About CouchEpsilon
Born from having the key, but not the window.
CouchEpsilon was born from a situation every team working with Couchbase runs into: you have the cluster credentials, but not the console. Access to the organization sits with a handful of administrators. And when something breaks, a payment that never confirmed or a document with a misspelled field, your only options were to write a script for every question or ask someone else to look for you.
A problem lived under real pressure.
Randall Ramos lived that problem up close. An entire operation was waiting on his confirmation about real payments: every transaction had to be found, its state understood, its full trail reconstructed and an answer given, and it had to happen fast.
Every minute without an answer was money on hold and people waiting. A script per question was not enough.
And he saw the gap.
MongoDB has Compass, SQL engines have DataGrip and DBeaver, and Couchbase had no dedicated tool for the people who operate and debug data.
- MongoDBCompass
- SQLDataGrip · DBeaver
- Couchbase—No dedicated tool
From a Docker image to a desktop IDE.
The first version
A Docker image, used every day
Randall built it on his own: it ran on your machine and opened a full window onto the cluster. It was not an experiment. It was the tool he opened every day to answer that operation, and that daily demand is what made it genuinely good.
The ceiling
It worked, but it had limits
The Docker version required Docker and kept credentials in the browser.
- Requires Docker
- Credentials in the browser
Today
A desktop IDE for macOS, Windows and Linux
To take the next step, Randall teamed up with a group of friends and colleagues, and together they turned CouchEpsilon into what it is today. Credentials live in your system keychain, nothing leaves your machine except to your cluster and it starts in seconds. On that foundation come the Pro and Enterprise editions, for the professional who lives in Couchbase all day and for the organization that needs control over who touches production.
- System keychain
- Your data never passes through our servers
- Starts in seconds
Ideas tested in real production incidents.
The ideas that define the product today did not come from a whiteboard. They were tested in the Docker version, with an operation waiting on the other side.
Search every bucket at once
Paste a value and see which bucket and collection it is in.
Warn when an index is missing
Instead of silently returning zero results.
Understand why a query is slow
Without admin permissions.
Always know which environment you are in
Before you touch anything.
Who we are.
- Randall Chriss Ramos SaucedoCreator of CouchEpsilon
- Jose Bobadilla
- Henry Hernandez
- Jose Lemus
- Erick Damian
- Maynor Alvarez
The desktop IDE is built by all of us.
What will not change.
- Community is free and complete
For anyone working on their own, commercial use included.
- Basic security is never charged for
Keychain, read-only mode, environments and confirmations in every edition.
- Your data stays with you
Your credentials and your data never leave your machine: the app talks directly to your cluster and only uses the internet for your account and your license. Telemetry is optional and never includes cluster data.
We believe Couchbase deserves a tool built for documents, not a SQL console in disguise. And that the people who run systems in production deserve real guardrails.
Where we are going.
Today CouchEpsilon covers data, queries, indexes and search. The destination is all of Couchbase: Eventing, Analytics and Mobile.