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Mountain View, Calif. – May 28, 2013 – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced the appointment of Ravi Mayuram as vice president of engineering, strengthening the company’s ability to develop and release products quickly to meet burgeoning market demand. A software industry veteran with a deep background in database technology, Ravi was most recently senior director of engineering at Oracle and has held senior and technical management positions at BEA, HP, Informix, and Siebel. Ravi reports to Rahim Yaseen, Couchbase senior vice president of products.

News Highlights

• Ravi Mayuram has joined Couchbase, Inc., the leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, augmenting the company’s engineering leadership team and helping accelerate the release of products to meet growing market demand.

• In his new role, Ravi is responsible for development of the company’s flagship document database, Couchbase Server, that provides easy scalability, consistent high performance, always-on 24×365 availability, and a flexible data model. He also leads development of the Couchbase’s upcoming mobile product offering. He also oversees product delivery teams, including performance engineering, quality engineering, and IT operations. 

• Previously in his career, Ravi held senior technical and management positions at leading software companies including BEA, HP, Informix, Oracle, and Siebel Systems. He led innovations in the areas of social graph and search and analytics at Oracle, as well as helped initiate the company’s Cloud Collaboration Platform. His startup experience includes BroadBand Office (Kleiner-Perkins venture), and Plumtree (acquired by BEA).

Supporting Quotes

• “I am pleased to welcome Ravi to the Couchbase team, especially during this time of exceptional growth and adoption of our NoSQL technology. We have big ambitions for Couchbase as a company, and Ravi brings the right mixture of passion, experience and enthusiasm that we need to reach our goals.” – Rahim Yaseen, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Couchbase
• “Couchbase, through careful thought and execution, has been built into a company that has a far-reaching vision and growing impact. The increasing adoption by customers is a testament to this, and I am thrilled to be a part of the talented and passionate team at Couchbase. I look forward to continuing to advance the company as a technology leader and a prominent player in the NoSQL market.”  – Ravi Mayuram, Vice President of Engineering, Couchbase

Additional Resources

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

Mountain View, Calif. – May 22, 2013  – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, announced today that it has been named Winner of 2013 TiE50 “Top Startup” Award at TiEcon 2013, the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. Couchbase was amongst 50 winners honored on Saturday, May 18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

“Today’s new applications are accessed 24×365 by millions of web and mobile users and must support a growing variety, volume and velocity of data. Traditional database technologies are hard pressed to keep up with the demands of these applications, ” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “As a NoSQL document database, Couchbase serves the rising tide of users who want to easily develop interactive web and mobile apps and run them reliably at scale. We are thrilled to be recognized as a TiE50 award winner for our innovation and entrepreneurship.”

Speaking to a global audience at the awards ceremony during TiEcon 2013, the conference Chairman and President of TiE Silicon Valley, Mr. Venkatesh Shukla said that “the TiE50 program screened 1142 companies from 24 countries and 50 best-of-breed companies were announced winners.”

“Over the past four years, the TiE50 program gained global acclaim attracting startups from all over the world. TiE50 as a brand has gained much recognition amongst the VC and Angel communities – particularly in the Silicon Valley. About 110 finalists and winners had successful exits,” said Program Chair Ram K. Reddy.

About TiE50

TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology startups worldwide. Awards are announced at TiEcon, the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE provides a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology entrepreneurs worldwide. Our global network of 54 chapters located in most major North American, Asian and European countries and cities with more than 14,000 members across 13 countries.

Mountain View, Calif. – May 15, 2013  – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, announced today it had been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

Couchbase was selected based on a unique assessment of potential based on the company’s actual track record and standing, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry. Couchbase was recognized with this group as one of the best performing and prominent companies of the year.

Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and “scale ups” since 1995. Finalists are still evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Twenty major criteria underlie the scoring and process. They include, among others: the candidate company’s addressable market size, its IP and patents, its financing, the proof of concept, trailing revenues and management’s expertise. Each company goes through an individual interview after filling out a thorough submission, complemented by a due diligence.

2013 will be remembered as a special vintage. “The finalists list confirms the excellent choices made by entrepreneurs and VCs and the start-ups’ solid roots in corporate America, embracing their innovations. By all metrics, it emphasizes the United States’ entrepreneurial excellence,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.

Finalist selections for the 2013 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award are based upon technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the fields of security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, life sciences, cloud, mobile and others completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

“Red Herring evaluates some of the most exciting, innovative companies for their Top100 North America award and Couchbase is honored to be included among them,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Thousands of companies worldwide have come to rely on Couchbase NoSQL database technology to power their interactive web and mobile applications, and their success fuels our desire to build a world-class business that serves the evolving database market.”

