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.
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.
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.
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 NoSQLÂ (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”
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 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
“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
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
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
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.”
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.”
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.”
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
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.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – CouchConf San Francisco – July 29, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, and SQLite, maker of the world’s most widely deployed SQL database engine, today announced the release into the public domain of a jointly developed NoSQL query language. Unstructured Data Query Language, or UnQL (pronounced “Uncle”), is a collaborative effort to bring a familiar and standardized data definition and manipulation language to the NoSQL domain. Both Couchbase and SQLite have committed to delivering products that embody the language. Available at www.unqlspec.org, further development of the language is open to participation from users, vendors and the academic community.
News Highlights:
UnQL is SQL-like in syntax, providing familiarity for application developers who grew up with that language, while providing additional capabilities to allow for selection and manipulation of complex document structures.
Damien Katz, Couchbase founder and inventor of CouchDB, the most widely deployed NoSQL database engine and D. Richard Hipp, inventor of SQLite, the most widely deployed SQL database engine led the initial efforts on UnQL. Both are committed to the implementation of UnQL in forthcoming product releases.
Selecting and operating on self-describing documents without a rigidly defined schema requires expressiveness unavailable in today’s SQL database solutions. With UnQL, developers get the structured table format of the relational database model plus the added flexibility of the NoSQL schema-free design.
Supporting Quotes:
Damien Katz, Couchbase CTO and creator of CouchDB: “The work we’ve done on UnQL has been very gratifying. UnQL stems from our belief that a common query language is necessary to drive NoSQL adoption in the same way SQL drove adoption in the relational database market. I look forward to continuing my work alongside SQLite to push this new language forward.”
D. Richard Hipp, inventor of SQLite: “Relational database technology – and the SQL query language – have served us very well for over forty years, but modern applications require far more flexibility at the data layer than those of generations past. UnQL builds upon our experience with SQL, supplementing that language with syntax and concepts appropriate for the unstructured, self-describing data formats of post-modern applications.”
Erik Meijer, Partner Architect, Microsoft: “One of the main arguments in our recent CACM article on coSQL was the industry needs a common query language and data model to feed the ecosystem for key-value stores. The UnQL language presents an important practical next step in this process. We are looking forward to working with Couchbase and other industry leaders in the NoSQL space on taking the design to the next level.”
Stephen O’Grady, Principal Analyst, RedMonk: “One of the primary use cases for non-relational databases is the storage and retrieval of unstructured information. What’s been lacking has been a standardized interface to this data, an unstructured equivalent to SQL. UnQL aims to address precisely this problem.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – CouchConf San Francisco – July 29, 2011 – Couchbase, the leading NoSQL database company, today released a developer preview of Couchbase Server 2.0, the company’s high-performance, highly scalable, document-oriented NoSQL database. Couchbase Server 2.0 combines the unmatched elastic data management capabilities of Membase Server with the distributed indexing, querying and mobile synchronization capabilities of Apache CouchDB, the most widely deployed open source document database, to deliver the industry’s most powerful, bullet-proof NoSQL database technology.
News Highlights:
Couchbase Server 2.0 integrates the industry’s most trusted and widely deployed open source data management technologies – CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached – to deliver the industry’s most powerful, reliable NoSQL database.
As the new foundational data storage technology for Couchbase 2.0, CouchDB reliably stores data without the corruption risk inherent in competing approaches. It also provides powerful indexing and distributed query capabilities.
Membase components contribute powerful cluster management technology, which enables linear scale-out of the data layer from one to 50 to hundreds of nodes as already proven in the world’s largest NoSQL production deployments. It also provides the enterprise-class management, monitoring, and alerting capabilities critical to operationally managing production data tiers.
Memcached, built into Couchbase Server, powers in-memory caching that enables consistently low-latency and high throughput, with sub-millisecond data reads and writes.
Couchbase Server 2.0 is a member of the Couchbase family of interoperable database servers – which also includes Couchbase Single Server and Couchbase Mobile. Unique to Couchbase, “CouchSync” technology allows each of these database systems to synchronize its data with any other. For example, mobile applications built with Couchbase Mobile can automatically synchronize data with a cloud- or datacenter-deployed Couchbase cluster whenever network connectivity is available.
Couchbase also announced its new Couchbase Certification Program. Recognizing that NoSQL database technology is increasingly being viewed as a core component in the modern web application development stack, Couchbase’s new program is designed to help developers and administrators demonstrate proficiency in the leading NoSQL database technology. The first certification exams for the new program were administered this week in conjunction with CouchConf San Francisco, the company’s developer conference.
Supporting Quotes
Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO: “The demand for NoSQL software continues to rise, and we are thrilled to be at the forefront of this dramatic shift in database technology. Hundreds of customers have deployed Couchbase in production, taking advantage of the ease of use and elastic scalability unique to our solution. Today’s release of Couchbase Server 2.0 provides an even more compelling solution for interactive web and mobile applications, and we’re excited to get it into the hands of our users.”
