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SANTA CLARA, Calif.–August 25, 2020– Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced its fully-managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), Couchbase Cloud, is now available for purchase in AWS Marketplace. Availability in AWS Marketplace provides further accessibility to customers looking for a best-in-class, fully-managed DBaaS with one of the lowest TCOs on the market.

Announced earlier this summer, Couchbase Cloud is a fully managed version of Couchbase Server, the original multi-purpose NoSQL database. Couchbase Server combines the high-performance, memory-first architecture of key-value stores with its SQL-friendly query language, robust developer SDKs, schema-flexible JSON format, all deployed as an elastically scaling, ACID compliant, globally replicating cluster architecture. Couchbase Cloud combines this power and versatility to allow customers to support an array of highly available applications and use cases such as online session caching, user profiles and catalog management for retailers, media content providers and enterprises that must adapt to our new, online-only world.

The quickly evolving economy is accelerating digital transformation in almost every organization, bringing equal parts opportunity and cost control pressure to IT. Couchbase Cloud helps organizations capitalize on both goals through:

● Versatility and performance of Couchbase Server, combined with emerging best practice of in-virtual private cloud (VPC) deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allow customers to dramatically lower operational costs of traditional deployments without giving up critical control over data and security

● “Single pane of glass” control plane for multicloud management and cross data center replication (XDCR), making it even simpler to manage and deploy multiple clusters across clouds in multiple regions

● Transparent, customer-friendly configuration and licensing that combine with the software’s best-in-class, node-for-node performance to deliver exceptionally low TCO for the generation of applications that serve today’s online-only user communities

Supporting Quotes

“AWS Marketplace streamlines the selection, provisioning, procurement, and tracking process for database-as-a-service solutions on AWS. We are pleased to welcome Couchbase Cloud to AWS Marketplace to help enterprises quickly drive down the cost of operations for their business applications.”
–Chris Grusz, Director, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

“Increasingly we are seeing the need to optimize costs while improving agility and innovation as two driving factors that are accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and as-a-service offerings like Couchbase Cloud. The availability of Couchbase Cloud in AWS Marketplace makes it even easier for customers to get started with Couchbase and maximize their return on investment while staying competitive.”
–Matt McDonough, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Couchbase

“Couchbase Cloud coupled with AWS has the best pricing and performance we’ve seen from a DBaaS. We’ve reduced costs by 50% and increased performance by 2,000%.”
–Scott W. Bradley, Principal Engineer, Facet Digital

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 25, 2020 — Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that CFO Greg Henry will be conducting a fireside chat at the BMO 2020 Virtual Technology Summit taking place August 27, 2020.

Henry will be speaking from 12:00 p.m. to 12:25 p.m. Pacific Time with one-on-one meetings to be held during that same day. A live webcast of Henry’s chat will be available at the following link. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com 
 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — August 24, 2020 — Couchbase, creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced open registration for its first ever virtual global developer conference, Couchbase Connect.ONLINE, taking place October 14-15. The free two-day online event, themed “Develop Your Path,” will bring together Couchbase customers, partners, and developers, alongside thought leaders and Couchbase’s own team of experts to discuss topics including Couchbase Server, mobile, Kubernetes, query & indexing, analytics, development tips, and cloud deployment.

With presentations from UPS, CenterEdge, Loonycorn, and Trendyol, among others, Couchbase Connect.ONLINE will host more than 60 workshop sessions to give attendees the specific advice and insights they need to build new applications and services. Attendees will be able to interact live with presenters and Couchbase technical experts throughout their sessions and during special “office hours.”

“Couchbase’s mission is to help organizations compete by accelerating the innovation of their business critical applications, which starts with arming developers with the right tools for the job,” said Peter Finter, SVP and CMO of Couchbase. “Couchbase Connect.ONLINE is an interactive opportunity for attendees to learn about Couchbase from our technical teams as well as customers and partners. And this year we’ve expanded the agenda with a focus on the Couchbase community, including open source users and engineers, to take the conversation even further.”

Couchbase Connect.ONLINE 2020 will also feature the inaugural Couchbase Community Awards program, recognizing organizations and individuals throughout the Couchbase community who are accelerating the modernization of legacy databases and enabling innovation for enterprise-critical applications. Nominations are now open, using the online entry form.

Finally, there is still time to submit a session to present at Couchbase Connect.ONLINE: users who want to share their expertise or experiences can submit here.

