As far as I can tell the Community Edition lags far behind the Enterprise Edition in stability and improvements. The latest available Community Edition is v3.0.1, released in October 2014. Since then, there has been a v3.0.2 edition released in December 2014, and a v3.0.3 released in March 2015, both of which had "critical bug fixes" according to the release notes, plus a new version, 3.1.0, released in July 2015. None of these post-3.0.1 versions are available as a Community Edition, they're only available to Enterprise customers -- is that correct?
The Couchbase web site says: "Bug fixes and new features are eventually integrated with the Community Edition (CE), but this typically takes several weeks." But from what I can tell it's not "several weeks" -- it's at least 10 months.
Hi, it seems we missed correcting this page. It takes months not weeks to release updates to CE.
The releases after 3.0.1 (3.0.2 and others) are maintenance releases with bug fixes. 3.1 is a recent release and it does contain features. We would normally push a community edition version or 3.1 in several months after the release but we are close to pushing out 4.0 and that incorporates 3.1 enhancements and more. I am expecting that we will get a 4.0 community edition out that will supersede the 3.1 release and will deliver these features to you soon.
If you want to use the latest features without waiting for a CE build, it's getting easier to build Couchbase Server all the time. This readme is where our new hires start: https://github.com/couchbase/manifest
Thanks for pointing this out... I don't have any experience with CouchBase/CouchDB. But I do appreciate open-source database options, especially those where the open version closely matches the commercially supported options.
The Couchbase web site says: "Bug fixes and new features are eventually integrated with the Community Edition (CE), but this typically takes several weeks." But from what I can tell it's not "several weeks" -- it's at least 10 months.
Am I misunderstanding something?