase integration, our customers now have access to an easily scalable, highly reliable NoSQL database that drastically simplifies deployment in hybrid clouds by expanding and contracting scaling and infrastructure requirements without any manual management or downtime.”

Additional Online Resources      

• Learn how to set up Couchbase Server for vFabric Application Director
• Download Couchbase Server 1.8.1
• Register for CouchConf San Francisco
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server NoSQL database technology is optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. Web application developers and operators rely on Couchbase Server for:

• Easy Scalability: It’s easy to scale the data tier with Couchbase Server without any interruption or change to an application. With one click of a button, users can expand a cluster up to hundreds of servers, automatically keeping the workload evenly distributed among them.

• Consistent High Performance: With consistent sub-millisecond response time, Couchbase Server helps ensure a positive experience for application users. Couchbase Server’s high throughput means fewer servers are required to serve growing numbers of application users.
• Always on availability: Couchbase Server’s high availability features means applications are always online, 24x7x265. Whether upgrading the database, system software or hardware – or recovering from a disaster – Couchbase Server allows you to do so with zero downtime.
• Flexible data model: As a NoSQL database, Couchbase Server eliminates the need to create and manage schemas, dramatically reducing the complexity and time required when making changes to an application.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Aug. 21, 2012 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that it has been selected as one of the DataWeek Award 2012 winners for its flagship product Couchbase Server, which is based on the Couchbase open source project. Couchbase was recognized for excellence in NoSQL database technology, one of several categories highlighting the most innovative areas of the data industry.

DataWeek is a six-day conference and festival, taking place in downtown San Francisco, from September 22-27. Through this event, DataWeek aims to drive the industry conversation about how data innovation is disrupting business, technology, and society.

Couchbase Server is a simple, fast, elastic, open source NoSQL database optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. It automatically distributes data across commodity servers or virtual machines.

Couchbase has also partnered with DataWeek to offer a combined pass, providing full conference privileges to both DataWeek and CouchConf San Francisco, a NoSQL-focused conference that takes place September 21, 2012. Discounted passes are available here.

Supporting Quotes:

• “We’re thrilled to be selected as a DataWeek Award winner,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Couchbase. “This award signifies our innovation and leadership in the NoSQL market, as Couchbase Server continues to gain popularity with businesses in enabling easy scalability, consistent high performance, and ‘always on’ capabilities for the data management needs of interactive web applications.”

• “We are happy to recognize some of the best talent in the industry today,” said Geoff Domoracki, CEO of DataWeek. “We would like to create a platform for innovative companies to have a forum to discuss how big data can be harnessed. In an information economy, data is the new capital. Corporations are unlocking the value in their terabytes of data, city governments are opening up their city data for public use, and thousands of ‘data startups’ are building on top of emerging social data feeds. The Data Revolution is when business and society realizes that data is not just how you analyze your business: data is your business. We succeed in business, technology, and society when we join a new ecosystem of data feeds, data infrastructure, data technologies, and data markets.”

Additional Online Resources

• View sessions for CouchConf SF  
• Register for a discounted CouchConf and DataWeek pass
• Download Couchbase Server 1.8.1
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (July 30, 2012) – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced the second annual CouchConf San Francisco will take place on September 21 at the Bently Reserve. The one-day, three-track event offers more than 30 presentations by Couchbase experts, including speakers from Orbitz, Sabre Holdings, TheLadders, and The Knot. Companies including McGraw Hill will also talk about their early use of Couchbase Server 2.0.

“This is a great time for Couchbase, as we continue to see growing customer momentum as well as accelerating community involvement with the Couchbase open source project,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “We’re excited to be hosting CouchConf San Francisco to provide a venue where developers and users – whether they’re new to NoSQL or more experienced with Couchbase – can absorb great content and gain valuable connections that enable them to succeed and expand in their adoption of NoSQL technology.”

Online registration is available on the CouchConf SF website, where attendees can purchase early bird tickets through August 10, 2012. The call for papers is open to the Couchbase community, and speaking proposals may be submitted on the site through August 17, 2012.

