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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
• 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

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

Mountain View, Calif. – October 18, 2011 – Couchbase, Inc., the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that DOCOMO Capital, Inc., a subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO, INC., has made a strategic investment in the company. Couchbase also today announced a strategic customer relationship with DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. to develop and deploy mobile services using Couchbase’s NoSQL database software (see DOCOMO Chooses Couchbase NoSQL Technology).

News Highlights

• DOCOMO Capital, a subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO that is responsible for venture investments in mobile communications-related companies, has made a strategic investment in Couchbase.
• The investment is part of the $15 million series C financing announced by Couchbase in August, $14 million of which was provided by the company’s venture capital investors.
• The announcement of a strategic investment from DOCOMO Capital expands and further solidifies the multi-year strategic relationship between Couchbase and DOCOMO Innovations. The relationship is focused on developing next-generation mobile services based on Couchbase technology, which provides a NoSQL database native to the mobile device and unique real-time mobile-to-cloud data synchronization.

Supporting Quotes

• Eisuke Miki, President and CEO of DOCOMO Capital: “We are increasingly convinced that NoSQL database technology is disrupting the database industry and that it will be an increasingly important part of the mobile/cloud infrastructure. With proven NoSQL database technology and a compelling roadmap for the quickly evolving mobile application landscape, Couchbase is an innovative company we believe has the core technology to lead the market. We are pleased to participate in the series C round of financing as a new strategic investor.”
   
• Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase: “The investment from DOCOMO Capital is not only a testament to the strong relationship we’ve cultivated with DOCOMO, but it also demonstrates the strength of our NoSQL database technology. Couchbase is well positioned to accelerate the development of NoSQL database solutions that uniquely support the growing need for cloud-based mobile infrastructure and new applications and services.”

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Couchbase NoSQL solutions
• Download Couchbase NoSQL database products
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Bob Wiederhold’s blog
• Join the CouchConf World Tour

About DOCOMO Capital

Based in Palo Alto, California, DOCOMO Capital is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO (NYSE:DCM), the leading mobile communication company based in Japan. Working closely with NTT DOCOMO’s business and R&D divisions, DOCOMO Capital is in charge of NTT DOCOMO’s venture investments in mobile communications related start-up companies mainly in the United States. DOCOMO Capital is committed to investing in and strategically backing applicable start-up companies that have evolving and advancing cutting-edge new technologies to promote growth and ultimately introducing them into NTT DOCOMO’s future services and products.

Mountain View, Calif. – October 18, 2011 –Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced a strategic customer relationship with DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “DOCOMO”), a U.S.-based arm of parent company NTT DOCOMO, Inc., in which the company will develop and deploy mobile services using Couchbase’s NoSQL database software. Additionally, NTT DOCOMO Capital has made a strategic investment in Couchbase, announced separately today (see Couchbase and NTT Docomo Expand Relationship with Strategic Investment.)

News Highlights

• Couchbase has executed a multi-year licensing and services agreement with DOCOMO encompassing the entire Couchbase NoSQL database product family.
• The breadth of Couchbase NoSQL solutions, with interoperable database offerings spanning from mobile devices to desktops to the cloud, was a key consideration in DOCOMO’s selection process.
• Couchbase real-time data infrastructure provides capabilities essential for DOCOMO’s current mobile services offerings, while DOCOMO’s next-generation service offerings will leverage Couchbase’s unique mobile-to-cloud data synchronization, ensuring mobile device databases are bi-directionally and transparently synchronized whenever network connectivity is available.
• DOCOMO selected Couchbase after an extensive investigation to identify a NoSQL vendor having technology that would deliver:
  • Elastic scalability from one node to hundreds of nodes;
  • A production-ready solution with high-availability;
  • Enterprise-class services and support.
• As a strategic customer, DOCOMO will help shape the Couchbase server and mobile product roadmap.

Supporting Quotes

• Dr. Minoru Etoh, Managing Director of Service & Solution Development Department, NTT DOCOMO, Inc.: “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. As a strategic business partner, Couchbase has earned its place in DOCOMO Innovations’ ecosystem of trusted suppliers for mobile service solutions.”
• Bob Wiederhold, CEO, Couchbase: “Consumers and workers are increasingly accessing applications and content through mobile devices connected to cloud-based services. DOCOMO Innovations is at the forefront of developing innovative applications based on this paradigm, and we are thrilled to have them as our partner as we deliver great NoSQL database solutions focused on this opportunity.”

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Couchbase NoSQL solutions
• Download Couchbase NoSQL database products
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Bob Wiederhold’s blog comments on today’s announcement
• Join the CouchConf World Tour

About DOCOMO Innovations

DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiaryof NTT DOCOMO USA, Inc., the U.S. holding company for Japan’s NTT DOCOMO, Inc., a world leader in mobile operations and a growing provider of comprehensive services centered on mobility. In August 1, 2011, DOCOMO Innovations was launched with an expanded mission for Open Innovation as an outgrowth of the last 10 years of cutting-edge technological research conducted at DOCOMO Communications Laboratories USA, Inc., DOCOMO Innovations aims to realize new applications and services for the next generation of mobile services and beyond through collaboration.  DOCOMO Innovations provides vital innovations that enable the future growth of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. in the Japanese and Global Markets.  Please visit www.docomoinnovations.com for more information.