Click to tweet: Save the Date! #Couchbase Connect.ONLINE 2020 is coming October 14-15. Read the news for more details about this free event: https://bit.ly/2DRXBoZ

Resources:

• Event Agenda

• Register for Couchbase Connect.ONLINE here

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–August 13, 2020— Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced Couchbase Server has been voted “Best Database Overall” in the 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards. In addition, Couchbase also won the “Best In-Memory Database” category for the third consecutive year and made a strong showing as a finalist in the categories of “Best NoSQL Database” for Couchbase Server, “Best IoT Solution” for Couchbase Mobile, and “Best Cloud Database” for Couchbase Cloud. Building on Couchbase’s industry leading product and pace of innovation, the recognition coincides with the general availability of Couchbase Server 6.6, available for download today. 

“After adding multi-document distributed ACID transaction support in Couchbase 6.5, our release-defining features in version 6.6 raise the bar in the areas of cloud integration, index management, and analytics,” said Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO of Couchbase. “The enhanced analytics provide insights into data stored externally in S3 as well data in multiple Couchbase operational databases while the new Flex Indexes exponentially simplifies index management for developers. And with the ability to backup directly to S3, Couchbase 6.6, overall, greatly improves developer and operational agility.” 

Strengthening its support for hybrid transactional and analytic processing (HTAP) workloads, Couchbase 6.6 has extended its analytic offering by enabling the construction of dedicated analytic clusters that use “Remote Links” to consolidate operational data from multiple Couchbase clusters for larger, more cost-effective analysis. The analytics service also adds the ability to access and analyze “External Data” in standard file formats such as JSON, .CSV and .TSV from AWS S3. The combination of these features dramatically extends how a Couchbase cluster dedicated to analytics can collect, process and return real-time data to its peer clusters hosting operational applications such as profile and activity-based recommendation systems like instant, point-of-sale, mobile coupon delivery. 

Couchbase 6.6 introduces two clever and helpful indexing capabilities for application developers who would rather not need to think about indexes. First, it has promoted its “Index Advisor” functionality from its developer preview inclusion in Couchbase 6.5. Index Advisor analyzes N1QL (“Nickel”) queries and returns advice on what indexes to use or build to optimally expedite results. This feature is also available as a free service at index-advisor.couchbase.com for any N1QL query.   

Flex Indexes are an additional innovation, and a database first. Flex Indexes allow N1QL queries to use indexes from Full Text Search to simplify complex query selections as often found in ad-hoc and forms-based queries. Like Index Advisor, Flex Indexes remove the need for developers to contemplate what or how to index their database. 

Additional features in version 6.6 include: 1) geospatial searches to support polygon areas, 2) multiple timer and timer cancellation capabilities for the Eventing service, 3) backup capabilities that enable backups to AWS S3 and S3-compatible object stores, 4) enterprise security enhancements that include non-root installation options, and 5) data import capabilities are now included in the Couchbase UI.

Couchbase 6.6 will be a featured product at Couchbase Connect.ONLINE, the annual NoSQL developer conference taking place October 14 – 15, 2020. The event is free and early registration is now open.

Read the Blogs:

• What’s New in Couchbase Server 6.6

• Announcing Flex Index with Couchbase

• Intro to Remote Links

• Intro to External Datasets

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 30, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, its award-winning, fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Couchbase Cloud is initially available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform available by year-end.

The quickly-evolving economy is accelerating digital transformation in almost every organization, bringing equal parts opportunity and cost control pressure to IT. Couchbase Cloud helps organizations capitalize on both goals through:

• Versatility and performance of Couchbase Server, combined with emerging best practice of in-virtual private cloud (VPC) deployment on AWS, which allow customers to dramatically lower operational costs of traditional deployments without giving up critical control over data and security

• “Single pane of glass” control plane for multicloud management and cross data center replication (XDCR), making it even simpler to manage and deploy multiple clusters across clouds in multiple regions

• Transparent, customer-friendly configuration and licensing that combine with the software’s best-in-class, node-for-node performance to deliver exceptionally low TCO for the generation of applications that serve today’s online-only user communities

The Power and Versatility of Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server is the original multi-purpose NoSQL database that inspired the evolution of competitive, yet still incomplete, platforms such as MongoDB Cloud Platform. Couchbase Server combines the high-performance, memory-first architecture of key-value stores with its SQL-friendly query language, robust developer SDKs, schema-flexible JSON format, all deployed as an elastically scaling, ACID compliant, globally replicating cluster architecture. Couchbase Cloud combines this power and versatility to allow customers to support an array of highly available applications and use cases such as online session caching, user profiles and catalog management for retailers, media content providers and enterprises that must adapt to our new, online-only world.

