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There are plenty of content sharing apps around. Most of them take the form of a shared bookmark list or something similar. Spraed is also a content sharing app but primarily for people you interact with in person. Jakob Hoydis, Spraed's CTO, spoke ... [More] recently at the Couchbase London meet-up about how they'd built Spraed on top of Couchbase Mobile.read more [Less]

Today, Couchbase is pleased to announce the availability of Couchbase Server 3.0.2. With 1000s of hours in production use across many global enterprises, and with 100s of quality improvements in 3.0.2 that advances areas such as the upgrade ... [More] experience, security, performance and scale, we encourage all our customers to upgrade today! So, What’s improving with 3.0.2? read more [Less]

Reliable performance at scale is paramount for every data-centric mission critical system. As technology professionals we put a lot of work into providing data platforms that will help ensure successful system deployments. Architecture discussions ... [More] , concept presentations and product training is a great place to start in order to facilitate the vision and help define needs. However, we need (and want) to get our hands dirty to better understand and architect a reliable data platform.read more [Less]

There is a lot of buzz around enterprise class storage, lately.   Pure Storage, a recognized leader in the space, recently gave us the opportunity to deploy Couchbase in one of their lab environments.  The 8 node cluster was easily able to sustain a ... [More] 100% write 1 million ops/second workload.  A 1,000,000 writes/second workload was generated using our pillowfight tool run from one of the cluster nodes with the following parameters:read more [Less]

It starts with Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It ends with Cyber Monday. It’s a five day shopping extravaganza, and it’s the most important shopping period of the year for retail businesses, small and large.read more

Excitement and interest in mobile apps and the Internet of Things continues to grow at an accelerated pace. Vendors are rushing to lay claim to these terms in any way they can. Today DataStax is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing “DSE ... [More] 4.6 – The Leading Database Platform for IOT, Web and Mobile Applications”.   That is a lofty claim, followed by a press release that nowhere addresses the need for managing mobile and IoT data on the device or in the cloud.read more [Less]

Today we are releasing the new Couchbase .NET SDK for General Availability! This is a complete rewrite of the SDK and is based off of the Couchbase SDK 2.0 Specification, meaning it maintains a consistent interface with all of the other Couchbase 2.0 ... [More] SDK’s and it shares common transcoding and flags for interacting with the other SDKs. For example,  the .NET and Java SDK’s can work with the same data within the same bucket without causing transcoding issues.read more [Less]

Thanksgiving and turkey go hand-in-hand! And while, stuffing a turkey can be quite fun (with cupcakes - see below), stuffing a JSON rich document in a relational database with rows and columns is not. read more

I’m passionate about two things in my professional life: open source philosophy and distributed databases. I embraced open source philosophy at Red Hat. It’s a monastery for open source monks. Today, I continue to respect and admire Red Hat. I joined ... [More] Couchbase for the open source, distributed database: Couchbase Server. I wanted to know if our customers and community embrace open source philosophy too. I searched GitHub. This is what I found.read more [Less]

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