<![endif] Couchbase Menu Menu Products Couchbase Server Couchbase Mobile What's New in 3.0 Developers Learn Webinars Whitepapers Blog Why NoSQL? Events Presentations Documentation Training Customers Subscriptions Search query Search Search Search Download /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 ...