Emerging best-practice of In-VPC deployment on AWS: Manage your data and AWS Infrastructure 

In-VPC deployment on AWS uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy and manage Couchbase software directly within the customers’ cloud accounts, allowing tight performance-matching of the database to its underlying infrastructure, affording customers the same degree of control they enjoyed when running their own data centers, yet at a fraction of the cost. This deployment technique offers customers the ability to utilize and manage:

• AWS best-practice security policies and data sovereignty preferences

• Data movement costs

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance selection

• Configuration of instances per cluster

• Application of negotiated AWS discounts they have earned to their account, not ours.

Control Couchbase cluster configurations via a single, omniscient control plane
Couchbase Cloud deployments are managed by its Control Plane, which provides DevOps administrators relief in overseeing global deployments by providing:

• Automated oversight of elastic scaling, upgrades, availability, monitoring & alerts across all clusters and all clouds

• Fine-grained control using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) to performance-match application workloads to its Couchbase services to their underlying AWS instances to optimize resource consumption

Control cloud data movement with Cross Datacenter Replication (XDCR)
Through its XDCR capability, Couchbase Cloud enables global, filtered replication of cluster contents to any cluster location, enabling customers to support data sovereignty requirements and:

• Automatically manage data migration, backup, disaster recovery to & from hybrid clouds, and intra-region for GDPR & other regulations

• Avoid CSP vendor lock-in with the ability to replicate data to Azure & GCP when available

The convergence of raw performance power and transparent policies combine to create the lowest TCO available for NoSQL DBaaS
Couchbase Cloud delivers exceptional value by keeping operational costs elastic and as low as possible. This is due to the convergence of Couchbase policies and the performance of Couchbase Server, which is well documented for node-for-node performance advantages over competitors. Public and private benchmarks have measured Couchbase performing 2 to 20 times faster than competitive offerings on like-for-like infrastructures, and MDS allows deployments to performance-match workloads to their infrastructure nodes. Consequently, Couchbase Cloud enables customers to dramatically lower IaaS resource spending over alternatives.

Couchbase combines performance advantage with highly transparent licensing policies that allow customers to construct their own cost comparisons and make clear choices. Benefits include:

• Hourly or pre-paid credits with no minimum monthly limits

• No margin-stacking by hiding IaaS within subscription

• Customer configures & grows IaaS at the pace of dev/test/production/growth phases

• 20%+ discount of pre-paid credits combined with 75%+ discounts for AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) in private offer billing

• Choice of SLA-levels per cluster with Developer Pro & Enterprise options, saving over 35% with relaxed SLAs

• Avoiding cloud service provider lock-in from using vendor specific applications

Availability

Couchbase Cloud makes its debut on AWS today and is available immediately as a 30-day trial, which runs inside the customer’s AWS account. It is offered in two packages, Developer Pro and Enterprise, which offer differentiated service level guarantees for development and testing needs versus business-critical support for production systems. Support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform will be available by year end. For more information visit https://couchbase.com/products/cloud/

Supporting quotes

“We are delighted to be working with Couchbase and applaud their customer-first approach. As an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), Couchbase has been working with AWS for years, contributing to the continued adoption, growth, and potential of cloud technology. With Couchbase Cloud’s in-VPC deployment with Amazon EKS, customers can continue to meticulously manage their data and cloud operations globally, while reducing operational costs.”
— Bob Wise, General Manager, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

“As long-time Couchbase customers, we’ve evolved and grown our retail and logistics platform business with Couchbase. We are very pleased to see the continuous innovation from the company–from Couchbase Server to Couchbase Mobile, and now Couchbase Cloud. Couchbase Cloud availability on AWS is a perfect marriage of our NoSQL strategy with our cloud provider, AWS. We are looking forward to deploying Couchbase Cloud on AWS – enabling us to continue our global growth, maintain our reputation for rapid delivery and further reduce our operational complexity.”
— Gary O’Connor, CTO, Doddle

“There is no equal to Couchbase Cloud. It has the best pricing and performance we have seen from a DBaaS offering.  By switching to Couchbase Cloud, we reduced cost by 10x and increased performance by 100x.”
— Scott Bradley, Principal Engineer, Facet Digital

