Bob Wiederhold's blog
How Couchbase helped OMGPOP break all the records with Draw Something
Every now and then you get the opportunity to prove yourself on a big stage. Four weeks ago we got the chance. Couchbase user, OMGPOP, had launched Draw Something – a Pictionary-like game that was going viral. Capitalizing on what would end up being an unprecedented growth opportunity, they absolutely had to scale their database. There were two non-negotiables: performance had to be sustained and the game could never be taken off line, even as the number of users and games rapidly accelerated.
Reinforcing Couchbase’s Commitment to Open Source and CouchDB
There has been a lot of reaction to Damien Katz’s “The Future of CouchDB” blog post including some questions raised about Couchbase’s direction. I will leave it to Damien to address the questions about his personal views and motivations but I want to address some of the questions directed at Couchbase.
Couchbase 2011 Year in Review
The end of a year is always a good time to reflect on the year gone by, assess what has gone well and what hasn’t, and chart your course for the New Year. This morning we issued a press release recapping some of our accomplishments for the year, but I’d like to provide more commentary on what we’ve learned in the past year and take the opportunity to paint a clear picture of what our customers and users can expect from us in 2012.
Couchbase, Docomo and Zynga: Strategic Relationships Make a Difference to the Community
Today we announced another strategic customer relationship. This one is with NTT Docomo, the largest mobile service provider in Japan. It’s always nice to announce big customer relationships, but sometimes it’s not obvious to the wider Couchbase community what its importance is to them. I think these relationships are a crucial ingredient to building great products, and in turn the entire community benefits.
Welcome to NoSQL, Oracle – we’ve been expecting you.
Oracle’s entry into the NoSQL market, announced yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, isn’t at all surprising to anyone who believes, like we do, that NoSQL is destined to be a disruptive force in the database market and eventually make up a significant percentage of its sales. In fact Oracle’s entry is another clear indication that powerful trends like Big Data, Big Users, Cloud, and Mobile Computing are driving the adoption of NoSQL and that early adopters in key market segments are already rapidly moving to NoSQL technology.
NoSQL and Couchbase: Picking Up Speed
The past six months have been a whirlwind of activity at Couchbase and the pace just continues to accelerate, not just for Couchbase but for the NoSQL market as a whole. Since the merger of CouchOne and Membase in February, we’ve been hard at work to advance the state of NoSQL technology. To name a few things:
Couchbase Momentum: NoSQL on the Rise
When we announced the Membase and CouchOne merger, it was thrilling to see the community share our excitement about the merger, and provide such positive feedback about the potential of bringing the CouchDB and Membase NoSQL technologies together.
Focused on Building Great NoSQL Software
Today we let our hosting users know that we are transferring our Apache CouchDB hosting service to a new company called Iris Couch. The hosting offering is still in beta but close to being generally available, so it was important that we make some decisions about our ability to build both the world’s best NoSQL software and build a great hosting service. In a small company it’s extremely important to focus on as few things as possible and do them really, really well.
Hello Couchbase!
I am thrilled to be writing this blog post announcing to the world that Membase and CouchOne have merged to become Couchbase!
NoSQL is Growing, Not Slowing
GigaOm is definitely stoking the NoSQL discussion by asking whether scalable SQL databases have taken the momentum out of the NoSQL movement. I interpret recent market events somewhat differently however, and want to offer an alternate perspective.
