The company has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and offices in San Francisco, Austin, Bengaluru and the United Kingdom.

[1] Original officers listed were James Phillips, Steve Yen and Dustin Sallings, who were involved in the development of memcached.

[2] In May 2010, a $10 million investment led by the Mayfield Fund was announced for NorthScale, and Bob Wiederhold replaced Phillips as chief executive.

[5] It developed and provided commercial support for the Apache CouchDB open source project, a document database.

The merged company aimed to build an easily scalable, high-performance document-oriented database system, marketed with the term NoSQL.