“Our greatest priority is always going to be developing new applications. The ease of deploying in Couchbase Cloud, from the initial implementation to spinning up more instances on-demand, coupled with the fact we can follow best practices in data management as if we were in our own datacenter, means that we can concentrate on development instead of ensuring our cloud service works the way we want it to.”
–Bala Krishna Alla, Middleware Engineer, MoneyGram International

“Flexibility is a key driver for enterprises when it comes to moving to the cloud — flexibility with IT management, developing and testing, deployment options like multicloud, user access, and most importantly, pricing. With its dynamic pricing options and In-VPC deployment, Couchbase Cloud offers the flexibility and control that are attractive to today’s enterprises as they look to maximize their ROI while staying competitive.”
–Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“The need to optimize costs while also improving agility and innovation is accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud and as-a-service offerings. However, for many there are still factors that inhibit that move, from losing control of data sovereignty to being forced into price points and service levels that prevent cost optimization. With Couchbase Cloud, our goal is to break down those barriers, giving customers the same control of data and costs as they would have in their own datacenter, and allowing them to take full advantage of the cloud’s potential for supporting innovation and agile development on their own terms.”
— Scott Anderson, SVP, Product Management & Business Operations, Couchbase

“Couchbase is widely recognized as the most powerful and versatile NoSQL database available in the market today.  As Enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption plans, Couchbase Cloud now offers them the opportunity to transform their businesses at a reduced TCO and without losing control of their data,” said Couchbase President and CEO Matt Cain.  “With more enterprises than ever migrating to both NoSQL databases and cloud deployments, we will continue to expand our cloud-native product portfolio and continue the momentum that has seen more than 500 enterprises, including over 30% of the Fortune 100, rely on the Couchbase NoSQL database.”
— Matt Cain, President and CEO, Couchbase

Resources:

• Read more about Couchbase Cloud

• Read the blog

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 17, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that CFO Greg Henry will be participating at Citi’s Private Company Growth Conference, a virtual event, on June 18th, 2020.

The panel, titled, “‘Being Data-Driven in a Digitized World,” takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. PT. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 21, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that it has completed a $105 million all-equity Series G round of fundraising.  The latest funding round, led by GPI Capital, also included oversubscribed participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, Adams Street Partners, and Mayfield.  Proceeds from this financing will be used to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.

Today more than 500 enterprises, including over 30% of the Fortune 100, rely on the Couchbase NoSQL database.  In its latest fiscal year, Couchbase delivered over 70% total contract value growth, 50%+ new business growth, and 35%+ growth in average subscription deal size.  The company has nearly $100M in committed annual recurring revenue.

Couchbase is accelerating its trajectory and will use the funding to build further differentiation in already industry leading products and services, while simultaneously expanding its customer facing operations.  The company will complement feature development in its best-in-class enterprise NoSQL server and mobile database platform with Couchbase Cloud™, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service offering.  Now, more than ever, enterprises are accelerating their migration to both NoSQL databases and cloud deployments to increase agility and flexibility while simultaneously reducing costs.

“To be competitive today, enterprises must transform digitally and use technology to get closer to their customers and improve the productivity of their workforces.  To do so, they require a cloud-native database built specifically to support modern web, mobile and IoT applications.  Application developers and enterprise architects rely on Couchbase to enable agile application development on a platform that performs at scale, from the public cloud to the edge, and provides operational simplicity and reliability,” said Couchbase President and CEO Matt Cain. “More and more, the largest companies in the world truly run their businesses on Couchbase, architecting their most business-critical applications on our platform.  This has become even more pronounced today as all companies are closely evaluating their digital strategies while carefully managing their capital allocation plans. Completing this funding round in the current climate is a testament to the importance of modern databases and the relevance of Couchbase as we continue our path to becoming a large, public company.”

“We are excited to partner with Couchbase and view Couchbase Server’s highly performant, distributed architecture as purpose-built to support mission critical use cases at scale,” said Alex Migon, Partner of GPI Capital and new member of the company’s board of directors. “Couchbase has developed a truly enterprise grade product, with leading support for cutting-edge application development and deployment needs.  We are thrilled to contribute to the next stage of the company’s growth.”

Khai Ha, Partner at GPI Capital, added, “Having evaluated how companies innovate across a wide variety of industries and are increasingly turning to modern non-relational databases for their operational needs, we were pleased to see the increasing awareness of and growth acceleration at Couchbase. We look forward to serving as a partner to the company over the coming years.”

