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Picking the right caching tier for your database!
Why Do You Need a Caching Tier? For many years databases have been in need of a caching tier and for good reason. Caching tiers are used to lower the latencies under high throughput to cache both reads and writes depending...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
March 29, 2016
Visual Studio Code, the Integrated SQL Editor and N1QL Query Execution
Couchbase Server 4.5 and GO_CBQ With Couchbase Server 4.5, we are providing a new enhanced commandline query execution tool called “go_cbq”. The new binary comes with capabilities for scripting support, connection management and more. I have been using go_cbq for...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
March 20, 2016
PowerBI & Couchbase Server 4 – Reporting over JSON Data with native connectivity through N1QL REST API
PowerBI and Native JSON Processing PowerBI is one of the great new reporting environments you can use to visualize data. One great advantage of PowerBI is its native JSON support and built-in programmable transformation engine. Power-BI can simply directly talk...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
March 11, 2016
Excel and Couchbase Server v4 with N1QL – No ODBC Required!
Microsoft Office 2016 with Excel and Native JSON Processing Microsoft Office and Excel is the de-facto reporting environment for many of us. One great advantage of Excel is its native JSON support and built-in programmable transformation engine. Excel can simply...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
March 11, 2016
JSON+SQL: How SQL Extensions are Helping SQL Adapt to Flexibility of JSON
Dzone.com is one of my favorite destinations and I started contributing some articles there on how I think the industry should move on JSON and SQL. Here is a teaser: —- How SQL Extensions are Helping SQL Adapt to Flexibility...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
January 23, 2016
N1QL vs TSQL – Aggregations with Couchbase Server vs SQL Server
SQL has been around for a loooooong time. It is very intuitive and efficient way to process structured data and has been the choice for databases for many years. With the world of BIG DATA however, data has velocity, variety...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
January 5, 2016
Data Modelling in Document Databases for the Relational DBMS-minded
Data modeling for relational databases uses entity relationship diagrams, normalization and more…. Techniques which have evolved to perfection over the years. However data naturally does not exist in this full normalized form in real world applications. Document databases like Couchbase...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
December 16, 2015
Showcasing Couchbase Server at DEVIntersection Conference in Vegas
Tomorrow, we will be showcasing Couchbase Server at the DEVIntersections 2015 Conference. We have a few of the .Net and Couchbase Server gurus at the Booth. I’ll be talking about and demoing Couchbase Server 4.0 and N1QL. I’ll cover how...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
October 27, 2015
Kicking off the week at Wall Street : Couchbase Live New York 2015
Hi There Couchers, We are at the kick off here at Wall Street for Couchbase Live New York – 2015. This will be an exciting week with great news, presentations and demos from Couchbase and customers here in the east...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
October 5, 2015
Release Candidate for Couchbase Server 4.0 is Here
Today we’re excited to announce the release of Couchbase Server 4.0 Release Candidate (RC0) for testing. Release Candidate improves on the Couchbase Server 4.0 RC0 release from June with quality improvements. 4.0 release is a major release with major architectural...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
September 3, 2015
Introducing Couchbase Server 4.0 Developer Preview
We’re excited to pull back the curtain on the developer preview of Couchbase Server 4.0. This early release comes with many great enhancements, including new query interface with N1QL (SQL+JSON), brand new indexing for low latency queries with Global Secondary...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
September 1, 2015
Introducing N1QL: SQL gene in NoSQL
SQL Gene in NoSQL: Introducing N1QL NoSQL have been a reaction to relational movement that required rigid schema. Relational database bundled SQL query language to powerfully search and reshape the results to compensate. With version 4.0, Couchbase Server contains both the...
Cihan Biyikoglu, Director of Product Management, Couchbase
September 1, 2015