Category: Best Practices and Tutorials

Few Index Management Tips – FTS Best Practices Part II

Few Index Management Tips – FTS Best Practices Part II

We have already seen a handful of best practices for defining an FTS index in part1, now let’s explore a few useful tips about the operational and maintenance aspects of an index.   A user who is new to the...

Sreekanth Sivasankaran September 23, 2019
Tutorial: Couchbase Autonomous Operator On Minikube

Tutorial: Couchbase Autonomous Operator On Minikube

This hands-on tutorial blog primarily covers details around setting up Couchbase Kubernetes Operator on a laptop/desktop running minikube. It features setting up custom TLS certs and persistent volumes. Along with checking how to scale up and down the cluster. Also...

Ram Dhakne September 4, 2019
Analytics Explain Plan – Part 1

Analytics Explain Plan – Part 1

Co-author:  Till Westmann,  Senior Director, Engineering Introduction Couchbase Analytics is the “newest kid on the block” amongst all the services available in Couchbase Server. The new service is providing rapid time to insight in many use cases like ship to...

Custom Authentication with Couchbase Mobile

Custom Authentication with Couchbase Mobile

Custom Authentication with Couchbase Mobile Couchbase Mobile extends Couchbase to the edge, securely managing and syncing data from any cloud to every mobile device. Couchbase Mobile features an embedded database – Couchbase Lite – with SQL and full-text search for...

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

XDCR, by design, provides customers the flexibility to tune the number of replications for a given bucket depending on the desired performance. New replication requires streaming all existing documents in the bucket, and, therefore, it exhibits a higher mutation rate...

Get Started with Couchbase Collections Using the Demo App

Get Started with Couchbase Collections Using the Demo App

Collections are a new feature in Couchbase 6.5. They let you group similar documents within each bucket, just as tables in relational databases collect similar records within each database. Collections will be fully supported in Couchbase 7.0, but you can...

Johan Larson August 9, 2019
Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Customers use XDCR for various use cases from high availability to data locality to disaster recovery to cloud migration and hybrid cloud deployments. To meet these use cases, there are a number of circumstances where they would want to replicate...

Extend Couchbase Analytics with RapidMiner using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with RapidMiner using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with RapidMiner using CData This article will guide you through the steps needed to setup the connection from RapidMiner to Couchbase Analytics using the CData JDBC driver for Couchbase. More details regarding this driver can be found...

Managing LDAP groups for external users in 6.5

Managing LDAP groups for external users in 6.5

In the last blog, we described a new feature in Couchbase Server 6.5 called Couchbase groups. In this blog, we will discuss about the new LDAP group capability in Couchbase Server 6.5, along with easy to follow steps to get...

Build autocomplete or typeAhead using Full Text Search

Build autocomplete or typeAhead using Full Text Search

What is Autocomplete vs Type Ahead? Autocomplete as the wikipedia says “Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing” It is also known as  Suggestions or Type...

Sreekanth Sivasankaran August 6, 2019
Cipher Suites in Couchbase Server 6.5

Cipher Suites in Couchbase Server 6.5

For many, “Cryptography” is the little green lock icon next to the web address of their favorite websites, and for others, they might recall the TLS vulnerabilities that have hit in recent years. Data is today’s digital gold, and in...

Running Couchbase Autonomous Operator on VMware

Running Couchbase Autonomous Operator on VMware

Cormac Hogan is a Director and Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Storage and Availability Business Unit (SABU) at VMware.  Bio: I joined VMware back in April 2005, and have previously held roles in VMware’s Engineering,...