Finalists are asked to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Forum in Monterey, Calif., May 21 to 23, 2013. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of May 23 at the event.

Please follow the Red Herring conference at https://twitter.com/digitalherring hashtag #RedHerring100

Mountain View, Calif. – May 14, 2013  – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the 2013 OnDemand Companies to Watch. Inclusion in the OnDemand Companies to Watch signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. 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 OnDemand Companies to Watch will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on May 20, 2013, at Hewlett-Packard’s Executive Briefing Center in Palo Alto, Calif.

“As we move into a new digital age that’s fueled by robust applications, mobile technology, and always-on performance, on-demand innovations are enhancing almost every sector of the online world. The borders are being pulled down between desktop, TV, tablet, smartphone, and laptop, and the rigorous determination of the companies in the Global Silicon Valley are meeting and exceeding this developing entrepreneurial challenge,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The OnDemand Companies to Watch winners are using the increasingly stable and reliable cloud infrastructure to develop, maintain, and deploy a continuous stream of disruptive technology to every single computer user on the planet. The OnDemand Companies to Watch are about to break into the Global Silicon Valley and become some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”

The OnDemand Companies to Watch winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2013 list.

“Today’s interactive applications are accessed 24×365 by millions of web and mobile users, and the volume and velocity of data they generate is growing at an unprecedented rate. Traditional technologies are hard pressed to keep up with the scalability and performance demands of these new applications,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Couchbase document database technology serves the rising tide of customers and users who want to easily develop interactive web and mobile applications and run them reliably at scale. It’s an honor to be recognized as a 2013 AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 Company to Watch alongside other innovative companies who are reshaping the market.”

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand connecting and informing the entrepreneurial community in the Global Silicon Valley. Founded by Red Herring founding editor, Tony Perkins in 2003, AlwaysOn’s mission is to continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.

San Francisco, Calif. – GDC 2013 Booth #2035 – March 27, 2013  – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that Jawfish Games relies on Couchbase document-oriented database technology as the persistent data store behind its award-winning real-time game tournament platform for mobile users. Jawfish Games was recognized earlier this month at LAUNCH Festival 2013, where it earned the Best Consumer Award for the development of its groundbreaking platform, powered by Couchbase Server.

News Highlights

• Jawfish Games provides a real-time multiplayer tournament platform for mobile and web games. To support their fast match-making and to coordinate many thousands of players through their real-time games, Jawfish Games requires a highly scalable data store solution with reliably low-latency response times. 
• Today, Couchbase Server is the document-database behind Jawfish Games’ pioneering platform for real-time tournament play on mobile devices. Couchbase Server is used for all persistent data such as player accounts, metadata, game statistics, achievement system, and leaderboards. It also supports the rules engines, and stores and serves marketing-related data such as bonus offers.
• Jawfish selected Couchbase after struggling with its initial efforts to develop a distributed data layer using Amazon’s DynamoDB, which proved to be more difficult to manage at scale and expensive. Couchbase was chosen for its easy, efficient scalability; consistent high performance for real-time data; and indexing/map reduce capabilities.
• Couchbase will be showcasing Jawfish Games at Booth #2035 at the Game Developers Conference being held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center today through Friday. Players will have the opportunity to experience real-time tournament play as well as compete for prizes awarded at the booth each day.

Supporting Quotes

• “Our vision is for games that are powered by Jawfish to be immediately recognizable as real time, competitive, and incredibly fun. This means that our technology platform has to provide great performance and reliability at scale. Couchbase meets that standard, and is incredibly critical to our ability to deliver on our vision.”- Phil Gordon, CEO, Jawfish Games
• “We congratulate Jawfish Games on their innovation and early success. We are honored to be a part of that success through Jawfish’s reliance on Couchbase Server as the always scalable, always-on NoSQL database behind their revolutionary tournament gaming platform.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase

Additional Resources

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

About Jawfish Games

Jawfish Games is the industry leader in real-time, multi-player tournaments for mobile and web. The Jawfish Games mission is to help people stop playing with themselves. Games played in real time tournaments are more exciting, fun, and engaging. Jawfish has created a scalable, resilient, lightweight infrastructure for turning great single-player titles into even better multi-player real-time tournaments. Their software is cross-platform and seamlessly facilitates fun and engaging tournaments with players on different devices playing in the same field of play.