The latest funding round occurs at a time when companies across all industries are looking to increase their investment in solutions that enable powerful digital experiences for both employees and customers. This reality is that the database market will undergo a generational market transition over the next many years.  The market is already worth over $100 billion, and  the NoSQL database market in particular is projected to grow at 32% CAGR from 2018-2023, according to 451 Research.

Since January, the company was named to JMP Securities’ Hot 100 List of Best Privately-Held Software Companies, has earned Top Rated 2020 Awards from TrustRadius for Best NoSQL Database, and was named a 2020 Bay Area Best Place to Work.  Couchbase’s growing list of customers include American Express, Cisco, Comcast/Sky, Disney, LinkedIn, Tesco and more.

Resources
● Read the blog.

About GPI Capital
GPI Capital is an alternative investment firm specializing in leading growth equity investments in technology, consumer and industrial companies. GPI focuses on identifying high quality businesses looking to accelerate growth and execute on transformational opportunities with an engaged and value-add partner. For more information about GPI, please visit http://www.gpicap.com/.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Apr. 28, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced Version 2.0 of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (“Autonomous Operator”), the most mature and advanced operator in the industry. As enterprises continue to move to the cloud, DevOps, and microservices architectures, Autonomous Operator Version 2.0 helps to:

• Empower Developers: Unlocks developers’ productivity with self-service access to the database while standardizing development, test, pre-production, and production environment. It also avoids database silos by running, managing, and scaling the Couchbase database next to microservices applications on the same Kubernetes platform. 

• Create Business Agility: Accelerates development of responsive cloud-native applications thanks to the cloud-agnostic application deployment and management platform that enables developers to migrate between clouds freely. Autonomous Operator also allows users to manage growth with on-demand scaling easily.

• Streamline Operations and Costs: Reduces DevOps workload by running Couchbase as an autonomous, fully managed stateful database application; specifically, it reduces operational complexity up to 95% by implementing the operational best practices that most efficiently deploy and manage Couchbase.

As a result, organizations have greater freedom than ever to develop, test, and roll out innovative new services. 

Reducing operational complexity through automation

Autonomous Operator users have already reported a 95 percent reduction in operational complexity, which has resulted in a significant reduction in operational costs. Version 2.0 further streamlines  complex management tasks with a host of new features, including: Automated User & RBAC  Management, Automatic Backup & Restore Management, and Auto-Configuration of Cross Datacenter Replication Management. With these new features, Autonomous Operator continues to help enterprises transition from legacy systems to lower-cost cloud native systems in a dramatically simplified fashion.

Reducing risk through greater control and visibility

As well as reducing operational costs through automation, Version 2.0 gives users control and visibility, including: a Fine-Grained advanced Kubernetes Operator Security Model, Certificate Management using Mutual TLS Support, and Centralized Monitoring and Alerting using Prometheus, the de-facto cloud-native standard. No matter the number of database clusters they deploy, organizations can be confident they have complete oversight and are minimizing risks.

Simplifying deployment by eliminating database silos in a microservices architecture 

The Autonomous Operator enables Couchbase Server to be run next to microservices applications on the same Kubernetes platform. This eliminates infrastructure silos caused by having to run stateful database applications separately to the container-based microservices they support,  which accelerates the time to market of applications by simplifying deployment and reducing the DevOps workload. Version 2.0 adds Simplified Deployment for Couchbase Sync Gateway in Kubernetes alongside Autonomous Operator, enabling further simplification of deploying edge applications and connecting them to the central databases deployed in the cloud.  

Supporting hybrid and multi-cloud by eliminating vendor lock-in

As more businesses adopt a ‘cloud-first’ strategy and race to adopt hybrid or multi-cloud architecture, a major concern is vendor lock-in; finding that options are constrained because the capabilities needed will only operate on certain infrastructures. With Autonomous Operator, enterprises can run a Couchbase cluster on any cloud, including Red Hat OpenShift, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). 

