Summary
Two startups that focus on quickly handling big data, CouchOne and Membase, have merged to form Couchbase. Membase, a data management system based on open source Memcached, is best known for its use by Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and other social games that took off on Facebook. CouchOne is the company behind the open source document database CouchDB, a NoSQL system that uses Java’s JSON-based objects as standard data units. It’s often used with blogging systems for its ability to store unstructured data as documents.