Mountain View, Calif. – September 13, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced that it has been named to VentureWire’s FASTech 50 list of the most innovative technology start-ups. The editors of Dow Jones VentureWire and a board of leading venture capitalists selected Couchbase from a pool of hundreds of venture-backed companies.

“Venture capitalists are always searching for start-ups that are developing truly original technology with the potential to transform the marketplace,” said Scott Austin, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. “The FASTech 50 cuts through the clutter of me-too start-ups to highlight companies developing the most innovative and investment-worthy technologies.”

The VentureWire FASTech 50 is an annual list of technology start-ups, which are selected as deserving special interest from investors. The theme of this year’s list was innovation, and to be eligible, companies must be based in the U.S., be venture-backed and also have launched a product within the last three years that breaks from conventional methods, introduces a novel technology or markedly advances an existing product or service.

“We’re honored to be among the most innovative startups selected by VentureWire,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “This distinction reflects Couchbase’s leadership in NoSQL and further validates our unique approach in delivering scalable database technologies that today power many of the world’s leading web applications.”

To view the entire FASTech 50 list, visit http://fastech.dowjones.com/index.php/speakers#fastech50.

Additional Online Resources

• Register for a CouchConf event
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

Mountain View, Calif. – September 1, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced a worldwide tour of CouchConf developer conferences, taking place over the next six months in six major cities: New York City, Chicago, Berlin, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

“Following the recent success of CouchConf in San Francisco, we are now bringing one-day events to developers across the globe, giving users everywhere the opportunity to learn and network with others in the Couch community,” said Damien Katz, Couchbase CTO and creator of Apache CouchDB. “Interest in Couch technology is soaring, especially with the recent developer preview of Couchbase Server 2.0, and we are excited to provide the community with in-depth technical sessions, how-to sessions on development and deployment, and first-hand information on what’s coming next on the Couchbase roadmap.”

Conference dates and online registration are available on the CouchConf World Tour website, where attendees can purchase early bird tickets and also get call for papers information.

Conference Agenda Highlights:

• Technology updates and a look ahead from Couchbase technologists
• New product demonstrations including Couchbase Server 2.0 and Couchbase Mobile
• A technically rich core agenda, packed with breakout sessions on Couchbase and related technologies (Apache CouchDB, Membase, Memcached) including:
  • Intro to Document Databases
  • Developing with Couchbase
  • Querying and Indexing
  • Best Practices for Good Document Design
  • Couchbase in Production 24×7
  • Database Synchronization and Replication
  • Mobile App Development and CouchSync
• Application stories and best practice sessions from the community
• Hacking and networking opportunities in the Couchbase Lounge and After Party

Conference Locations and Dates:

• CouchConf NYC: October 24, 2011
• CouchConf Berlin: November 7, 2011
• CouchConf Chicago: November 16, 2011
• CouchConf Bangalore: December 7, 2011
• CouchConf Israel: December 19, 2011
• CouchConf Tokyo: January 2012

Additional Online Resources

• Register for a CouchConf event
• Sponsor a CouchConf event
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0 Developer Preview
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Like Couchbase on Facebook

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 10, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today announced it has secured $14 million in a Series C round of financing led by venture capital firm Ignition Partners with participation from the company’s existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company has also reserved an additional $1 million for investment from strategic customers and partners. The new funding will be used to further invest in NoSQL product development, support the adoption and growth of Couchbase in enterprise organizations, and support international expansion.

Funding Highlights

• On the heels of its inaugural CouchConf developer conference, held July 29 in San Francisco with more than 300 attendees from around the world, Couchbase announced a Series C round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $30 million.
• Building upon the merger of Membase and CouchOne in February and the announcement last week of Couchbase Server 2.0, the company’s first integrated product release, Couchbase will use the new funding to accelerate the delivery of simple, fast and elastic NoSQL database technologies, grow the company in the enterprise market, and expand internationally.
• Couchbase will also dedicate resources to support its rapidly growing community through expanded technical education and community events

Supporting Quotes

• “Since Couchbase released its first NoSQL database products last October, their business has grown rapidly and they have emerged as the leader in the NoSQL database market,” said Frank Artale, general partner of Ignition Partners.  “Couchbase’s document-oriented NoSQL database, proven ability to scale from one to hundreds of nodes, and its unique mobile strategy give the company a clear advantage as market growth accelerates.”
• “The growth of Couchbase’s business, production deployments, and community over a short period of time has been remarkable,” said Kevin Efrusy, general partner of Accel.  “The use of NoSQL database technology is quickly expanding beyond internet-based Web 2.0 companies to enterprises.  As more companies increasingly become aware of NoSQL success stories, we expect the market to continue to expand rapidly – and Couchbase is uniquely positioned to take advantage of that expansion.”
• “Since the merger that formed Couchbase earlier this year, the adoption and production deployments of Couchbase technology has been very strong and accelerating,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase. “With the recent release of Couchbase Server 2.0, our groundbreaking NoSQL solution, we expect our business to accelerate even further. The additional financing gives us the ability to invest more aggressively in this rapidly growing market and continue to anticipate and meet the needs of customers who rely on Couchbase NoSQL technology.”

Additional Resources

• Visit www.couchbase.com
• Download Couchbase Server 2.0
• Follow @Couchbase on Twitter
• Read Couchbase blog