Conference Highlights:

• Technology updates, including what’s new with Couchbase Server 2.0, and featuring live demonstrations from users including McGraw Hill and Samba Networks
• A technically rich agenda, packed with breakout sessions for Couchbase developers and administrators including:
  • Basics for developing with Couchbase as well as advanced development topics
  • Best practices for running Couchbase 24×7, plus troubleshooting and performance tuning
  • Migrating from relational to schema-less databases
  • How to evaluate and benchmark NoSQL solutions
  • Building mobile applications with NoSQL
  • User presentations highlighting various Couchbase use cases including social gaming, content management, caching, and others
• Couchbase Lounge for hacking, relaxing, or meeting session speakers and Couchbase project leaders
• After party for mingling and networking!

Additional Online Resources

• Register for CouchConf San Francisco
• Sponsor  CouchConf San Francisco
• Download Couchbase Server 1.8.1
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – July 11, 2012 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners.  Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Couchbase was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Couchbase and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s tenth annual Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum on July 23, 2012.

This two-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political, and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Innovation Summit’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

“This year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 companies have been shaken up by the recent surge in on-demand and mobile innovation.  This year’s crop of robust, innovative applications has launched a complex world of interconnected, sophisticated data being used by a voracious consumer and business userbase.  Coupled with a massive smartphone and tablet adoption, the opportunities for this year’s winners are unlimited,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The 2012 AO Global 250 winners are driving the technology market into new, uncharted territory, representing the highest-growth opportunities we’ve seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the Global Silicon Valley.”

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2012 list.

Couchbase Server is a simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database. It enables a more flexible, scalable, high-performance and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database solutions, and is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between devices and the cloud. As a document-oriented database, Couchbase Server accommodates changing data management requirements without the burden of schema management.

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:

http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2012-AlwaysOn-Global-250-Top-Private-Companies

“We’re honored to be recognized as innovators by AlwaysOn for our Couchbase Server solution,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase. “Companies of all sizes are investing in NoSQL database technology, and this award underscores our momentum as industry leaders as we continue to deliver unmatched flexibility, scalability, and performance for building and deploying interactive web applications.”

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, OnMedia, OnHollywood, IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, Venture Summit East, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, OnMobile, and GoingGreen Silicon Valley. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 19, 2012 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition is now on Amazon Web Services Marketplace (AWS Marketplace), providing a convenient way for customers to find, purchase and immediately start using Couchbase Server in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Developers in over 190 countries can now launch Couchbase Server on AWS with a single click, pay by the hour for the software, and receive a single bill from AWS.

“Companies of all sizes are investing in NoSQL database technology to deliver the flexibility, scalability, and performance they need for interactive web applications,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Couchbase. “The availability of Couchbase Server in the AWS Marketplace makes it even easier for developers – especially those interested in an hourly billing model – to take advantage of the power and proven performance of Couchbase Server, while enjoying the convenience of running and scaling their application in the Amazon cloud.”

“The ability of Couchbase’s solution to quickly and easily scale out data across servers while keeping the application always online was critical for our platform,” said Steven Goh, CEO of mig33, the world’s leading mobile and web community with over 50 million registered users worldwide using their integrated social entertainment services including instant messaging, chat, picture sharing and others. “We deploy Couchbase Server using Amazon Web Services and this combination allows us to dynamically scale our data store to match the changing needs of our application and our future growth requirements.”

The AWS Marketplace is an online store where developers and IT professionals can find, compare, and immediately start using software in the Amazon cloud. Access to the Couchbase Server will arm customers with a more scalable, high-performance and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database technology. There is no need to create and manage schemas, and never a need to normalize, shard or tune the database.

Additional Online Resources

• Find Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition Premium or Standard on the AWS Marketplace
• Register for a CouchConf World Tour event
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

London – CouchConf London March 22, 2012 – Couchbase, Inc., the NoSQL database leader, today announced the expansion of its operations to EMEA with the addition of a local business development and customer support team. The newly formed Couchbase EMEA, which will be headquartered in the UK, puts resources closer to EMEA customers and better positions the company to support the growing demand for Couchbase NoSQL technology in the region.

