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Company: Couchbase

Type: Full time

Description:

Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, the Couchbase Data Platform was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise. Our geo-distributed Engagement Database provides unmatched developer agility and manageability, as well as unparalleled performance at any scale, from any cloud to the edge.

Couchbase, one of the NoSQL industry leaders, is looking for Senior Software Engineers in our Manchester design centre.  If you want to be part of the big-data revolution we may just have what you are looking for...

Location: Manchester, UK

Remote: No

Visa Sponsorship: No

Technologies: We use C++ on Linux mainly. Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases a big plus as is Open Source software development practices.

Contact: If interested, you may email CV/questions to [email protected] or for further information on our jobs, please look at our careers website-https://www.couchbase.com/careers

Despite similar names, Couchbase Server and Apache CouchDB are quite different systems.

Here’s a quick overview of how they differ and what they have in common.

Couchbase is priced per node regardless of concurrent feature use per node. Appropriate sizing, eventually, may revolve around specific feature needs as you scale.

Does this help? Also there is a sizing guide on https://www.couchbase.com

Let me start by saying I swear I'm not a Couchbase shill-- I used to do consulting with a firm that was a Couchbase partner, so I had a lot of opportunity to familiarize myself with it.

...But there's Couch*base* and Couch*DB*. They were created by the same guy, but Couchbase as a project was initially a merge between CouchDB and Membase. You can read more about it here. They're different products now, only sharing the same roots.

Here's a pretty good run down of the differences between Couchbase and CouchDB

One of Couchbase's selling points is N1QL. Sure, you do have to learn some Couchbase-specific terminology like what a bucket is, or a collection, etc, and effectively using N1QL in production does require some real thought into syntax and building indexes once you want to start manipulating nested data. But, at a fundamental level, anybody that has been exposed to SQL can jump right in and start doing SELECT * FROM my_documents WHERE field = 'foo', do joins, etc. And of course, being NoSQL, you also have a pretty easy to use API for most languages where you can also do key-based retrieval for any document, as well.

disclaimer: Sorry, I'm just REALLY paranoid people will think I'm trying to sell them on Couchbase. I'm not-- it's just a platform I know more about than the average developer might. I strongly believe you should pick the right tool for the job, but I also believe that Couchbase is a great option for people to incorporate into a project where most of the devs already have established SQL knowledge.

Couchbase is currently a software package with many licensing and support options. If you have an enterprise size need then you would likely fall in the cost based category and there is a cost associated with production licensing.

If you are developing apps and need to use something document based, cross platform and cross-cloud, the. It is free to use, until you go into a stage/prod environment.

If you’d like to know more about cost I’d like to suggest a basic sizing and application requirements discussion.

You can reach us at https://www.couchbase.com or email and a technical representative will be happy to discuss options!

Does this make sense?

It handles offline capabilities and for a NoSQL database it uses queries like a normal SQL Server.

The Community Server Edition is their free tier at https://www.couchbase.com/downloads then choose Community. This can be installed on your local server or a production. You could install it and try it out.

This is one of the questions I get all the time. They are both document databases with 'couch' in the name, and there is some shared history. For the full scoop: https://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-vs-couchdb