About Couchbase Open Source Project

The Couchbase Open Source Project is a leading NoSQL database project, with a vibrant community focused on developing distributed database technology that supports both key-value and document-oriented use cases. All Couchbase technology components are available under the Apache 2.0 License, and may also be obtained as packaged software from Couchbase, Inc. in both enterprise and community editions.

Mountain View, Calif. and Seoul, Korea – March 11, 2013 – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, and N2M Co., Ltd. today announced a reseller agreement that expands Couchbase operations to Korea. The announcement precedes the first-ever Couchbase Korea Dev Day, which will take place on April 4, 2013 in Seoul, and marks a growing level of NoSQL database adoption in the surrounding region.

News Highlights

• Couchbase is partnering with N2M, a Seoul-based reseller and solutions integrator, specializing in sourcing and supplies, to jointly invest in NoSQL market development in Korea.
• Early customers in Korea include companies like KBS Media who recognize the need for the scalability, performance, and always-on capabilities of Couchbase Server 2.0.
• N2M will extend marketing, sales, and community support in Korea, creating a local presence for developers implementing Couchbase NoSQL database technology for their interactive applications.
• Couchbase Korea Dev Day will take place Thursday, April 4 in Seoul and will provide a full-day, hands-on workshop for web application developers and architects interested in building applications with Couchbase Server 2.0.

Supporting Quotes

• “At KBS Media, our business is to maximize the potential of KBS content, which includes delivering it in innovative ways to our media partners and customers. Having the right technology platform is essential to our business success, and NoSQL database technology plays an important part. With its performance, scalability, and flexibility, Couchbase stands out among the NoSQL providers and is the best fit for our needs.” – Kim Kyoung hoon, Team Manager / E-Business Dept, KBS Media, which provides products and services in association with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), one of the world’s leading public broadcasters
• “Application development has changed dramatically with the rise of web and mobile applications, and NoSQL database technology is optimized for these interactive applications. We are excited to enter the Korean market to address the growing demand for NoSQL, and our partnership with N2M gives us the ability to better serve customers and users with Couchbase technology, which provides easy scalability, consistent high performance, always-on reliability, and a flexible data model for easy application development.” – Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO, Couchbase
• “Open source software is at the forefront of technology innovation, and at N2M, we pride ourselves in bringing cutting-edge technology to our customers. We are excited to be working with Couchbase to introduce customers to the advantages of Couchbase Server, and help advance the adoption of NoSQL database technology in Korea.” – Kim Hyung Jin, President and CEO, N2M Co., Ltd.

Additional Resources

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Register for Couchbase Korea Dev Day
• Learn more about the Couchbase Open Source Project
• Couchbase Korea Naver Cafe
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About N2M

N2M is a leading provider of IT services, consulting and solutions and is partnered with many global enterprise software partners worldwide. Through domain expertise and solutions, combined with proven success in the field, N2M continues to provide world-class service to leading organizations in Korea. N2M is devoted to delivering quality-centric processes and standards to ensure that the software solutions it provides increase customer revenue, meet time-to-market requirements, and minimize investment. https://www.n2m.co.kr/

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and DURHAM, NC — March 4, 2013— Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, and Open Software Integrators (OSI), the open source professional services company with specialties in the area of Big Data, enterprise and Internet scalability, today announced a partnership agreement. Through the agreement, OSI will offer consulting, software development, training, and architectural solutions for Couchbase Server, augmenting Couchbase’s ability to meet growing customer demand for its flagship document-oriented NoSQL database.

News Highlights

• Couchbase and OSI are partnering to provide services to companies implementing Couchbase Server NoSQL database technology.
• The partnership is designed to help companies get up and running as quickly as possible with Couchbase Server, whether they are moving from a relational data model to a document-oriented database or starting out with a NoSQL open source solution for the first time.
• Specific OSI offerings include:
  • Migration services to help companies move from their existing relational database solution to Couchbase NoSQL database technology
  • Migration services to switch from an existing NoSQL solution to Couchbase
  • Architectural services for modeling and developing apps using Couchbase Server as the document-oriented data store

Supporting Quotes

•  “We’re thrilled to be partnering with OSI, leveraging their extensive NoSQL and open source expertise to better serve our growing customer base, particularly those who are making the transition from relational database technology to the more flexible document-oriented data model. Working together, we can help our joint customers accelerate their adoption of Couchbase Server and its easy scalability, consistent high performance and always-on data availability.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO and President, Couchbase

