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Couchbase 101-102-103 (Series 1)
We recently started an online webinar series to cover the core components of Couchbase Server from installation through getting set up for development and understanding indexing. A number of questions came up during the webinars and I am posting a...
How to : Implement Document Versioning with Couchbase
[This blog was syndicated from http://blog.grallandco.com] Introduction Developers are often asking me how to “version” documents with Couchbase 2.0. The short answer is: the clients and server do not expose such feature, but it is quite easy to implement. In...
SQL to NoSQL : Copy your data from MySQL to Couchbase
[This blog was syndicated from http://blog.grallandco.com] Introduction During my last interactions with the Couchbase community, I had the question how can I easily import my data from my current database into Couchbase. And my answer was always the same: Take...
Fun with Couchbase and Markov Chains
I’ve been hearing about Markov chains for long enough – it was time that I learned more about them and develop a simple fun markov chain application. I’m sure that you don’t want to get bogged down by the mathematical...
Loading JSON data into Couchbase
If you’re writing a web application, you’re probably already familiar with JSON documents. Couchbase supports JSON documents and sooner or later you will need to import some JSON documents into Couchbase Server But just because you inserted data into Couchbase...
Lost your files from rm -rf * ? No problem, you have a backup
I recently came across video that describes how someone had accidentally typed the ‘rm *’ linux command during production of the Toy Story 2 movie and all the graphics, the art work, the scripts “vanished”. Luckily, they had a backup...
Schema Flexibility is SCRUMptious
Waterfall Methodologies seem antiquated nowadays, with SCRUM, Crystal, eXtreme, Kanban and others, all these new paradigms for building applications iteratively and quickly have really become commonplace. I feel NoSQL with Couchbase is the next evolution of that movement, allowing you...
Do More With Less
This is my “Hello World”, or rather my “Hello Blog” and I wanted to introduce myself. I, like many, have come from the startup world. Let's not kid ourselves, being from the “startup world” means being from the technology scrapyard...
Membase Server is Now Couchbase Server
This is my first blog posting at Couchbase – and one I’m very happy to be writing! Today we shipped Couchbase Server 1.8, culminating a tremendous amount of work since I joined Couchbase three months ago. Before getting in to...
Client Libraries for Couchbase Server
Couchbase Server is simple to develop for by it’s very nature. Modeling your data, as many of my colleagues often say, is simply a matter of organizing it like the natural world around you. I know that seems like a...
Membase Server is Now Generally Available!
I am proud to say we have just released Membase Server 1.6 for general availability. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our hundreds of beta users, who have worked with us over the past few months providing excellent...
NorthScale at Zynga
We launched NorthScale with our story on working with Zynga. Software geeks out there may have wanted to know more about how Zynga and NorthScale collaborated on to build membase…We launched NorthScale with our story on working with Zynga. Software...