NoSQL Leader Couchbase Announces $14 Million Series C Funding

Rapid growth attracts investment led by Ignition Partners as demand for production-proven
NoSQL database solutions accelerates

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.

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Couchbase Announces Major Improvements to CouchDB

Couchbase, the company formed when CouchOne and Membase merged, has announced several performance improvements to the underlying CouchDB database.

According to their blog they achieved the following performance improvements:

• Disk write performance gains.  Bulk loading of documents is now two to three times (2x-3x) faster.

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Couchbase Releases Beta for Mobile Couchbase for iOS

iPhone and iPad developers now have access to the market’s leading NoSQL database technology, and the only one providing native mobile-to-cloud data synchronization

Mountain View, Calif. – May 2, 2011 – Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created via the recent merger of CouchOne and Membase, today announced immediate availability of a Mobile Couchbase for iOS beta release. Mobile Couchbase is powered by Apache CouchDB technology, invented by Couchbase CTO Damien Katz. Joining the Couchbase family of NoSQL data management solutions, Mobile Couchbase is the first NoSQL database available to native iOS application developers and the only one to provide transparent mobile-to-cloud data synchronization. With Mobile Couchbase, developers can build native iOS applications that automatically synchronize locally-stored data to a cloud- or datacenter-deployed Couchbase whenever network connectivity is available.

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Couchbase Announces Membase Server for Mac OS X

Couchbase announced yesterday the release of the Membase Community Edition for Mac OS X. With this release Membase is now supported on Windows, Mac OS X, Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux. Jon Prall, VP of Ops at Tango, had this to say about the release:

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Couchbase Introduces Board of Advisors

Provider of Most Comprehensive Family of NoSQL Data Management Solutions Assembles Industry Experts From Cloudera, Facebook, Google, Zynga and Others

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (March 14, 2011) - Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, today introduced a board of advisors stacked with industry executives, Internet pioneers and database technology luminaries that will play a significant role in shaping the company's strategy and technical direction.

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Couchbase Announces General Availability of Couchbase Server

Available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, Couchbase Server Is Powered by the World's Most Widely Deployed NoSQL Database Technology, Apache CouchDB, Created by Couchbase Founder Damien Katz

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (March 14, 2011) - Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, today released Couchbase Server, which is powered by the world's most widely deployed NoSQL database technology, Apache CouchDB. CouchDB has more than 10 million desktop deployments, and organizations worldwide rely on CouchDB's unique replication and sync capabilities, including Apple, The BBC, CERN and Mozilla. In addition, CouchDB supports more than 1.5 million users as the core database behind Canonical's Ubuntu One cloud service.

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CouchDB Training World Tour

Couchbase is preparing to hold several training sessions all over the world over the next few weeks. Each training session is 2-days and will cover a myriad of topics. Three courses are being offered at each training session. A complete description of each course is listed below.

• Introduction to CouchDB – One day covering CouchDB development essentials. A key project committer and Couchbase trainer Alan McKean will cover Internals, API fundamentals, Document basics and Views. Workshops will include ample hands-on practice and Q & A time.
• Advanced CouchDB – One day covering advanced CouchDB development. A key project committer and Couchbase trainer Alan McKean will cover Map/Reduce, Replication, Consuming Changes Feeds, Conflict Management and more.

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BioGPS: A CouchDB Case Study

CouchDB, which is now Couchbase, has posted a CouchDB case study. This specific case study focuses on BioGPS. BioGPS is "an extensible and customizable gene annotation portal that is freely available to the biological research community". According to the case study, gene annotation data has a complex and heterogenous data structure. As a result CouchDB's key-document design was a "natural fit".

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Q & A with James Phillips and Damien Katz of Couchbase

Last week CouchOne and Membase announced their merger to form Couchbase. Both James Phillips and Damien Katz were kind enough to take some of their time to answer some questions about the merger.

NoSQL DB: How did the merger come about, what was the catalyst?

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Ask James Phillips and Damien Katz About Couchbase

Obviously one of the biggest NoSQL stories this week was the announced merger of CouchOne and Membase. Like me I'm sure some of you have questions about this merger. Fortunately, James Phillips and Damien Katz have made themselves available to answer those questions.

If you have a question for them go ahead and leave it in the comment section of this post or submit them here. Next week we will have their answers.

CouchOne + Membase = Couchbase

No this is not new math. However, it is true when you take a dash of CouchOne and sprinkle in a little Membase you get Couchbase. CouchOne and Membase have merged together to create "the First Comprehensive, End-to-End NoSQL Database".

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