UPDATED 11:03 EDT / MAY 23 2017

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Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database

Couchbase Inc. is continuing its push to position its NoSQL database as a platform for customer engagement with the announcement of version 5.0 today.

Continuing an evolution it began earlier this year, the company said its rebranded “engagement database” taps into dynamic data at any scale and across any channel or device with a focus on creating unique customer experiences. The characteristics of such experiences include interaction with brands across a variety of channels with responsive, personalized and rapid interactions. Gartner Inc. has reported that 89 percent of marketers believe customer experience is their primary differentiation point.

“You need global deployment, scale-out architecture and change at the speed of business. These are core differentiation points for us,” said Dipti Borkar, vice president of product marketing at Couchbase.

The repositioning comes just seven weeks after Couchbase appointed former Veritas Inc. President Matt Cain as chief executive and moved former Chief Executive Officer Bob Weiderhold out of an operational role amid signs that the NoSQL market is primed for consolidation. Couchbase has raised $146 million, according to Crunchbase, including a $30 million round 14 months ago.

At that time,  Weiderhold said the funding “will take us to cash flow positive and should be our last round prior to an IPO.” There has been no further discussion of a public offering.

From a technical perspective, the new release is said to improve developer productivity, boost query performance and simplify cluster management. The highlight is an integrated full-text search capability that spans everything from cloud server deployments to mobile devices on the edge. “Search used to involve a call back to the server, but now you can do it from your device,” Borkar said.

In-memory data sets now including support for query, indexing and high availability replication without swapping to disk. The company’s N1QL query language has been enhanced to query in-memory “data buckets,” which Borkar said are equivalent to a database but with multiple schemas.

N1QL also now supports query monitoring and debugging, as well as adaptive indexing, which enables queries to explore multiple dimensions with a single index. Applications can also now be built to run across multiple data centers. New security and manageability features include role-based access control, faster failover in cluster environments and index replication in addition to data replication.

The company is also enhancing its mobile client with a version 2.0 preview that features built-in full text search and simplified application development with support for a N1QL-like application programming interface, as well as a new API that provides built-in domain data modeling support. The new release is said to better enable agile development of collaborative, multi-user apps with automatic conflict management on the edge and to improve responsiveness from cloud to the edge.

Couchbase is distributed as an open-source project with premium editions featuring enhanced functionality and support. Pricing starts at $5,600 per node.

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