The NoSQL Journey:

Past, Present, and Future

Bob Wiederhold | CEO, Couchbase

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2011, First Couchbase conference —

We’ve come a long way

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NoSQL enterprise adoption

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NoSQL enterprise adoption

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Couchbase at Viber

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Couchbase at PayPal

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NoSQL enterprise adoption

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NoSQL enterprise adoption

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AREAS OF INNOVATION4

STORAGE MOBILE

QUER

Y

QUERY SERVER

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N1QL = SQL++

STORAGE MOBILE

N1QL

QUERY SERVER

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STORAGE

STORAGE MOBILE

N1QL

QUERY SERVER

ForestDB: ultra fast key-value data store

STORAGE MOBILE

N1QL

QUERY PERFORMANCE

ForestDB: ultra fast key-value data store

STORAGE

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STORAGE

Mixed (Unrestricted) Performance

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ForestDB LevelDB (Google) RocksDB (Facebook)

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MOBILE

STORAGE MOBILE

N1QL

QUERY SERVER

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Current mobile situation

Mobile device

Data server in the cloud

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Apps work only when connected

Mobile device

Data server in the cloud

No internet connection.

Try again later.

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What’s needed

Mobile device

with embedded database

Data server in the cloud

Take advantage of increasing

processing power and storage

on mobile devices

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Always available solution, on/offline

Mobile device

with embedded database

Data server in the cloud

Embedded database auto-syncs

to cloud server when connection

is available

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Bryan HunterCTO | Firefly Logic

The team that built the

CouchbaseConnect mobile app.

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PERFORMANCE & SCALABILITY

STORAGE MOBILE

N1QL

QUERY SERVER

Ravi Mayuram

Senior Vice President, Engineering