Couchbase, Inc.

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Couchbase, Inc.
Private
Industry Software
Founded 2011
Headquarters Mountain View, California, USA
Key people
 Bob Wiederhold (CEO)
Number of employees
 300+
Website www.couchbase.com

Couchbase, Inc. is a software company that develops and provides commercial packages and support for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Lite both of which are open-source, NoSQL, multi-model, document-oriented database that store JSON documents or a pure key-value database.

The company has its headquarters in Mountain View, California and offices in San Francisco, Bangalore and United Kingdom.[1]

Couchbase is a privately held company with approximately $30 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and Ignition Partners.[2] Recognition and awards include the 2012 Infoworld Bossie award,[3] Dataweek 2012 award,[4] Always-On Global award,[5] VentureWire's 50 FASTTech companies ,[6] GigaOM's Structure 50 list [7] and the Gartner cool vendor award.[8]

History

Couchbase, Inc. was created through the merger of Membase Inc. and CouchOne Inc. in 2011. Membase Inc. was founded in 2009 and developed and provided commercial packages and support for the Couchbase Server open source project, a NoSQL key-value database that leverages memcached technology. CouchOne Inc. was also founded in 2009 and developed and provided commercial support for the Apache CouchDB open source project, a NoSQL document database. The merged company aimed to combine the strengths of Membase (and Memcached) as well as Apache CouchDB to build an easily scalable, high-performance document-oriented NoSQL database.

Couchbase Open Source Project

Couchbase is an open source NoSQL database that can be used as either a document-oriented or pure key-value database and is supported by Couchbase Inc. and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. It aims for easy scalability, consistent high performance, high reliability and ease of development. When used as a document-oriented database, data is stored in JSON format which can be indexed and queried.

While Couchbase took inspiration from Apache CouchDB and memcached, it is a completely different and separate open source project. It has a separate and independent community, provides a very different set of capabilities, and supports very different use cases. More specifically, Couchbase leveraged and modified memcached technology to provide built-in caching and leveraged and modified Apache CouchDB technology to enable the document capabilities in recent releases of Couchbase.

Couchbase is used at several companies, including but not limited to Zynga and Shufflemaster for gaming, AOL and MediaMind for ad platforms, Salesforce.com and Concur for SaaS business applications, Orbitz and Sabre for e-commerce, and Thomson Reuters and McGraw-Hill for online media.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/contact
  2. ↑ http://www.ignitionpartners.com/
  3. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-open-source-database-named-winner-2012-infoworld-bossie-awards
  4. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-selected-dataweek-award-2012-winner
  5. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-selected-alwayson-global-250-winner
  6. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-makes-venturewire-fastech-50
  7. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-named-to-gigaom-structure-50
  8. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-named-gartner-cool-vendor

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