Couchbase Server
Membase Server is Now Couchbase Server
This is my first blog posting at Couchbase – and one I’m very happy to be writing! Today we shipped Couchbase Server 1.8, culminating a tremendous amount of work since I joined Couchbase three months ago. Before getting in to the details about the release, I want to say hello to the Couchbase community. I’m excited to be at Couchbase.
Introducing the Couchbase PHP Library 1.0
A New World
We are releasing Couchbase Server 1.8 today and with it a complete rewrite of our PHP SDK. This is all good news: We beefed up the internals significantly while keeping the API compatible with previous releases. Yay!
Rolling Upgrades with Couchbase
One of the unique capabilities of Couchbase is the ability to do online upgrades without downtime. This is in part due to our auto-sharding and rebalancing features. In this blog I will walk through the process of doing a rolling upgrade to two nodes without taking the application off line.
Couchbase Server 2.0: Most Common Questions (and Answers)
I just finished up a nine-week technical webinar series highlighting the features of our upcoming release of Couchbase Server 2.0. It was such a blast interacting with the hundreds of participants, and I was blown away by the level of excitement, engagement and anticipation for this new product.
Couchbase Server 2.0 Tour and Demo
It’s been a busy few weeks since CouchConf San Francisco, where we announced and demo’d the developer preview of Couchbase Server 2.0, which integrates Apache CouchDB, Membase and Memcached into a single, powerful NoSQL database solution.
We just finished an update to the developer preview and it is now available. Be sure to download the latest version and let us know what you think.
GeoCouch: Bulk Insertion
The new release of GeoCouch improves the spatial index building time a lot (up to 10x). This comes from using a new bulk insertion algorithm. The spatial index (an R-tree) is implemented as an append-only data structure — just as CouchDB's B-trees are — which benefits from the nature of bulk insertions by allowing large blocks of the index to be appended at one time.
New release: GeoCouch as Extension
A new milestone has been reached: GeoCouch is now an extension for CouchDB that can be easily installed with your already running instance of CouchDB. Installing the GeoCouch extension is as easy as using the GeoCouch Git-based source with your existing CouchDB source base (>=1.0.2).
Merge Right: Announcing Couchbase Server
It’s been just about a month since we announced the merger of Membase and CouchOne to form Couchbase, and it’s great to see that the post-merger integration is moving ahead at full steam.
Today is a big day for us for a couple of reasons:
