This tutorial assumes you have installed libcouchbase on your systems per the installation instructions in the Getting Started section of this guide. Because the method of building a program based on libcouchbase may vary between Linux/Mac OS and Windows, this tutorial will focus on the components of the program rather than how to build it.

If you need to set up a server node or data bucket, you can do with the Couchbase Administrative Console, or Couchbase Command-Line Interface (CLI), or the Couchbase REST-API. For information and instructions, see:

After you have your Couchbase Server set up and you have installed the needed client libraries, you can compile and run the following basic program.