Supporting quotes

“We are pleased to see another great update of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator in version 2.0. We’ve experienced the beta version and tested many of the features, including LDAP Support and Custom Annotations, which will ease our cloud migration journey. Also in version 2.0, we will be able to automate most of our database tasks, which will help with reducing our physical server footprint. Overall, the newer version of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 for Kubernetes is a visionary technology that is focused on automating data management with new added features that effectively reduces human effort and time.”
–Girirajan Soundar Rajan, Senior Data Operations Engineer, Staples

“As part of our DevOps team at CenterEdge, I maintain both traditional Couchbase clusters and ones running inside Kubernetes using Couchbase Autonomous Operator, and there is no comparison between the two. Managing a traditional cluster is something I always dread because it consumes a large portion of my time when maintenance is required, whereas the Kubernetes cluster is easy and a joy to maintain. I am looking forward to using the new resource model and trying out the Backup Management features in version 2.0.”
–Tom Crozier, DevOps Engineer, CenterEdge Software

“Containerizing stateful applications like database technology was practically unheard of just two years ago, yet at that point, Couchbase had already launched its first version of an autonomous operator for Kubernetes. The latest version of their operator will make it even easier to set up Couchbase in a hybrid or private cloud environment to behave more like a fully managed cloud database-as-a-service experience, greatly reducing the friction of deployment.”
— Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC

“The great attraction of microservices has always been the ability to deploy hundreds of database clusters – whether for development, test, pre-production or production – in whatever region they are most needed. To support this, database architecture itself needs to transform. The Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes is an important step towards offering what the 21st century enterprise needs: a fully autonomous data management platform that greatly reduces the complexity of hundreds of data clusters, and the industry’s first cloud-native data platform.”
— Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase

Availability

Couchbase Autonomous Operator is Generally Available and offered as part of the Couchbase Enterprise subscription at no additional cost. 

Resources

• Read the blog

• Download Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 here

• Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes datasheet

About Couchbase

Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. As a distributed cloud-native database, Couchbase runs in modern dynamic environments and on any cloud, either customer-managed or fully managed as-a-service. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases. 

Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, American Express, Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast/Sky, Disney, eBay, LinkedIn, Marriott, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, as well as hundreds of other household names. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27, 2020 – Couchbase, Inc., the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, has been recognized as a winner of the 2020 Bay Area Best Places To Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  Couchbase also earned the Bay Area Workplace Wellness Award  among midsize businesses based on employee feedback and the company’s incorporation of wellness as a priority across the organization with specific focus on health offerings, benefits, and personal engagement.

“We believe the foundation of every great company is its world class team, and we are proud of the one we continue to build at Couchbase with the help of the feedback and recommendations gained through three years of participating in Bay Area Best Place to Work survey,” said Chris Galy, Chief People Officer, Couchbase. “Being recognized alongside the other great companies is true validation of our efforts to deliver employee experiences we can be proud of. We’ve created a culture that cares deeply about valuing our people and the value they create while driving incredible outcomes for our customers.  We are very pleased to see our collective efforts reflected in this year’s Best Places to Work results.”

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Couchbase employs a distributed, global workforce through office-based and remotely-based “work from anywhere” roles.  Couchbase provides an inclusive workplace where employees are valued highly, and in return, create the best experiences for customers. The Best Places to Work recognition comes on the heels of closing a successful fiscal year with headcount growth, strong business performance, and continued innovation. Currently, Couchbase calls over 30% of the Fortune 100 a valued customer who is running one or more of their most critical applications on Couchbase. 

Methodology

Award applicants were evaluated and ranked across five categories according to the number of Bay Area employees.  The ranking found companies in the region whose employees rate them as the highest on such values as fun, collaborative culture, solid compensation and benefits offerings and other amenities as well as management practices.  

About 2020 Bay Area Best Places to Work  

Best Places to Work is an innovative publication and awards program produced by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  The rankings were determined by surveys that went directly to employees who answered a series of questions.  The survey was administered online by the employers and through a service provided by Quantum Workplace, our research partner.  The rankings are numeric based on Quantum’s scoring process.  By ranking companies and sharing best practices we facilitate idea sharing and help other companies learn from the best.  

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 19, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced CFO Greg Henry will be presenting at the seventh annual JMP Securities Technology Conference at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, on February 24-25, 2020.

Henry is scheduled to present on Tuesday, February 25th at 10:30 a.m. PT. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 13, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Matt McDonough, Vice President of Business Development, to its 2020 list of Channel Chiefs. This annual list recognizes the top vendor executives who continually demonstrate exemplary leadership, influence, innovation, and growth for the IT channel. 

Matt McDonough, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and also Harvard Business School, has brought more than a decade of experience in business development, strategy, product management, and marketing to Couchbase. He is responsible for Couchbase’s worldwide partner strategy and execution across technology partners, solution partners, systems integrators, cloud service providers, and channel partners. 