• “As time has passed it has been a pleasure getting to know the great people behind Couchbase and their powerful technology. When I work with CIOs and CTOs figuring out how to scale their existing infrastructure Couchbase is often an appealing right fit. I am excited about this partnership and working even more closely with our friends at Couchbase.”  –  Andrew C. Oliver, President, Open Software Integrators

Additional Online Resources

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Learn more about the Couchbase Open Source Project
• Discover the OSI blog
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Open Source Project

The Couchbase Open Source Project is a leading NoSQL database project, with a vibrant community focused on developing distributed database technology that supports both key-value and document-oriented use cases. All Couchbase technology components are available under the Apache 2.0 License, and may also be obtained as packaged software from Couchbase, Inc. in both enterprise and community editions.

About Open Software Integrators

Open Software Integrators (OSI) provides consulting services to partners and customers. Their consultants solve a variety of challenges that span technical, pre-sales, performance, and architectural issues. They represent our premier vendors and work with our direct clients both on and off site as needed. OSI offers support for significant logistical, capital, technical and training investment with specialties in the area of enterprise and Internet scalability. OSI has offices in Durham and Chicago. https://www.osintegrators.com/

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – February 26, 2013 – Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that Couchbase UK 2013 will take place on April 11 at the Congress Centre in London, and is expected to draw more than 200 attendees from across Europe. The one-day, two-track event offers 15 technical presentations by Couchbase experts, including speakers from Betfair, The Hut Group, and Skyscanner, with basic to advanced topics for those exploring or using NoSQL or Couchbase Server. In addition, Couchbase will offer Couchbase Server training on April 9-10, with two-day in-depth sessions for developers and administrators.

“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. “Last year’s event in London was a great success and we’re looking forward to hosting Couchbase UK 2013 to again 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.”

Conference Highlights:

• Featured speakers include:
  • Tim Morrow, Head of Sports Delivery, and Abe Ingersoll, Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Betfair. Betfair, one of the world’s largest international online sports betting providers, was looking for non-relational database options to power their consumer-facing web and mobile businesses. In this keynote session, attendees will hear how Betfair came to choose Couchbase, and create and deploy the product into operation in Betfair’s production systems.
  • Chris Woods, Architect, The Hut Group. The Hut Group is the UK’s leading multi-website online retailer. Attendees will hear about the company’s experience with Couchbase during the 2012 e-commerce holiday peak season, and get a preview of their pilot projects with Couchbase and Elasticsearch.
  • Alistair Hann, CTO, Skyscanner. Alistair will highlight how Couchbase delivers the scalability and performance needed to support this fast-growing global travel search site.
• Technology updates, including what’s new with Couchbase Server 2.0 and live demos
   
• 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
• Genius bar for connecting with Couchbase experts and session speakers

• Post-conference London pub crawl (hosted by Couchbase)

• Online registration is available on the Couchbase website, where attendees can purchase early bird tickets through March 15, 2013.

Additional Online Resources

• Download Couchbase UK 2013 logo
• Register for Couchbase Developer Training
• Register for Couchbase Administrator Training
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

Mountain View, Calif. – February 25, 2013 – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, and Elasticsearch, the company behind the popular real-time search and analytics open source project, today announced the release of Couchbase Server Plug-in for Elasticsearch. With the new plug-in, Couchbase users can incorporate search, relevance-based queries using boosting and faceted analytics, and other capabilities that enable a growing class of applications that require the ability to manage and serve a variety of content or aggregate and use data from third parties such as Facebook and Twitter.

The new plug-in continuously streams data between Couchbase Server 2.0 and Elasticsearch, combining the indexing, querying and real-time analytics of Couchbase with the real-time search capabilities of Elasticsearch for richer more powerful applications. Specific features include:

• Continuous real-time replication:  The plug-in continuously transfers data to Elasticsearch after data is written to disk on Couchbase. The search index on the Elasticsearch cluster is always kept up to date with the data in Couchbase.
• Topology aware: The plug-in is cluster-topology aware. If a Couchbase node or Elasticsearch server goes down, or if new servers are added, the updated cluster topology information is obtained and replication continues to the available servers in the destination cluster.
• Efficient recovery from network failures: The plug-in tracks the state of what data is replicated from Couchbase to Elasticsearch. If data transfer is interrupted due to intermittent network connection failures, it can pick up where it left off. 

