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CouchDB is awesome. We evaluated it some time ago¹ and we all thought that the way it worked, the performance, the management are light years ahead of everythin

CouchDB is awesome. We evaluated it some time ago¹ and we all thought that the way it worked, the performance, the management are light years ahead of everything else in this space. We ended up not using it because it looked like it was dead. I am so happy that it is not, and I hope this 2.0 release will bring in some more community love. It absolutely deserves it! ¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757015 (couchbase sales people came answering, even if couchbase is a completely different product that covers different usecases)

HodGreeley 10y ago
Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server. And that wasn't a sales person that responded. It was the head of Couchbase Mobile engineering.
- y0ghur7_xxx 10y ago
  > Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server. Probably. But is that really my fault? There is CouchDB, CouchIO, CouchOne, Couchbase, Couchbase Server, Couchbase Mobile, Couchbase Lite, CouchApps, BigCouch, Touchbase, Membase, Memcached, MemcacheDB... all different and yet related in a way not at all obvious from the names alone. First there was CouchDB, a database created by Damien Katz, a former IBM developer. Its official name was changed to Apache CouchDB after it became an Apache project. A company named CouchIO was founded to work on Apache CouchDB and later changed its name to CouchOne (by "its name" I mean the company name - not the database name). CouchOne (formerly CouchIO) merged with Membase (formerly NorthScale) to form a new company called Couchbase. Membase (the company) developed Membase (a product of the same name). Membase was created by several leaders of the Memcached project and it used the Memcached protocol. After the merger of CouchOne and Membase, Couchbase continued the development of the Membase software and later changed its name to Couchbase Server. Today I think most people believe that Couchbase Server is a new version of CouchDB but it is in fact a new version of Membase. It still uses the Memcached protocol and not the RESTful API of CouchDB. Meanwhile CouchDB is still CouchDB, actively maintained and enhanced as an Apache project. http://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/512324 http://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/512324

HodGreeley 10y ago

Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server. And that wasn't a sales person that responded. It was the head of Couchbase Mobile engineering.

y0ghur7_xxx 10y ago
> Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server. Probably. But is that really my fault? There is CouchDB, CouchIO, CouchOne, Couchbase, Couchbase Server, Couchbase Mobile, Couchbase Lite, CouchApps, BigCouch, Touchbase, Membase, Memcached, MemcacheDB... all different and yet related in a way not at all obvious from the names alone. First there was CouchDB, a database created by Damien Katz, a former IBM developer. Its official name was changed to Apache CouchDB after it became an Apache project. A company named CouchIO was founded to work on Apache CouchDB and later changed its name to CouchOne (by "its name" I mean the company name - not the database name). CouchOne (formerly CouchIO) merged with Membase (formerly NorthScale) to form a new company called Couchbase. Membase (the company) developed Membase (a product of the same name). Membase was created by several leaders of the Memcached project and it used the Memcached protocol. After the merger of CouchOne and Membase, Couchbase continued the development of the Membase software and later changed its name to Couchbase Server. Today I think most people believe that Couchbase Server is a new version of CouchDB but it is in fact a new version of Membase. It still uses the Memcached protocol and not the RESTful API of CouchDB. Meanwhile CouchDB is still CouchDB, actively maintained and enhanced as an Apache project. http://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/512324 http://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/512324