Category: Application Design
Comparing Couchbase Views with Couchbase N1QL & Indexing.
As Couchbase data platform evolved, services like N1QL and GSI Indexing handled the use cases Couchbase VIEWS used to handle and much more. It’s logical to ask the comparative question between them. Here is a table comparing both. This is...
Keshav Murthy
December 4, 2017
Create the Right Index, Get the Right Performance.
Introduction There are three things important in database systems: performance, performance, performance. For NoSQL database systems, there are three important things: performance at scale, performance at scale, performance at scale. Understanding the index options, creating the right index, with the...
Keshav Murthy
November 12, 2017
Optimizing Database Pagination using Couchbase N1QL.
Background: How does Google do it? When you google something or anything, it gives you back top relevant results, tells you an approximate number of documents for your topic — all under a second. Here are some high-level pointers: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/algorithms/...
Keshav Murthy
November 2, 2017
Create a RESTful API with Node.js, Hapi, and Couchbase NoSQL
Developing Node.js applications with Express is no doubt a very popular option, however it isn’t the only option and it may not even be the best option. I recently started looking into Hapi which defines itself as being a framework...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
October 2, 2017
Dependency Injection with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase
Dependency Injection is a design pattern that makes coding easier. It saves you the hassle of instantiating objects with complex dependencies, and it makes it easier for you to write tests. With the Couchbase.Extensions.DependencyInjection library (GitHub), you can use Couchbase...
Matthew Groves
September 8, 2017
Midwest JS Project Source on Full Stack Node Development, Available
Back in August I had participated in Midwest JS located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As you may know, I’m a huge fan of developing full stack applications with the JavaScript stack. This is exactly what I had presented on at the conference. My...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
September 1, 2017
Developing a User Profile Store with Golang and a NoSQL Database
Remember the tutorial series I wrote in regards to creating a user profile store with Node.js and NoSQL? That tutorial covered a lot of ground, from creating a RESTful API with Node.js, handling user sessions, data modeling, and of course...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 29, 2017
Aggregate grouping with N1QL / MapReduce
Aggregate grouping is what I’m titling this blog post, but I don’t know if it’s the best name. Have you ever used MySQL’s GROUP_CONCAT function or the FOR XML PATH('') workaround in SQL Server? That’s basically what I’m writing about...
Matthew Groves
August 22, 2017
Bringing Your User Profile Store to Mobile with NativeScript and Angular
Continuing down the path of user profile stores, we had previously seen how to create one with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL as well as a web client front-end for it using Angular. What if we wanted to take this into...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 15, 2017
Use TypeScript, Angular as the Front-End for Your User Profile Store
I recently wrote a tutorial titled, Creating a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database, as it is a very popular subject and use-case when it comes to NoSQL databases. In that tutorial, we created an API using Node.js...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 8, 2017
Create a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database
There are many use-cases for NoSQL databases, one that I encounter frequently is creating a user profile store and session. This use-case lends itself to a NoSQL database. Profiles often need to be flexible and accept data changes. While possible...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 31, 2017
Deploy a PHP with Couchbase Application as Docker Containers
Earlier in the year I wrote about containerizing applications written in various development technologies that communicate with Couchbase Server. For example, I had written about deploying a Golang application with Docker, a Java application with Docker, and a Node.js application...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
June 13, 2017