Supporting Quotes:

• “We are excited to extend the capabilities of Couchbase Server 2.0 with our new plug-in for Elasticsearch and the benefits it brings to customers with content-driven applications. Partnering with Elasticsearch greatly complements Couchbase’s easy scalability, consistent high performance, and always-on capabilities, and provides an even more powerful set of features for developers building interactive web and mobile applications.” – Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Couchbase
• “We view search as the simplest way to explore data. We are thrilled to enable Couchbase users to easily hook data from Couchbase to Elasticsearch, and expose the power of unstructured and structured search and analytics capabilities.” – Steven Schuurman, CEO of Elasticsearch
• “At McGraw Hill Education we are pioneering new ways of teaching and learning with digital technologies using new approaches. NoSQL database technology, and in particular Couchbase, fits well with our vision. As a document database, Couchbase Server 2.0 provides a flexible data model on which we can develop content-rich, highly dynamic applications. The Couchbase Plug-in for Elasticsearch extends this flexibility even further, allowing users to build self-adapting interactive applications using Couchbase and Elasticsearch together.” – Chris Tse, Director of McGraw Hill Education Labs

Additional Resources:

• Download Couchbase Server Plug-in for Elasticsearch
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Learn more about the Couchbase Open Source Project
• Follow @Couchbase and @Elasticsearch on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Open Source Project

The Couchbase Open Source Project is a leading NoSQL database project, with a vibrant community focused on developing distributed database technology that supports both key-value and document-oriented use cases. All Couchbase technology components are available under the Apache 2.0 License, and may also be obtained as packaged software from Couchbase, Inc. in both enterprise and community editions.

About Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is on a mission to organize data and make it easily accessible. We deliver the world’s the most advanced open source search and analytics engine available and make real-time data exploration available to anyone. By having a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, Elasticsearch has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market. Today, Elasticsearch is used by thousands of enterprises in virtually every industry. We take good care of our customers and users, providing production support, development support and training worldwide. To learn more, visit www.elasticsearch.com.

Mountain View, Calif. and Tel Aviv, Israel – January 21, 2013 – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced the expansion of its operations through a reseller agreement with Zaponet, a leading Israeli consultancy specializing in data-centric solutions. The announcement precedes the second CouchConf Israel user conference this week, and marks a growing level of adoption of NoSQL databases in the region.

News Highlights

• Couchbase is partnering with Zaponet, a Tel Aviv-based reseller and solutions integrator specializing in Big Data and NoSQL solutions, to jointly invest in the market opportunity in Israel.
• Zaponet will provide marketing, sales, and community support in Israel, creating a local presence for developers implementing Couchbase NoSQL database technology for their interactive applications.
• CouchConf Israel will take place Thursday, January 24 in Tel Aviv and features local Couchbase customers including Playtika and Convertro.

Supporting Quotes

• “As a leader in social and mobile casino games, Playtika’s success is tied to the reliability, scalability and consistent performance of the infrastructure powering Slotomania and our other gaming properties,” said Ira Holtzer, CTO, Playtika. “Couchbase NoSQL database technology more than meets our requirements, enabling us to provide an excellent experience for millions of daily users, and retain and grow our active user base.”
• “Israel is known for its vibrant technical community, and we are eager to take the next step in serving this exciting market with Couchbase technology,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO, Couchbase. “Partnering with Zaponet, we can better address the need for customer and community support in Israel and further our expansion into the global NoSQL market.”
• “At Zaponet, we pride ourselves in providing leading-edge products and professional services for building state-of-the-art data-centric solutions for our customers,” said Asaf Birenzvieg, CEO and Founder, Zaponet. “We have been impressed by the scalability, performance and reliability of Couchbase Server, and are excited to expand the adoption of this powerful document-oriented database technology in the Israeli market.”

Additional Resources

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Learn more about CouchConf Israel
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About the Couchbase Open Source Project

The Couchbase Open Source Project is a leading NoSQL database project, with a vibrant community focused on developing distributed database technology that supports both key-value and document-oriented use cases. All Couchbase technology components are available under the Apache Public License, and may also be obtained as packaged software from Couchbase, Inc. in both enterprise and community editions.

About Zaponet LTD.

Zaponet, located in Tel Aviv, Israel is a service integrator founded by experienced entrepreneurs and technology leaders aiming to provide a one-stop-shop for clients with data problems and challenges, who are striving to build data-centric applications and become a data-driven organization. Zaponet provides solutions and professional ranging from strategy and requirements analysis to successful implementation and support. For more information, www.zaponet.com or contact Eli Alafi at eli.alafi@zaponet.com or 972.54.8073031.

