couchbase/gocb

The Couchbase Go SDK

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Couchbase Go Client

The Go SDK library allows you to connect to a Couchbase cluster from Go. It is written in pure Go, and uses the included gocbcore library to handle communicating to the cluster over the Couchbase binary protocol.

Source

The project source is hosted at https://github.com/couchbase/gocb.

Documentation

You can explore our API reference through godoc at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2.

You can also find documentation for the Go SDK on the official Couchbase docs.

Bug Tracker

Issues are tracked on Couchbase's Jira.

You can also report an issue by opening an issue on GitHub.

Discussion

You can chat with us on Discord or the official Couchbase forums.

Installing

To install the latest stable version, run:

go get github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2@latest

To install the latest developer version, run:

go get github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2@master

Testing

You can run tests in the usual Go way:

go test -race ./...

Which will execute both the unit test suite and the integration test suite. By default, the integration test suite is run against a mock Couchbase Server. See the testmain_test.go file for information on command line arguments for running tests against a real server instance.

Release train

Releases are targeted for every third Tuesday of the month. This is subject to change based on priorities.

Linting

Linting is performed used golangci-lint. To run:

make lint

License

Copyright 2016 Couchbase Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

See LICENSE for further details.

couchbase
golang
sdk

couchbase/gocb

The Couchbase Go SDK

Go

375

1,258 commits

updated Oct 12, 2026

See the code

README

GoDoc

Couchbase Go Client

The Go SDK library allows you to connect to a Couchbase cluster from Go. It is written in pure Go, and uses the included gocbcore library to handle communicating to the cluster over the Couchbase binary protocol.

Source

The project source is hosted at https://github.com/couchbase/gocb.

Documentation

You can explore our API reference through godoc at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2.

You can also find documentation for the Go SDK on the official Couchbase docs.

Bug Tracker

Issues are tracked on Couchbase's Jira.

You can also report an issue by opening an issue on GitHub.

Discussion

You can chat with us on Discord or the official Couchbase forums.

Installing

To install the latest stable version, run:

go get github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2@latest

To install the latest developer version, run:

go get github.com/couchbase/gocb/v2@master

Testing

You can run tests in the usual Go way:

go test -race ./...

Which will execute both the unit test suite and the integration test suite. By default, the integration test suite is run against a mock Couchbase Server. See the testmain_test.go file for information on command line arguments for running tests against a real server instance.

Release train

Releases are targeted for every third Tuesday of the month. This is subject to change based on priorities.

Linting

Linting is performed used golangci-lint. To run:

make lint

License

Copyright 2016 Couchbase Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

See LICENSE for further details.

couchbase
golang
sdk

Project health

Overall

6.0/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

10/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

v2.13.0 · Oct 7, 2026

Releases this year

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