[evanelias]

Ehh, on the Memcached side it was a few contributors (including two major ones, iirc). They're great engineers, but I don't think it's accurate to call them "the Memcached folks".

As far as I know, Memcached's longtime maintainer / primary contributor (dormando) is not involved with Couchbase, and neither is Memcached's original creator (bradfitz).

[tleyden5iwx]

It's more like "one of the memcached contributors", rather than "all the memcached folks".

Couchbase was a merger between NorthScale and CouchOne. The CouchOne founding team were all CouchdDB project founders: Damien Katz, J Chris Anderson, and Jan Lehnardt. NorthScale was founded by Steve Yen, who was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel, and Dustin Sallings, who was a committer on the Memcached project.

The first product that NorthScale released was called Membase, and the point of it was to help companies run large memcached clusters without having to think very hard. Couchbase later evolved into a hybrid of Membase and CouchDB that can speak the memcached protocol but also has some of the JSON document database properties that CouchDB has.

[ingenthr]

Trond Norbye and I were also pretty involved with the memcached project, both joined NorthScale and we're both still part of Couchbase. Trond in particular did a lot of work on the server and I did a lot of work with the java client and helping people.

Steve Yen was doing a lot and fixing bugs and wrote moxi, a memcached proxy that was very useful in the early days.

With the CouchOne merger, we moved a lot of the proxy topology independence into clients and added a lot more.