The CEO of CouchOne, Damien Katz, has announced a merger with Membase, resulting in the creation of Couchbase. The two companies were targeting different pain points in the market: CouchOne focused on mobile, sync, and offline use cases, while Membase targeted large-scale mission-critical apps requiring high performance and scalability. The combined entity will offer a unified solution that simplifies technology stacks and maintenance for building fast-responsive apps that scale to millions of users. The merger brings together complementary technologies and teams, allowing for faster development speed and improved support experience. Couchbase will be the standard storage for mobile devices and server technology for syncing them together, offering a high-volume, low-latency, elastic clustered server system with reliability and power.