Category: Application Design
Store more for less using data compression in Couchbase Server 5.5
With the launch of Couchbase Server 5.5, we have introduced end-to-end compression which allows data to remain compressed through: client to cache, to disk storage, to replication of data across data centers. Since most of our customer data is in JSON text...
Using Google Artificial Intelligence Services in Couchbase N1QL
“If you’re not using deep learning, you should be.” – Jeff Dean, Google Fellow. Google has started out with a mission to empower everything and everyone with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). It has open-sourced Tensorflow and supporting libraries to enable developers...
Use OpenWhisk for FaaS with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL
If you’ve been keeping up with my content, you’ll remember that I had written an article titled, Use AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL. In this article we had explored using Amazon’s Serverless services to create Lambda...
Couchbase for Oracle developers — Part 3 : Database Objects
Here’s the home page for the series: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ Oracle DBAs work with clusters, machines, storage systems, disks, etc. Oracle developers and their applications work with databases, tables, rows, columns, partitions, users, data types within the Oracle database system. Let’s compare and...
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture
Back in November, Raju Suravarjjala, (Sr. Director, Couchbase QE & Performance) and I presented “Mindmap: Oracle to Couchbase For Developers”. You can see the slide deck here: http://bit.ly/2mPdJfo. Overview article for the series is at is at https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/. This series is written in...
Full Text Search: Better Queries for NoSQL in Node.js
Querying a database with SQL or a similar technology is great until you find yourself needing to query natural language. Do you degrade the performance of your queries with wildcards? How about searching across multiple columns or properties? What happens...
Saga Pattern | How to Implement Business Transactions Using Microservices – Part II
In the previous post, we saw some of the challenges of implementing distributed transactions and how to implement Saga’s pattern using the Event/Choreography approach. In this article, let’s talk about how to address some of its problems like complex transactions...
Database Pagination: Using OFFSET and Keyset in N1QL
Read the pagination background in my previous article: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/optimizing-database-pagination-using-couchbase-n1ql/ Pagination is the task of dividing the potential result into pages and retrieving the required pages, one by one on demand. Using OFFSET and LIMIT is the easy way to write...
Saga Pattern | Application Transactions Using Microservices – Part I
Transactions are an essential part of applications. Without them, it would be impossible to maintain data consistency. One of the most powerful types of transactions is called a Two-Phase Commit, which is in summary when the commit of a first...
Use AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL
There has been a lot of buzz around functions as a service (FaaS), commonly referred to as serverless. A popular provider for these functions is Amazon with its AWS Lambda service. One could create a function in any of the...
Going Full Stack with Node.js, Vue.js, and Couchbase NoSQL
If you’ve been keeping up, I’m a huge advocate for Node.js development and the JavaScript development stack. Previously I had written about the Couchbase, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (CEAN) stack and modernized the backend API with Hapi.js, a popular alternative...
Serverless Architecture with Cloud Computing
Serverless is one of the new buzz words that you’ve probably heard. It refers to a type of deployment where the server is abstracted away. It doesn’t mean there aren’t servers, just that you don’t have to provision the servers...