Membase

Whenever I talk about Membase with candidates, employees, or friends, I feel more and more excited about what we are building and how it is going to impact the industry. Each discussion validates my belief that what we do *is* unique and a game changer. Just today, we had two important “wins,” one from a [...]

Winning awards is always fun. Over the years, companies I’ve been part of have won their fair share. But not all awards are created equal. Some definitely carry more weight than others, and I put the IDC Innovative Company to Watch award in this category. The fact that IDC does extensive research on the markets [...]

We NorthScalers have been hard at work and are proud to release Membase Server Beta 4, our final Beta release ahead of our general availability release. Go and grab it here! In addition to support for 64-bit Windows, we think you’ll be particularly ... [More] excited by a major new feature in the release: memcached buckets! Introducing Memcached Buckets You now [...] [Less]

I am very excited that Membase ServerTemplates are now up and running on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform (see today’s announcement). RightScale customers now have easy access to a leading NoSQL database for the first time, and Membase customers can rest easy that when they’re ready to deploy their applications in the cloud they can [...]

I read Matt Aslett’s (The 451) post on the golden age of open source with interest. In it he describes that we’ve arrived at the fourth stage of open source, which is ”in short: a return to a focus on collaboration and community, as well as commercial interests.” What we’re doing with membase.org definitely falls in [...]

Recently, Attila Kiskó, the author of the best .NET memcached client, the Enyim .NET memcached client, has been enhancing his client library to speak directly to membase data nodes.  Membase already supports all existing memcached client libraries ... [More] and memcached protocols via a high-performance proxy, but there’s a “direct path” that client libraries can use for [...] [Less]

I am excited to announce that NorthScale Membase Server 1.6 Beta3 is now available and ready for download. This beta release adds a lot of new functionality and reflects most of what you’ll find in the final product. Highlights include: Windows ... [More] support Multi-tenancy – allows multiple buckets on a single cluster including bucket quotas “Cluster Overview” as a new [...] [Less]

We are looking forward to a great week next week at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco. It looks like it’s shaping up to be a great conference. See a Membase demo.If you’re at the show, be sure to come by NorthScale’s booth (#640) for a Membase demo. Membase is an elastic key-value database that stores [...]