“As we kick off CouchConf London today, we’re excited to talk about our official expansion into Europe,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase. “Global NoSQL adoption is growing quickly, and EMEA-based customers represent about 20 percent of our worldwide business today. With the UK as our regional center of operations, we can better support the data management needs of our growing customer base, build out a regional ecosystem of partners that will help drive customer success, and engage more meaningfully with our community of developers and users across EMEA.”

Couchbase NoSQL database technology enables a more flexible, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database solutions and is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualizeHd or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between devices and the cloud.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about the CouchConf World Tour
• Read the white paper: “Why NoSQL?”
• Download Couchbase Server 1.8
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

Mountain View, Calif. – February 15, 2012 – Couchbase, the NoSQL database market share leader, today announced its second annual worldwide tour, which follows a successful series of CouchConf events in 2011. The CouchConf 2012 World Tour will feature developer conferences throughout the year in locations across North America, Europe and Asia, delivering Couchbase technical content to the community while spotlighting local users and developers who have adopted Couchbase technology to build and run their interactive web and mobile applications.

“A recent Couchbase survey indicates NoSQL will enter the mainstream in 2012, which is consistent with the rapidly growing adoption of Couchbase NoSQL database technology,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “This is the perfect time for web and mobile developers to learn about this increasingly important technology and to network with others in the NoSQL community. We are excited about our technically rich agenda – which offers content for those new to NoSQL as well as those who are familiar with the technology – and are proud to provide a community event for users, developers and open source contributors to share their experiences with Couchbase technology.”

Call for Papers

A call for papers is now open for the CouchConf 2012 World Tour. Customers, users, contributors and partners are encouraged to submit a proposal to share their Couchbase stories at an upcoming conference.

CouchConf Registration

Conference dates and online registration is available on the CouchConf World Tour website.

Conference Locations and Dates:

• CouchConf Portland: March 2012
• CouchConf London: March 2012
• CouchConf Boston: April 2012
• CouchConf Seoul: April 2012
• CouchConf Seattle: May 2012
• CouchConf: San Francisco June 2012
• CouchConf China: July 2012
• CouchConf: New York September 2012
• CouchConf: Austin September 2012
• CouchConf: Berlin October 2012
• CouchConf: North Carolina October 2012

Additional Online Resources

• Register for a CouchConf event
• Submit a proposal to speak at CouchConf
• Download Couchbase Server 1.8
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

Mountain View, Calif. – February 8, 2012 – Couchbase, Inc., the NoSQL market share leader, today announced the results of an industry survey conducted in December that shows growing adoption of NoSQL in 2012. According to the survey, the majority of the more than 1,300 respondents will fund NoSQL projects in the coming year, saying the technology is becoming more important or critical to their company’s daily operations. Respondents also indicated that the lack of flexibility/rigid schemas associated with relational technology was a primary driver toward NoSQL adoption. NoSQL databases are schema-less and allow users to easily change an application to support the changing needs of the business.

“Based on the results of this survey, it’s clear that NoSQL has moved beyond the experimentation phase,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase. “We believe 2012 will be a breakout year for NoSQL database technology, with companies of all sizes investing in and leveraging it in deeper ways to meet the data management requirements of their applications.”

NoSQL 2012 Survey Highlights

Key data points from the Couchbase NoSQL survey include:

• Nearly half of the more than 1,300 respondents indicated they have funded NoSQL projects in the first half of this year. In companies with more than 250 developers, nearly 70% will fund NoSQL projects over the course of 2012.
• 49% cited rigid schemas as the primary driver for their migration from relational to NoSQL database technology. Lack of scalability and high latency/low performance also ranked highly among the reasons given for migrating to NoSQL  (see chart below for more details).
• 40% overall say that NoSQL is very important or critical to their daily operations, with another 37% indicating it is becoming more important.

