Category: Analytics

External Datasets: Accessing AWS S3 in Couchbase Analytics
Introduction to external datasets Couchbase is very excited to announce its new “External Datasets” Analytics Services feature in the latest Couchbase Server 6.6 release. External datasets empower customers to access externally stored data in real-time from Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Cloud Storage Backups with Couchbase (AWS S3 Object Stores)
Couchbase 6.6 introduced the ability to back up the document database directly to AWS S3 cloud computing storage or any other S3-compatible Object Store. Using the cbbackupmgr backup utility you can now specify an S3 bucket as a destination for...

Analytics Query Optimization – Let’s Demystify Listify
Couchbase Analytics is designed to support ad hoc queries by leveraging efficient parallel processing. This is particularly helpful when the results of one query lead you to seek answers from yet another another query. (For analysts, in other words, all...

Fully Configured Couchbase on Red Hat OpenShift in 5 Minutes
I recently did a presentation at Red Hat Users Group – North Texas on Couchbase NoSQL Operator on OpenShift. Thank you to the Red Hat Dallas team for extending the invitation for a joint session – Sam Nicholls, John Gammon, and Nick Wallace. In the...

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 Analytics: Customers’ Moments of Truth Revealed!
Introduction I recently joined Couchbase’s product team to lead Couchbase Analytics. This Analytics Service enables our customers to measure near-real time business operations, derive insights from data, and drive agile decisions to expand business growth. Within my first few weeks...

Couchbase Data Platform Partner Training
Thanks to Binh Le, Jon Strabala & Keshav Murthy for contributing to this post. Introduction Couchbase provides a wide variety of self paced online courses as well as in-person (or virtual) training through both Couchbase’s training portal. Advent of open...

Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts
Six thousand years ago, the Sumerians invented writing for transaction processing — Gray & Reuter By any measure, MongoDB is a popular document-oriented JSON database. In the last dozen years, it has grown from its humble beginnings of a single...

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...

Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
When you need to query documents using SQL, there are two options available in Couchbase. The Query service and the Analytics service. Our blog, N1QL: To Query or To Analyze? provides a detailed overview of both services. I highly recommend...

Extend Couchbase Analytics with Power BI using CData
Extend Couchbase Analytics with Power BI using CData. This article will guide you through the steps needed to setup the connection from Couchbase Analytics to Power BI Desktop using the CData Power BI driver for Couchbase. More details regarding this...

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved
We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...