I'm just getting started with Xamarin development, and I'm discovery the wonders of using Couchbase Light / Mobile to manage local data and data sync. I watched a very nice video from Xamarin Evolve 2014, in which the folks from Couchbase presented some great use cases for using Couchbase in Xamarin mobile apps. My question is: given, that there are 3 components involved - the Light/Mobile library, the Gateway, and the Server - for me to start my development, and, later on to deploy in production: are all these components commercial, are there an open source counterparts? If only commercial components exist - what is the pricing?
-Eugene
Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are Open Source under an Apache 2.0 license, with the development in the open on github.
There are two binary releases, a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition which each have different terms in their license agreements and as pointed out, the Enterprise Edition is through subscription, which gives the subscriber access to Couchbase, Inc. for help, enhancements and an escalation path when you need to resolve something right away.