Mountain View, CA – December 12, 2012 – Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 2.0, the company’s flagship NoSQL database product. The 2.0 release augments existing key-value database capabilities with a flexible document data model, enabling developers to rapidly build and modify their web and mobile applications without the constraints of relational database schemas. Couchbase Server 2.0 also provides easy scalability, consistent high performance, and always-on capabilities to ensure fast response times and uninterrupted data availability for business-critical web and mobile applications.

News Highlights

• Couchbase Server, the leading NoSQL key-value database, now provides document database functionality. By encompassing both key-value and document database models, Couchbase Server 2.0 enables users to address a broad range of use cases with a single NoSQL database technology

• Key new document-oriented features in Couchbase Server 2.0 include:
  • A flexible data model, based on JSON, eliminates the need to create and manage schemas. This significantly increases agility while reducing the complexity and time required when building and modifying applications.
  • Distributed indexing and querying allows users to access stored data via queries, expanding the baseline of supported use cases, including content-oriented web applications and metadata management.
  • Incremental map reduce enables developers to incorporate simple real-time analytics into their applications, for example, leaderboards in social gaming applications.

• Couchbase Server 2.0 furthers Couchbase’s traditional strengths in scalability, performance, and always-on reliability, with new features such as:
  • Cross datacenter replication (XDCR) enables automatic replication of databases across geographically disparate data centers, ensuring data availability in the event of catastrophic infrastructure failures and improving application response time by locating data closer to the users accessing it.
  • Operational enhancements, such as online data and index compaction, further enable Couchbase Server’s zero-downtime application maintenance.

Couchbase Server 2.0 Beta Customer Quotes

• “As we look at building and expanding our highly-available applications across multiple data centers, Couchbase Server 2.0’s cross data center replication will allow us to easily distribute information across multiple data centers. It will not only protect us against data center outages but also bring data closer to our users for a better user experience. In addition, Couchbase Server 2.0 builds on to the key-value capabilities, and adds indexing and querying that will allow us to create richer applications for our users.” – J. Steven Young, Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering, Orbitz

•  “McGraw Hill Education is committed to building innovative digital products and services for the education market. Using new approaches to technology, we are pioneering new ways of teaching and learning with digital technologies. NoSQL database technology, and in particular Couchbase, fits well with our vision. As a document database, Couchbase Server 2.0 provides a flexible data model – including indexing and querying, full-text search integration and incremental Map Reduce – on which we can develop content-rich, highly dynamic, interactive applications that will transform how people teach and learn.” – Christopher Tse, Director of McGraw Hill Education Labs

• “As we add functionality to our new and existing games, indexing and querying will be critical to the feature implementation. With its flexible data model, the Couchbase Server 2.0 document database is a great fit for our needs and will help us be a more agile competitor in the rapidly evolving social gaming space.” – Xiang Shen, Server Lead, Stomp Games, Tencent
• “As a mobile advertising platform, we serve and manage hundreds of millions of user profiles and that number is growing daily. The ability to scale the data tier easily can make or break our success, so the cluster management capabilities in Couchbase Server are a huge advantage for us, allowing us to expand on demand. In addition, the ability to index and query data brings us a lot more flexibility to rapidly enhance our platform.” – Benjamin Gordon, Chief Architect, Jumptap

Additional Supporting Quotes

• “Couchbase 2.0 is the most important release to date in the life of Couchbase NoSQL technology, and we’ve worked hard to make sure it provides the same easy scalability, consistently high performance, and reliability at scale for which Couchbase has become well known, while also providing the indexing and querying capabilities that developers love about a document database. We think Couchbase 2.0 is a great fit for those looking for a better scaling, higher performance alternative to existing document database offerings.” – Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase

• “New use cases and data requirements for high usage, massive scale-out and flexible, rapidly changing design needs are pushing RDBMS products beyond their limits. Those products were designed for fixed schemas, where data structure varies little over time. NoSQL offerings are drawing a great deal of attention because they are designed for greater flexibility and less-fixed data definition, in line with the expectations of programmers building today’s new systems.” – Merv Adrian, Research VP, Gartner

Additional Online Resources

• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Read Couchbase CEO, Bob Wiederhold’s blog on Couchbase 2.0
• Learn more about the Couchbase Open Source Project
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

About Couchbase Server 2.0

Couchbase Server NoSQL document-oriented database technology is optimized for the data management needs of interactive web and mobile 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: Couchbase Server leverages a JSON document model, eliminating the need to create and manage schemas, thereby dramatically reducing the complexity and time required when making changes to an application.

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:

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      

• 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.

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