Couchbase News & Articles

Today, Couchbase has released the Couchbase Server 2.0, an updated version of its NoSQL database product, designed to improve server functionality and database capabilities.

Enterprise acceptance of open source software has grown tremendously over the last few years. Few voices in the open source community complained about the newfound popularity, but maybe they didn’t know that hanging with the cool kids came with expectations.

NoSQL provider Couchbase (news, site) has announced the release of two new products today -- Couchbase 2.0, which consolidates Membase’s key-value repository with CouchDB’s document repository and Unstructured Query Language (UnQL), a query language.

Organizations think open source software (OSS) is bad. You know, bad meaning good. Do people still say bad? Never mind. A Gartner (news, site) study has found that enterprises are increasingly including open source software in their technology portfolio. Propelled by rapid innovation, lower adoption and implementation cost and features rivaling commercial options, OSS is becoming pervasive.

They ran in same technical circles -- NoSQL cool kids. Membase had an open CTO search; CouchOne (news, site) had an open CEO search. It was a match made in data management heaven. Membase and CouchOne have announced their merger to form Couchbase. What does this merger mean for users and the noSQL movement?