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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.

Searching JSON: compare text search in Couchbase and MongoDB.
Searching JSON: compare text search in Couchbase and MongoDB.

Learn more about the text search features for an effective, compare and contrast those available features in MongoDB and Couchbase with examples.

JSON to Insights: Nobel Prize Winners dataset.
JSON to Insights: Nobel Prize Winners dataset.

Nobel prizes are announced over a week in October and the award ceremony is today, December 10th (“It’s already tomorrow in Australia”). There is an interesting story of the how C. V. Raman (of Raman effect) booked his ticket to...

JSON to Insights: Analyzing US healthcare Data.
JSON to Insights: Analyzing US healthcare Data.

“Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” This isn’t a dataset made with a bed of roses or manicured green grass. A bit more serious. Let’s see if we can quickly learn anything here. The dataset is the following. “name”...

JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy
JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy

Co-author:  Sitaram Vemulapalli, Principal Engineer, Couchbase R&D. “The answer my friend is hiding in JSON” – Bob Dylan There are a lot of public JSON datasets and then is awesome JSON datasets. Every company, including yours, has stored a lot of...

On Par with Window Functions.
On Par with Window Functions.

This post focuses on Window Functions and it's purpose. How to write a query without using windows functions and with Window functions in Mad-Hatter.

It’s the Workload, Stupid!
It’s the Workload, Stupid!

Learn workload principles and the differences in OLTP and OLAP. Check the database workload described by the modified Pink Floyd lyric.

Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions.
Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions.

Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Updating data is usually not the end, but usually a progress of a...

Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases
Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases

This post covers the YCSB benchmark and provides examples of benchmark operations, workloads, YCSB-JSON implementation and explains how to run YCSB-JSON.

AMD and Couchbase Power the Engagement Database for Today’s Massively Interactive Enterprise
AMD and Couchbase Power the Engagement Database for Today’s Massively Interactive Enterprise

Check out the solution brief that focuses on topic Couchbase Powers the Engagement Database for Today’s Massively Interactive Enterprise.

TPCx-IoT benchmark with Cisco & Couchbase.
TPCx-IoT benchmark with Cisco & Couchbase.

The Internet of Things (IoT) application brings a new dimension to the database workload.  What makes IoT click is the availability of data from the edge devices at the gateways, servers for instant analysis, rollups, etc.  Data generated is heterogeneous...

How to Join JSON: Couchbase N1QL vs. MongoDB Query
How to Join JSON: Couchbase N1QL vs. MongoDB Query

This article discusses how to join JSON documents while comparing Couchbase vs. MongoDB. Follow along as we review several real-world examples.

A Guide to N1QL features in Couchbase 5.5: Special Edition
A Guide to N1QL features in Couchbase 5.5: Special Edition

Check out the booklet "A Guide to N1QL features in Couchbase 5.5: Special Edition" which features the N1QL 5.5, security and performance features.