  

As part of Couchbase’s survey, respondents identified current use cases, with results that demonstrate the diversification of application and industry adoption of NoSQL technology. Examples include:

• real-time tracking and segmentation of users for ad targeting
• disaster recovery
• inventory tracking
• manufacturing automation
• insurance underwriting
• multi-call center operations (with replication of production data)
• Twitter stream analysis

Additional Comments

Respondents were asked “What is your biggest expectation/hope for what NoSQL technology will do for you in 2012?” Verbatim responses (grouped topically) include:

• Schemas
  • “Free us from the problem of inflexible schemas that are hard to adapt to changing business requirements”
  • “Retire legacy rigid datastores and replace with more efficient, flexible stores”
  • “Insulate us from expensive schema changes. Simplify horizontal scaling”
• Replace RDBMS/become default database
  • Become an integral part of our daily operations and handle at least 30% of our transaction load”
  • “Replace as much as possible of Microsoft SQL Server”
  • “My hope is that I can finally stop using MySQL in 2012”
  • “Free us from Oracle? Increase performance?”
• Scalability/Performance
  • “Allow us to shard billions of documents across multiple commodity servers”
  • “Allow us to scale out rather than up, we’re starting to hit limits of MySQL replication and it’s just not handling the kind of data we’re transferring”
  • “Drive down cost, decrease latency”
  • “Higher performance, wring the most out of our servers”
• Speed and agility in app development
  • “Development agility in new applications”
  • “Faster development and less database contention”
  • “Help us deploy new features faster without having to manage SQL patch scripts and migrations”

Additional Resources

• Read James Phillips’ blog on the survey findings
• Download NoSQL Drivers Chart (.png)
• Read the white paper: “Why NoSQL?”
• Download Couchbase Server NoSQL database
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, Calif. – December 13, 2011 – Couchbase, Inc., the leading NoSQL database company, wraps up a phenomenal year punctuated by significant customer, product and company milestones. Couchbase’s success in 2011 has been fueled by:

• The overall growth in the NoSQL technology market. Uptake of NoSQL technology is increasing dramatically, across many industries, as companies seek a more flexible, high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective approach to data management than traditional relational databases provide.
• The transition from NoSQL experimentation to production deployment. As users exit the experimentation phase and begin to deploy in production behind mission-critical applications, they are increasingly focusing on reliability, maturity and production-readiness. Couchbase’s simple, fast, and elastic NoSQL solution has proven it can meet the stringent reliability demands of companies requiring 24x7x365 availability.

“In less than 12 months Couchbase has emerged as the NoSQL market leader,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Couchbase is consistently the choice for mission-critical, revenue-generating systems where data safety, uptime, and performance consistency are paramount.”

2011 Couchbase Highlights

Customer Milestones

• In addition to thousands of open-source production deployments, Couchbase exceeded 150 commercial deployments worldwide across numerous industries including:
  • Social gaming: Zynga, Pokemon, Quepasa, Antic Entertainment, Gamegos, Meteor Games, Nexon, Playtika, Scoreloop, Shuffle Master, Sojo Studios, Tribal Crossing , VNG, Vostu
  • Advertising: AOL, MediaMind, BurstaBit, Chango, Cognitive Match, Dotomi, Nami Media, TubeMogul, Xclaim
  • Communications: NTT Docomo, Orange France Telecom, VodafoneCisco, ITT, Korea Telecom
  • Business services: Salesforce.com, Thomson Reuters, ADP, Concur, Deutsche Post DHL, LG CNS, Navteq
  • E-commerce: Starbucks, Skechers, Ganz, Kobo, Skyscanner,The Knot
  • Social networking: SmugMug, Vimeo, mig33, Spotme, Tango, The Ladders, Tunewiki, Umami TV,
  • Automotive: American Honda, BMW, Manheim
• “We selected Couchbase after evaluating several open source products to power our next-generation backend ad serving platform. Couchbase has the only product in the market place that met our stringent performance requirements and was dynamically scaled to meet our future growth projections without service interruption. We have been very pleased with the maturity of the product and the responsiveness of the support team at Couchbase.” – AOL Advertising
• Couchbase’s ability to provide real-time data synchronization between devices and the cloud led to a strategic customer relationship with NTT Docomo to support the development of their mobile applications and services, followed by a strategic investment from Docomo Capital.
• “Next-generation mobile applications and associated cloud-based services need the performance, scalability, and schemaless flexibility of NoSQL databases. Couchbase stands out among NoSQL players as the best NoSQL database technology, and the only solution that extends from the datacenter to mobile devices. Couchbase’s unique mobile-to-cloud data synchronization is particularly impressive.” – Dr. Minoru Etoh, Managing Director of Service & Solution Development Department, NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Company Milestones

