That will teach me to go to sleep before midnight on a weekday.

I woke up this morning to find a shakeup in the world of NOSQL. CouchOne has merged with Membase to form Couchbase, “the most comprehensive data management solution for scalable web and mobile applications.” I’ll add mine to the many voices wishing luck to the new company and the communities it supports. We’re excited to see more and more resources being poured into the NOSQL space. Congratulations to Damien, James, and everyone at both companies.

We’ve been asked if this changes anything at Cloudant. The answer is no. We’ll continue to offer Cloudant’s hosted, managed, scalable data platform. Apache CouchDB remains an important part of our technology offering; it forms the core data store around which we’ve built our wider platform. We have always been advocates, contributors, and leaders in the CouchDB community and we see no reason to change that. We’ll continue our support for both CouchDB and BigCouch. We’ll continue to provide our customers and partners with a robust database, search, and analytics platform to power their mission-critical business applications – as we’ve done for the last two years.

I do want to take issue with one thing said in the press release for Couchbase. They say,

“Couchbase becomes the only document database capable of safely storing your data
whether stored on a single server, or spread across hundreds.”

Some of our customers have billions of documents stored safely on dozens of nodes in datacenters around the world. It’s too soon to say what Couchbase will become, but if you need a safe, scalable, and easy-to-use document storage platform, our technology already provides that today: cloudant.com/solutions.

Alan Hoffman