<![endif] Try Couchbase English Français Deutsch 日本語 한국어 简体中文 Why NoSQL? Products Couchbase Server Couchbase Mobile Training Download Resources Communities Customers Subscriptions /header How does Couchbase compare to Apache CouchDB? Here’s some high-level background and a chart to help you understand technical similarities and differences. First, a brief history. Apache CouchDB is the open source document database originally created by Damien Katz. Damien started a company (along with J Chris Anderson and Jan Lehnardt) called CouchOne Inc. to provide commercial support for the project. Around the same time another open source distributed key-value database called Membase was getting a lot of traction. In February 2011, CouchOne Inc. and Membase Inc. merged to form Couchbase. The idea behind the...