Document database company Couchbase is set to be bought by a private equity biz in all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last week. In 2021, the company, which has introduced SQL-like features on its multi-modal NoSQL database, [1]raised $200 million in its IPO, valuing it at around $1.2 billion.

Sumit Pande, senior managing director at Haveli Investments, said: "The data layer in enterprise IT stacks is continuing to increase in importance as a critical enabler of next-gen AI applications. Couchbase's innovative data platform is well positioned to meet the performance and scalability demands of the largest global enterprises."

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The buyout is [3]expected to complete in the second half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

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Emerging from Membase, Couchbase Server is designed to appeal to developers with a distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package optimized for modern, interactive applications.

Notable Couchbase employees include Donald Chamberlin, who [5]co-authored the ubiquitous database language SQL in the 1970s . In the role, he is [6]backing a new query language designed to overcome some of the shortcomings of SQL.

[7]Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike

[8]Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end

[9]What do CTOs hate most about GenAI? Tool changes that break stuff

[10]Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

In 2023, [11]Couchbase added a columnar side-car to boost analytics performance for users who want more insight into their real-time data. Only available as a package with the main DBaaS, the in-memory analytics system offers support for Tableau and PowerBI for analytic development and visualization.

In 2021, the [12]NoSQL database began to support multi-statement SQL transactions and an approach to building schema-like structures into the database, allowing it to support multiple applications from the same data. It said the "multi-statement SQL transactions," allows statements that commit or roll back together. Couchbase moved to the license BSL 1.1 in [13]March that year . ®

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[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/database-software-company-couchbase-shares-jump-23-nasdaq-debut-2021-07-22/

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[3] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/couchbase-to-be-acquired-by-haveli-investments-for-1-5-billion-302487093.html

[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/databases&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44aFl6Et2VQXiXubhiu0eePAAAAkk&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0

[5] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/fifty_years_of_sql/

[6] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/sql_cocreator_nosql/

[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/aerospike_acid_transactions/

[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/microsoft_builds_open_source_document/

[9] https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/database_ai_training/

[10] https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/26/michael_stonebraker_feature/

[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/couchbase_columnar_side_store/

[12] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/29/couchbase_7/

[13] https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-adopts-bsl-license/

[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/