Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Introducing the New Data Replication Protocol in Couchbase Mobile 2.0
In a distributed system, updates to a shared database from multiple clients will have to be synchronized. The goal of the replication process is to ensure that all the mobile clients and the server(s) have a consistent view of the...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
August 9, 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
Is digital innovation facing a data dilemma? Part One: the engagement challenge
Technology is transforming every industry: from retail and media to healthcare and transportation. This transformation is built on the idea of engaging with customers through new, improved customer experiences. But just because transformation is happening, doesn’t mean that every business...
Peter Finter, CMO, Couchbase
August 1, 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
Defining Scan Consistency in a Node.js with Couchbase Application
Have you ever created an application where you needed to save a document into Couchbase and then immediately query for that created document? It happens to me all the time when I’m developing. Take for example, adding new data into...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 27, 2017
Using Couchbase with R
I have seen a lot of interest in the field about using Couchbase with R. It is an easy integration, so here you have some examples to start using it right now. As a little background, R is a language...
Manuel Hurtado, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
July 24, 2017
Couchbase Meetup Project on the OCEAN Stack Available
I was recently at two different Meetup groups in Southern California presenting on what I’m calling, the OCEAN stack, which is composed of Ottoman.js, Couchbase Server, Express Framework, Angular, and Node.js. We had a great turnout of developers hungry to...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 20, 2017
Bringing SQL to NoSQL – Rich, Declarative Querying for JSON
Couchbase Server is a document-oriented NoSQL database. Most NoSQL systems force you to sacrifice the rich querying capabilities of SQL in trade for the other benefits they offer. At Couchbase, we’ve developed the N1QL query language to solve this problem....
Hod Greeley, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 5, 2017
Couchbase Meetup Project on NativeScript, Angular, and NoSQL Development Available
I recently hosted a Couchbase Meetup in Mountain View, California, on the topic of NativeScript, Angular and NoSQL development. With special guest, TJ VanToll from Progress, we discussed mobile application development and how Couchbase can be included for NoSQL storage...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 4, 2017
Certificate Pinning in your Couchbase Mobile iOS App
Communication between Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway is encryped and secured using SSL/TLS. The SSL/TLS protocol relies on a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) mechanism using a X.509 certificate to establish the Sync Gateway server’s identity. The certificate is typically issued/signed...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
June 21, 2017
Getting Started with NoSQL Using Couchbase Server and PHP
A few days ago I wrote about using PHP with Docker and Couchbase, but I never really got into best practices of going all in with PHP and NoSQL databases. For example, how do you read and write data with...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
June 15, 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