• In February, Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase, combining the teams of two leading NoSQL database innovators and assembling a critical mass of database and distributed systems expertise.
• In July, Couchbase closed a Series C round of financing, with $15 million in investments from existing and new investors Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $30 million to date.

Product Milestones

• Couchbase announced Couchbase Server 2.0, now shipping in developer preview 3, which extends the performance and dynamic elasticity of Membase Server with the storage, indexing and synchronization innovations pioneered in the Apache CouchDB project.
• Announced and shipped Couchbase mobile technology, providing mobile-to-cloud synchronization– supporting both native iOS and Android application development.
• Couchbase unveiled and released to the public domain the UnQL query language , (UNstructured Query Language). Jointly developed with Microsoft and SQLite, UnQL is designed to provide a common query language for NoSQL developers and help drive widespread adoption of NoSQL technology. Each company has committed to delivering product support for UnQL in 2012.

“It’s an exciting time to be in the database industry and participate in a technology shift that is disrupting the data management status quo of the past 40 years. Couchbase’s amazing growth and success in 2011 has established our position as the industry leader in the NoSQL database market. We are honored by the confidence our customers place in our technology and our company, and are committed to delivering the technology and support our customers need to take their application of NoSQL to the next level.” – James Phillips, Co-Founder and SVP Products, Couchbase

Other Milestones

• Couchbase held its inaugural CouchConf developer conference in July, more than 300 developers gathered in San Francisco to learn and share how to harness Couchbase technology for web and mobile applications. With the great success of the inaugural event, Couchbase launched a CouchConf World Tour to support its worldwide community, with stops in Berlin, Chicago, New York, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo and more venues planned for 2012.

• Couchbase received industry recognition and was named as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Infrastructure Management;  was named to the GigaOM Structure 50 list, a list of leading innovators in cloud computing and infrastructure selected by GigaOM editors; and was selected for VentureWire’s FASTech 50 list of most innovative technology start-ups.

Additional Resources

• Read Bob Wiederhold’s end-of-year blog for more in-depth commentary on Couchbase’s success in 2011 and what lies ahead in 2012

• Download Couchbase NoSQL database technology

• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter

Mountain View, Calif. – December 6, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that Couchbase has gained prominence as a preferred NoSQL database technology in the advertising platforms market. Industry leaders and innovators are increasingly choosing Couchbase to provide critical data management capabilities for their advertising and other offer targeting systems. A partial list of recent customers includes: AOL Advertising, Burstabit Technologies, Chango, Cognitive Match, Dotomi, Media Mind, TubeMogul, and Xclaim.

News Highlights

• Couchbase has gained significant momentum in the advertising platforms market – a key market segment for highly scalable, high-performance data management solutions. Industry leaders and innovators rely on Couchbase to accelerate real-time ad serving through its NoSQL database technology.
• Key features of Couchbase’s NoSQL database technology for ad platform companies include:
  • Schema-less data model. This unique model eliminates the need to define/redefine a database schema before inserting data. Targeting algorithms and approaches can change rapidly and often require changes in input data.
  • Elastic scaling. The technology effortlessly scales out to hold billions of data items for hundreds of millions of users, on commodity hardware or cloud computing instances.
  • Consistent sub-millisecond random read and write latency. This happens across the entire data set, supporting not only optimized decision making but enabling finely targeted personalization of ad and offer content in tight decision time windows.
  • Hadoop integration. Bi-directional connectivity between Hadoop and Couchbase enables closed-loop user profiling and ad serving. The recently announced Couchbase Hadoop Connector is the first certified connector for a NoSQL database and provides Hadoop users with an easy method of moving data back and forth between Couchbase and Hadoop via the Sqoop plug-in.
  • Built-in transparent caching. Built-in Memcached provides object-level caching technology, the most efficient way to use memory for storing active campaign data, allowing fewer servers with less memory to serve numerous campaigns.

