Creating a new connection to Couchbase Server from an SDK, is done by creating an instance of the Couchbase client. When you create this object, it is one of the more resource-consuming processes that you can perform with the SDKs.

When you create a new connection, Couchbase Server needs to provide current server topology to the client instance and it may also need to perform authentication. All of this is more time consuming and resource intensive compared to when you perform a read/write on data once a connection already exists. Because this is the case, you want to try to reduce the number of times you need to create a connection and attempt to reuse existing connections to the extent possible.

There are different approaches for each SDK on connection reuse; some SDKs use a connection-pool approach, some SDKs rely more on connection reuse. Please refer to the Language reference for your respective SDK for information on how to implement this. The other approach is to handle multiple requests from a single, persistent client instance. The next section discusses this approach.