Couchbase offers 3 products -- Couchbase Server (which is Membase, with an instance of CouchDB for persistant storage). Couchbase Single Server (which is CouchDB plus Geocouch plus a few other addons). Couchbase Mobile (self-explanatory).
My understanding is that version 3.0 will probably merge the Membase and Couchbase products into one, so you'll have Couchbase and Couchbase mobile.
BigCouch is a separate product from the Cloudant guys, which is essentially CouchDB with an elastic sharding layer. Cloudant also sells a hosted version of BigCouch with -- I think -- a Lucene engine on top. There will likely be some overlap here between BigCouch and version 3 of Couchbase Server.
IrisCouch is a hosted version of Couchbase, with GeoCouch thrown in as well.
"Then you have no officially maintained libraries for the different platforms which was a turn off to me the first time I cracked that egg open."
I think this comes out of the initial popularity of CouchDB-- a bunch of people wrote drivers for all kinds of languages. Some of those guys work for Couchbase now. The libraries at http://www.couchbase.org/code/couchbase-single aren't comprehensive, but they do give you a good idea as to what's out there.
There was a bit of digging involved to get a lot of driver and connection information, but it seems like the Couchbase guys are doing a great job at cleaning up what was previously a scattershot list on the Apache site.
My understanding is that version 3.0 will probably merge the Membase and Couchbase products into one, so you'll have Couchbase and Couchbase mobile.
BigCouch is a separate product from the Cloudant guys, which is essentially CouchDB with an elastic sharding layer. Cloudant also sells a hosted version of BigCouch with -- I think -- a Lucene engine on top. There will likely be some overlap here between BigCouch and version 3 of Couchbase Server.
IrisCouch is a hosted version of Couchbase, with GeoCouch thrown in as well.
"Then you have no officially maintained libraries for the different platforms which was a turn off to me the first time I cracked that egg open."
I think this comes out of the initial popularity of CouchDB-- a bunch of people wrote drivers for all kinds of languages. Some of those guys work for Couchbase now. The libraries at http://www.couchbase.org/code/couchbase-single aren't comprehensive, but they do give you a good idea as to what's out there.
There was a bit of digging involved to get a lot of driver and connection information, but it seems like the Couchbase guys are doing a great job at cleaning up what was previously a scattershot list on the Apache site.