Supporting Quotes

• “We selected Couchbase after evaluating several open source products to power our next-generation backend ad serving platform. Couchbase has the only product in the market place that met our stringent performance requirements and was dynamically scaled to meet our future growth projections without service interruption. We have been very pleased with the maturity of the product and the responsiveness of the support team at Couchbase.” – AOL Advertising
• “The ability of Couchbase’s solution to quickly, easily and automatically scale out data to more servers offers huge potential to those who have to address the realities of variable Internet traffic loads. You have to have an effective scaling strategy and Couchbase can help make that easier.” – Bryan Call, Vice President of Engineering, Burstabit Technologies
• “Couchbase is an important part of our ability to serve ads with lightning fast speed. We count on the power of Couchbase technology for the performance and availability of our ad operations, but also rely on its monitoring capabilities to provide the window we need into the system – in fact we have the graphs open all day.” – Mazdak Rezvani, CTO, Chango
• “Brands use our platform to buy video advertising in real-time across a marketplace that totals billions of transactions per day.  Optimization and decision-making at this rate require a scalable, highly performant data store that delivers millisecond-fast response times. The flexibility and performance of Couchbase’s NoSQL solution helps ensure we deliver on our promise to brand advertisers.” – Adam Rose, CTO, TubeMogul
• “Couchbase provides a perfect NoSQL database for ad serving and targeting solutions, allowing the best scaling and speed we have seen. Exemplary customer service and stunning know-how from Couchbase has greatly added to Xclaim quality.” – Tomislav Fistrić, CTO, Xclaim
• “Our proven NoSQL technology provides the performance, scalability and flexibility ad platforms need to accelerate data retrieval and ensure that ad serving is optimized for the best business performance. With the most production deployments in this key market segment, Couchbase is leading the way in optimizing data management for ad targeting to directly impact revenue for our customers.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase

Additional Resources

• Learn moreabout accelerating your ad serving with Couchbase NoSQL technology
• Download Couchbase NoSQL database products
• Participate in the Couchbase survey: What are your plans for NoSQL in 2012?
• Follow Couchbase on Twitter
• Join the CouchConf World Tour

Mountain View, Calif. – November 30, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced the availability of the newly certified Couchbase Hadoop Connector, developed in conjunction with Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services. The Couchbase Hadoop Connector is the first certified connector with a NoSQL database and provides Hadoop users with an easy method of moving data back and forth between Couchbase and Hadoop via an Apache Sqoop plug-in.

These two industry-leading technologies are commonly deployed alongside each other – Couchbase for real-time data operations and Hadoop for data analytics. The Couchbase Hadoop Connecter utilizes the Sqoop plug-in to stream data from the Couchbase system to Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), enabling consistent application performance while also allowing for heavy duty MapReduce processing of the same dataset. In an interactive web application environment, such as an ad targeting platform, this ability ensures low latency and high throughput to make optimized decisions about real-time ad placement.

The Couchbase Hadoop Connector was certified through the Cloudera Certified Technology program, which is designed to make it simpler for Apache Hadoop technology buyers to purchase the right cluster components and software applications to extract the most value from their data.

Supporting Quotes

• Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase: “Cloudera and Couchbase provide highly complementary technologies, and our integration gives customers an easier path to a complete “Big Data” solution, as well as the enterprise-class support they need.”

• Ed Albanese, Head of Business Development, Cloudera: “Empowering organizations to easily move their data between Hadoop and Couchbase allows that data to be used more effectively and for companies to process and serve data in demanding production environments. We’re excited about the Couchbase Hadoop Connector for Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and look forward to extending this Cloudera Certified Technology to our joint customers.”

Additional Resources

• Read more about the Couchbase Cloudera Partnership
• Download the Couchbase Hadoop Connector
• Follow Couchbase on Twitter