“For two years in a row now, Matt has been named to CRN’s Channel Chiefs List, and that’s an impressive achievement for both him and Couchbase,” said Matt Cain, President and CEO of Couchbase. “Matt’s leadership has driven success of our global partners though Couchbase’s PartnerEngage program, equipping them with the technology, the skills, and the opportunities to grow their businesses and those of our end customers. CRN has recognized Matt as an elite channel leader, and we look forward to his continued success and that of our channel partner community.”

CRN’s 2020 Channel Chiefs list honors the distinguished leaders who have influenced the IT channel with cutting-edge strategies and partnerships. 

The 2020 Channel Chiefs have shown outstanding commitment, an ability to lead, and a passion for progress within the channel through their partner programs. The Channel Chief honorees were chosen by the CRN editorial staff for their dedication, industry prestige, and exceptional accomplishments in driving the channel agenda and evangelizing the importance of channel partnerships.

“The IT channel is undergoing constant evolution to meet customer demands and changing business environments,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “CRN’s Channel Chiefs work tirelessly, leading the industry forward through superior partner programs and strategies with a focus on helping solution providers transform and grow. Our team here at The Channel Company congratulates these outstanding individuals for their dedication to the channel.”

CRN’s 2020 Channel Chiefs list will be featured in the February 2020 issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today introduced Couchbase Cloud, a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Couchbase Cloud enables enterprises to host their data within their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for greater control and ownership, and pay for only what they use. Customers can now experience best-in-class performance and availability from the most powerful NoSQL database technology available to the market as a fully managed service. With this announcement, Couchbase becomes the first SQL-on-NoSQL DBaaS that supports multiple cloud providers. The service will launch this summer on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, followed by Google Cloud Platform. Early access is available by registering here. 

The Architectural Difference: Greater Control and Ownership
A key difference between Couchbase Cloud and other DBaaS solutions is the separation of the control plane and data plane, resulting in more flexibility and better economics.

• Data plane resides in Customer’s VPC: Customers have full control of their data together with a host of other benefits including higher performance, lower latency, and stronger security.
• “Single pane of glass” control plane for multicloud management: Built on the latest in cloud innovation, including open source technologies Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana, the fully automated control plane is used to conduct activities such as multicloud orchestration (where users can manage and deploy clusters across multiple clouds from one single view), user management, cluster management, monitoring, and billing–all from a single interface. 

Cost Performant: Flexible Procurement Options to Optimize TCO 

Couchbase Cloud decouples DBaaS from the underlying cloud infrastructure, which enables customers to purchase IaaS directly from their Cloud Service Provider and leverage reserved instance pricing to optimize total cost of ownership. 

Couchbase Cloud also provides users with flexible packaging options to optimize solution costs based on business requirements. One option is on-demand hourly pricing, and another is the ability to purchase Couchbase Credits that can be used over a one year period. The use of credits is fully flexible with no usage limitations during the one year period.

The Couchbase Difference: Best-In-Class Availability Within Any Cloud

Couchbase Cloud offers best-in-class availability that is unique to Couchbase Server. Thanks to its powerful cross datacenter replication (XDCR) capability, Couchbase is able to distribute across public cloud regions in an active-active configuration while providing data locality and disaster recovery. Built on the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase Server delivers unparalleled performance at scale, in any cloud. With features like memory-first architecture and multidimensional scaling, Couchbase Server excels at supporting business-critical applications at scale while maintaining submillisecond latencies and 99.999% availability. Plus, with the most comprehensive SQL-compatible query language (N1QL), indexing, full-text search, eventing, analytics and support for multi-document ACID transactions, among other services, Couchbase Server offers the broadest range of capabilities to enable application modernization and migration from RDBMS. 

Early Access Program

Couchbase will be running an early access program this spring. For more information on the product or to sign up for the invite-only early access program, please register here.

Supporting quotes

“As long-time Couchbase customers, we’ve evolved and grown with Couchbase. We are very pleased to have worked closely with Couchbase’s product management team over the past year to provide feedback and insights that have helped shape the direction of Couchbase Cloud. We look forward to the availability of Couchbase Cloud to support our cloud initiatives.”
— Julien Charlot, Database Leader, Adeo

“We are just now beginning to see people thinking about moving classic on-prem applications to the cloud. When that happens, substantial redevelopment is necessary, especially if the application is to be cloud native. With that level of change, all the components come into question, including the database management system, and there is greater openness to changing that technology than we have seen before. In this respect, Couchbase’s timing is just right. The market is ready for a fully managed, enterprise-class NoSQL database built for a multicloud environment.”
— Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC
 

