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Keshav Murthy is a Vice President at Couchbase R&D. Previously, he was at MapR, IBM, Informix, Sybase, with more than 20 years of experience in database design & development. He lead the SQL and NoSQL R&D team at IBM Informix. He has received two President's Club awards at Couchbase, two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards at IBM. Keshav has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mysore, India, and has received twenty four US patents.

GenAI: A New Tool in the Developer Toolbox
GenAI: A New Tool in the Developer Toolbox

GenAI’s text generation capability is expected to revolutionize every aspect of developer experience and productivity. 

NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL
NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL

Dynamo accelerated the NoSQL revolution that’s driving the database industry. Recently, Amazon announced PartiQL – A SQL-Compatible Query Language for their flagship NoSQL database Amazon DynamoDB. This has brought the NoSQL “re:evolution” full circle. It’s wonderful to see the collaborative research from UCSD and...

N1QL Transactions : Elastic, Scalable, and Distributed
N1QL Transactions : Elastic, Scalable, and Distributed

N1QL transactions are multi-document, multi-bucket, multi-scope, multi collection, and multi-DML-statement. Read on to learn more!

Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance
Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance

Find out how Couchbase 6.6 removes limitations on JSON arrays by using a built-in inverted index to be used to index and query arrays in N1QL.

Comparing MongoDB MQL with N1QL features in Couchbase 6.5
Comparing MongoDB MQL with N1QL features in Couchbase 6.5

MongoDB 4.4 added a number of features for the MQL language. We compare them with new features in Couchbase 6.5 including N1QL query and analytic services.

FIRST CLASS SQL for FULL-TEXT SEARCH
FIRST CLASS SQL for FULL-TEXT SEARCH

Over time, the database industry has realized full-text search and SQL are two sides of the same coin.  Text search needs further query processing, query processing needs text search to efficiently filter for text patterns.   The SQL databases have added...

Analyze This: MongoDB & Couchbase Analytics.
Analyze This: MongoDB & Couchbase Analytics.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.  — Richard Hamming The spiral of running the business, analyzing what to change & what to change to, and then changing the business is an eternal one. Do the right analysis, your...

Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts
Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts

Many start with MongoDB to learn NoSQL and flexible JSON schema, many choose Couchbase for performance, scale, and SQL. Learn the differences in this post.

Flexible Query & Indexing for Flexible JSON Model.
Flexible Query & Indexing for Flexible JSON Model.

Use N1QL when you’re in a JSON pickle. — Confucius For the JSON data model, the advice is to think of collections as tables, JSON document as denormalized rows and field names as columns – roughly. All this holds in...

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Link to the series home page: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ As part of data remodeling, while moving from the relational model to the JSON model, you’ll have to consider the data type mapping. In Oracle, you’ll have to create and declare the types...

JSON is Case Sensitive. You Don’t Have to Be.
JSON is Case Sensitive. You Don’t Have to Be.

In this post, Couchbase demonstrates why JSON is case sensitive in certain fields and how to work with this sensitivity. Find helpful examples and more here.

Simple dataviz with N1QL and Google Sheets.
Simple dataviz with N1QL and Google Sheets.

Do whatever it takes to present the data to aid analysis and thinking.  — Edward Tufte How do you create graphs like these if you don’t already have some ready-made cool dataviz tool? You can run queries to wrangle the...