Month: August 2019
Managing Couchbase Users via Groups in 6.5
In large organizations, management of security across the enterprise becomes more and more challenging as the number of apps and users grow. Having a role based access control model enables you to fine control what users get access to. However,...
Autonomous Operator 1.2.0 Public Connectivity
In my previous article I discussed—from a high level—the new Public Connectivity feature in Autonomous Operator 1.2.0. This was intentionally an abstract overview in order to coax the user to learn about the joys of DDNS, TLS and layer 3...
Customer 360 – Part 3 – Mobile Integration
We’ve done a high-level overview of what’s involved in building a Customer 360 solution on Couchbase and all the thinking involved here… Then dug into the integration part of bringing in data from disparate sources and combining them in Couchbase,...
Build autocomplete or typeAhead using Full Text Search
What is Autocomplete vs Type Ahead? Autocomplete as the wikipedia says “Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing” It is also known as Suggestions or Type...
Comparing Postgres JSONB With NoSQL
The reality is that databases are converging, and in the last few years, it is becoming even more difficult to point what are the best scenarios for each datastore without a deep understanding of how things work under the hood. ...
Cipher Suites in Couchbase Server 6.5
For many, “Cryptography” is the little green lock icon next to the web address of their favorite websites, and for others, they might recall the TLS vulnerabilities that have hit in recent years. Data is today’s digital gold, and in...
Enhanced Data Protection with Couchbase Server 6.5
With 6.5, we have made some tremendous improvements to our backup & restore technology. These improvements are optimized to enhance backup performance, consistency and storage requirements. Performance Improved performance (rate of backup & restore) with backup has been the most...
Rebalance Improvements in Couchbase Server 6.5
Rebalance is a critical component of Couchbase architecture that allows for online cluster management operations including adding/removing nodes, online upgrades of hardware or software, and recovery after node failure. Couchbase Server 6.5 makes rebalance more robust, more manageable, and faster....