“As enterprises continue to move their applications to the public cloud to increase business agility, they are looking for enterprise-class solutions that can deliver on their business-critical application requirements.  These requirements include security, high availability, reliability, manageability, performance at scale, and more. And in not just one cloud, but in multiple clouds, across clouds, and in hybrid cloud configurations. Working closely with our enterprise customers over the past two years, we’ve designed a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service offering that meets their most stringent requirements, leveraging the latest generation of open source technologies while retaining all the value of self-managed Couchbase Server, to deliver a uniquely powerful and differentiated offering to the market.”
— Scott Anderson, SVP, Product Management & Business Operations, Couchbase
 

Resources

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• Couchbase Capella datasheet

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 28, 2020 – Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced that it has reached a settlement with Redis Labs, Inc. (“Redis”) in connection with Couchbase’s trade secret litigation pending in the Superior Court of the State of California (Case No. 1-17-CV-307618). 

In March 2017, Couchbase filed a lawsuit alleging that current and former Redis employees misappropriated Couchbase trade secrets; Redis and the individual defendants denied Couchbase’s allegations. Under the parties’ settlement, Redis has agreed to return any Couchbase confidential and trade secret information in its possession and is permanently barred by Court order from soliciting, possessing, or using Couchbase trade secrets or confidential information in the future; the remaining terms of the parties’ settlement are confidential.  The litigation has been dismissed. Further details about the case can be found in public court documents.

“At Couchbase, we believe in acting with uncompromised integrity, period.  We also believe in attacking hard problems, driven by customer outcomes. We invest significant resources to both develop industry-leading innovation and to bring that innovation to the marketplace.  We hope that this settlement will serve as a reminder that integrity counts in the pursuit of building a great company.” 
— Matt Cain, President & CEO, Couchbase

SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 22, 2020—Couchbase today announced it has been named a winner in the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. 

Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database that drives the operations of more than 30% of the Fortune 100, was recognized for outstanding innovation in mobile technology. As enterprises look to accelerate the innovation of their enterprise critical applications, they rely on Couchbase’s cloud-native distributed database architecture that combines the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL– all in a single, elegant platform spanning from any cloud to the edge.

Couchbase Mobile extends the power of Couchbase Server to the edge of the network with an embedded NoSQL database solution that powers mobile and non-mobile embedded platforms and a data sync solution that is scalable, flexible and performant to meet the needs of a broad range of offline-first applications.  

Couchbase Mobile has been on the forefront of embedded database and sync technology, delivering a host of innovative industry-first features including Predictive Query. Predictive Query allows mobile applications to use trained Machine Learning (ML) models to run predictive queries locally on mobile devices against data stored in Couchbase Mobile. The predictions in the database can then be correlated with predictions made in real-time from device cameras and other local context sources.

In this retail use-case, for example, Predictive Query empowers employees and customers to easily access detailed inventory and product information using their phone’s camera. For instance, a customer may ask an employee, “What shirts do you have that match these pants I’m wearing?” Using a mobile app with Predictive Query, the employee can take a photo of the pants, the query can correlate the image of the pants with the product catalog stored on their phone, and the employee can answer that question like an expert — anytime and anywhere — online or offline. Read more about this capability in this blog post.

The latest version of Couchbase Mobile, version 2.7, became generally available this week and can be downloaded here with details on “What’s New” found here  and product overview here. 

“Couchbase has a rich history of innovation, right from the development of the cloud-versatile Couchbase Server through to Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Autonomous Operator,” said Ravi Mayuram, SVP of Engineering and CTO, Couchbase. “We’re honored to be recognized for innovating the next generation of mobile database capabilities that we expect will enable businesses to deliver game changing applications to their customers.”

“Innovation has become a major theme for organizations across virtually all industries and this year’s winners are a testament to the creativity, passion and perseverance of individuals worldwide,” said Maria Jimenez, chief operating officer of the Business Intelligence Group. “We are thrilled to be honoring Couchbase as they are leading by example and making real progress on improving the daily lives of so many.”

Organizations from across the globe submitted their recent innovations for consideration in the BIG Innovation Awards. Nominations were then judged by a select group of business leaders and executives who volunteer their time and expertise to score submissions.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 7, 2020 –Couchbase, the creator of the enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database, today announced CFO Greg Henry will be presenting at the 22nd Annual Needham Growth Conference taking place January 13-15, 2020 at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City.

Henry is scheduled to present on Tuesday, January 14th at 10:40 a.m. Eastern with one-on-one meetings to be held throughout that same day. For additional information, please contact IR@couchbase.com