Why Cloud Lock In is Getting Worse
Almost everything we do, both online and offline, is powered by the cloud. Whether it’s buying groceries at your local supermarket, streaming your favorite TV show or opening an email – you are using the cloud. The computation power, storage...
Aaron Schneider - Associate Solutions Engineer, Couchbase November 23, 2022
Why You Need a Mobile Database
Mobile app usage is increasing worldwide, not only in user volume, but in daily time spent on apps. TechCrunch recently reported that mobile users now spend between four and five hours – roughly ⅓ of waking hours – on smartphone...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase November 22, 2022
How to Model Data: A Guide To JSON Data Modeling
When beginning to learn about document databases, it’s nice to have a grasp of JSON data modeling basics. This will help you navigate the space and topics easier having an expanded vocabulary on the subject. Experience with a traditional relational...
Matthew Groves November 18, 2022
Physical Storage Layer Options for Couchbase as a Persistent System of records
In a previous blog, I talked about various storage strategies that need to be considered when choosing the correct storage to meet your business requirements. This becomes more salient as datasets continue to grow and consistent performance is mandated by...
Steve Grimwood, Solutions Engineer November 17, 2022
VPC Peering with Capella and GCP – A Walkthrough
The Google Cloud Platform is the latest cloud service provider to onboard itself into Couchbase Server’s Fully Managed offering, Capella. As with any Cloud provider, it produces new opportunities for many of our customers to embark on the ‘hands free’...
Daniel Bull, Associate Solutions Engineer November 15, 2022
Couchbase at AWS re:Invent 2022
Wondering where you can see Couchbase in action this year at AWS re:Invent? Well, hopefully everywhere you turn, you should see the big red couch! This year as a Gold Sponsor, Couchbase has a large booth – #2445 – in...
Vinita Srivalsan November 14, 2022
Developer Velocity on the Stack Overflow Podcast
I was fortunate to be a guest on the Stack Overflow podcast recently. The topic was “Developer Velocity”, which was something that my fellow guest (and long-time developer community compatriot) Cory House wanted to discuss. What is Developer Velocity? In...
Matthew Groves November 11, 2022
Advanced Geospatial Support added to Search Service
The Couchbase Search service is introducing higher dimensional geospatial indexing and querying capabilities with the Couchbase Server release 7.1.2. Until this new feature, the Search service was limited to indexing single dimensional geopoint/location fields. Queries were limited to bounding queries...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran November 9, 2022
Why Choose a NoSQL Database? There Are Many Great Reasons
NoSQL, short for “Not only SQL,” is a term used for database systems that store information in a variety of formats to support requirements that traditional relational (or SQL) databases have difficulties addressing. Legacy relational systems were designed to minimize...
Tim Rottach, Director of Product Line Marketing November 8, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 7: Hierarchical JavaScript Storage
In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data, handling errors, prepared statements and other advanced topics. The final topic to cover is a newly added feature to 7.1 that enables JavaScript library storage options....
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase November 3, 2022
Six Developers Meetups in November
We’re back in-person and are very happy that we will be meeting you around the world! Our developer meetup series is starting in November with the following cities. New York (Nov 10) Paris (Nov 15) Munich (Nov 16) Santa Clara...
Brian King, Senior Community Manager November 1, 2022
Introducing Couchbase Capella Developer Experience Enhancements
A Fresher Couchbase Capella Developer Experience As the world around us becomes smarter and more connected, the end-user expectations for application experience, integrated functionality, performance and availability have skyrocketed. This creates a problem when organizations attempt to weave together multiple...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing October 31, 2022