Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies
In this post, we review some important considerations for planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Business continuity needs careful consideration when using Couchbase as a core business service. Today’s focus is on the application layer and the...
Our 2022 Hot Topics and Innovations
Over the past year the Couchbase blog has been filled with product announcements, developer tutorials, conceptual introductions, and much more. Here is a look at the most popular posts that we had and why it is still worth reading today....
Why Cloud Lock In is Getting Worse
Almost everything we do, both online and offline, is powered by the cloud. Whether it’s buying groceries at your local supermarket, streaming your favorite TV show or opening an email – you are using the cloud. The computation power, storage...
Why You Need a Mobile Database
Mobile app usage is increasing worldwide, not only in user volume, but in daily time spent on apps. TechCrunch recently reported that mobile users now spend between four and five hours – roughly ⅓ of waking hours – on smartphone...
How to Model Data: A Guide To JSON Data Modeling
When beginning to learn about document databases, it’s nice to have a grasp of JSON data modeling basics. This will help you navigate the space and topics easier having an expanded vocabulary on the subject. Experience with a traditional relational...
Physical Storage Layer Options for Couchbase as a Persistent System of records
In a previous blog, I talked about various storage strategies that need to be considered when choosing the correct storage to meet your business requirements. This becomes more salient as datasets continue to grow and consistent performance is mandated by...
How to Choose the Best Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for Your Needs
Picking a database is a long-term commitment, whether for an application or a data warehouse project. The database is the foundation of your application and provides secure storage and access to all of your information. And without data, you don’t...
Couchbase as a Persistent System of Records – Storage Considerations
When using Couchbase as a persistent system of records the underlying storage infrastructure needs to be considered. Infrastructure decisions have an impact on the overall performance and availability of the data store, with the knock-on effect of impacting the data...
Building Modern Applications with JSON and SQL – Webinar
Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in how applications are conceived, designed, built and deployed. They look and behave completely differently than traditional ERP or CRM systems. We recently held a webinar highlighting how Couchbase is...
Top Blogs of 2021 – Part 1
What a whirlwind 2021 has been! We’ve had a lot of major events take place this year including debuting on Nasdaq, debuting in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, launching Couchbase Server 7.0, and of course, introducing Couchbase Capella. It’s been a...
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2 Again (as I did in Part 1) I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which...
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1 First I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which covers in great detail other methods...