Curt Monash, President of Monash Research and Editor of DBMS 2: “There are use cases in which CouchDB and now Couchbase clobber competitors with respect to programming ease. And if you want to adopt memcached, Couchbase has become the obvious choice of technology stack.”
Drew Garner, Director of Architecture Services, Concur: “Deploying Couchbase solutions gives us greater scalability and blazing performance (sub-millisecond response times). We now have the ability to simply and fluidly increase capacity, enabling us to seamlessly respond to the needs of the application. Couchbase 2.0 adds indexing and querying to this mix – and we are looking forward to the added flexibility and power the new release provides..”
Shawn Chiao, Tribal Crossing Co-Founder: “What we appreciate most about Couchbase is the company’s commitment to deliver simplicity and elasticity in its database solutions. Our user base has tripled since we first deployed the technology, yet we’ve been able to scale seamlessly and manage our rapidly growing application without the need for a dedicated administrator. Couchbase Server 2.0 gives us even more to love, with robust and tried-and-true CouchDB technology at the core and the ability to view and filter data in ways that deliver even more value to our organization.”
Issac Roth, PaaS Master at Red Hat: “Red Hat’s OpenShift is a Platform-as-a-Service that makes it easier for developers to deploy and auto-scale the frameworks, middleware and data sources of their choice in the cloud. In line with the availability of Couchbase Server 2.0, we are announcing the availability of a Couchbase cartridge in OpenShift. Developers can now gain a flexible and scalable data store to build, run and manage applications at web scale in the cloud.”
Mark Baker, Product Management, Canonical: “Businesses today are dealing with ever larger unstructured data sets and Ubuntu offers the flexibility to scale to meet changing demands. The combination of Couchbase Server 2.0 and the Ubuntu operating system can bring organizations high availability, excellent performance and scalability, and truly enterprise-class support to handle their data management challenges, whether in the data center or the public cloud.”
Mountain View, Calif. – June 8, 2011 – Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created through the recent merger of CouchOne and Membase, today announced the general availability of Membase Server 1.7, the simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database designed and optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. A major new release of the software, Membase Server 1.7 offers a host of features and capabilities that provide even greater simplicity, scalability, and availability to make the system even more robust and production ready than any other NoSQL solution on the market.
News Highlights
Membase Server 1.7 delivers numerous enhancements, many of which reflect the most-requested features from customers using the system in large-scale cluster environments. Key new features include:
Advanced cluster monitoring capabilities. Widely considered the most “production ready” of the NoSQL database solutions, Membase Server takes operational readiness to a whole new level with the most robust instrumentation and monitoring capability available. (See the video blog to see the new monitoring capabilities in action across a 100-node Membase Server cluster.) Nearly seven dozen system parameters are now tracked and displayed in real time, including historical trend data over a variety of time periods. Administrators gain insight into system behavior and performance, permitting capacity planning, early detection of trends that could lead to degraded performance and rapid troubleshooting of problems to ensure continuous availability of the database.
Built-in alerting. New functionality notifies administrators when critical system parameters are out of their expected range, increasing uptime without requiring constant administrator attention.
In-place upgrade support through package management systems. This feature dramatically simplifies upgrades by working with native package management systems to perform all upgrade steps and move data to the new version. Membase Server 1.7 also provides notification through the management console when a new upgrade is available.
Improved rebalance capability. Membase Server 1.7 improves safety during rebalance while minimizing data movement across the network, resulting in reduced network bandwidth and increased robustness of the rebalancing process, both crucial in today’s cloud environments.
Membase Server 1.7 binary packages, both Enterprise and Community Editions, as well as source code are available for download. More information on all Couchbase technologies can be found at the recently unveiled couchbase.org, home of the Couchbase open source community.
Membase open source technology provides a distributed key-value database with integrated memcached caching technology, enabling dynamic cluster elasticity and sustained low-latency, high-throughput data operations. Its core technology powers 18 of the top 20 largest websites; and few web applications now enter production without it. Organizations such as Zynga, AOL and ShareThis use Membase Server to dramatically lower data management costs while improving the scalability and performance of their demanding interactive web applications.
Supporting Quotes
Mazdak Rezvani, VP of engineering for Chango, a Toronto-based search retargeting business: “Membase is an important part of our ability to serve ads with lightning fast speed. We count on the power of Membase 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. We love the new and beautiful GUI features Membase Server 1.7 provides, and are excited to roll it into production.”
Frank Weigel, director of product management, Couchbase: “Our production users are hungry for advanced features in scalability and operational readiness – and Membase Server 1.7 delivers on both. Enhanced elasticity makes it even easier and more transparent to scale out and rebalance your cluster, while comprehensive monitoring and alerting gives even greater visibility into the ongoing cluster health and status. With these advancements, Couchbase continues to lead the way in production readiness and maturity among NoSQL databases.”
A part of the Couchbase product family, Membase Server is the industry’s lowest latency, highest throughput NoSQL database. A distributed key-value data store, Membase Server is designed and optimized for the data management needs of interactive web applications. It allows the database layer to scale out just like the web application logic tier – simply by adding more commodity servers.
