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Diversity makes us stronger – Couchbase values
Over the last few days everyone has been talking about President Trump and the actions he has taken in his first few days in office. One positive consequence of Trump’s recent action on refugees and immigrants is that it has...
Couchbase Named One of the Best Private Cloud Companies to Work for by Glassdoor
We’ve had lots to celebrate at Couchbase lately and today I’m happy to announce that we have been named one of the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to Work for” in a recent study by Glassdoor and Battery...
Couchbase Launches ‘JSON ANYWHERE’ Mobile Strategy
Today we made another big announcement that has the potential to shake up the NoSQL landscape. Our JSON Anywhere mobile strategy allows us to leapfrog the competition with significant new data management capabilities targeted specifically at mobile app developers. We...
The Digital Economy Is the Economy – and Apps Are the New Business Platform
In 1995, Don Tapscott coined the term “digital economy” in his book of the same name, to describe a new category of business enabled by the Internet. Fast-forward 20 years and a lot has changed. We used to think the...
Cloudera’s Open Source Compatibility Testing Frameworks
Today Cloudera announced new initiatives to support open source test frameworks that allow developers to certify integrations with Apache Kafka, Apache Sqoop, and Apache Flume. We support these moves and are firmly committed to open standards and open approaches to...
The Real Rationale for Enterprise Open Source
The new stack Cloud computing, big data and mobile are driving enterprises to redefine their software stack. Open source will be a huge part of that. But why open source? It is usually not any one single reason that drives...
NoSQL Industry Consolidation
Apple’s acquisition of FoundationDB a couple of weeks ago and Percona’s more recent acquisition of Tokutek raised many questions about whether the NoSQL industry is consolidating. It is and this is prompting lots of questions around the risks for developers...
Competitive Benchmarks Are Good for the Industry
In the last two weeks, benchmarks sponsored by Couchbase and MongoDB were released that compared their flagship products versus each other and Cassandra. This is a good thing for the NoSQL industry, so long as the benchmarks are open, reproducible,...
Membase and RightScale: Elastic Data Scaling in the Cloud
I am very excited that Membase ServerTemplates are now up and running on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. RightScale customers now have easy access to a leading NoSQL database for the first time, and Membase customers can rest easy that...
Membase and Open Source 4.0
I read Matt Aslett's (The 451) post on the golden age of open source with interest. In it he describes that we've arrived at the fourth stage of open source, which is “in short: a return to a focus on...
Membase Recognized by IDC
Winning awards is always fun. Over the years, companies I’ve been part of have won their fair share. But not all awards are created equal. Some definitely carry more weight than others, and I put the IDC Innovative Company to...
Key-value vs document database? Couchbase 2.0 bridges the gap.
Early this morning, Couchbase 2.0 was officially released. The release is a big step forward for the Couchbase open source project and, in my opinion, has the potential to shake up the NoSQL landscape. You can read all about the...