Couchbase releases are not in sync with CouchDB releases, the Couchbase server is based on CouchDB 1.0.1, the reason their versions arent aligned as Couchbase releases are not Apache CouchDB releases
I've been using the CouchBase release since before they became CouchBase. I haven't closely followed the whole CouchOne/Membase merger. Is there any reason to switch to the official Apache release?
I use CouchDB as its easier to track development, the Couchbase builds are more convenient if you dont have strict version requirements and dont build from source (they have geocouch included and nice packaging for osx).
Thanks Dale, this is good to know. Any plans to update Couchbase server to be based on CouchDB 1.1? I know the _replicator DB would be a particularly nice feature to have.
I've been using the Couchbase server alpha for a good while for a few reasons. _replicator DB has made a lot of things a lot easier for me. I get a pretty good reduction in file space as well (my wikipedia database is about 25% smaller, for example).
So far, there are only mac builds (because I'm building them and that's what I'm deploying on), but Linux should come shortly and we should stop calling it alpha.
If you've got a mac and want to try out some new stuff, do this and complain to me about anything you don't like: https://gist.github.com/951106