Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Moving SQL business logic to the Application Layer
Last time we left with a very raw, straight forward import of SQL tables in Couchbase, with one document per table row. But there is still work to do. Primary keys have changed in the process so we need to...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
January 26, 2016
Moving SQL database content to Couchbase
Since the GA release of N1QL, we get a lot of questions about moving content from a SQL database to Couchbase. There are many different ways to do so. Today, I have chosen what is probably the simplest. I will...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
January 25, 2016
NDP Episode #1: NoSQL in the Perspective of Industry Leaders
I am pleased to announce the first ever NoSQL Database Podcast episode hosted by Couchbase. The episode is titled NoSQL in the Perspective of Industry Leaders and focuses on a lot of introductory material for NoSQL in general. In the...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
January 19, 2016
Storing Blobs in Couchbase for Content Management
This blog was originally posted on Cecile Le Pape's personal blog. To see to original blog post, click here. In my previous post, I talked about how to setup a flexible content management service using Couchbase as the metadata repository,...
Cecile Le Pape, Solutions Architect, Couchbase
January 13, 2016
Test the Latest Couchbase Features with a Docker Image
We’re lucky to have a smart and active team of developers at Couchbase and they often come up with new things for us try out! If you follow this blog you might have seen we published a developer preview for...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
January 12, 2016
Free Couchbase training online
If you’re new to Couchbase, or non-relational databases generally, you might be wondering where to start your learning. You can get up to speed quickly by following our new introductory online training courses. They’re free and will take you from knowing...
Matthew Revell, Lead Developer Advocate, EMEA, Couchbase
January 9, 2016
The Value of Schemaless Databases
Schemaless (or “schema-less”) databases are the latest buzzword in the IT world. Geek programmers seem to love the flexibility and low cost and these attributes have fired up many a start-up. Having come from a heavily relational database background the...
Sandhya Krishnamurthy, Senior Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
January 7, 2016
How to Authenticate Couchbase with Windows Active Directory (via LDAP)
This blog was originally posted on Roi Katz’s personal blog site. Please click here to find the original post. Hi all! So you want to authenticate users access to Couchbase through your Active Directory LDAP service. Couchbase has that ability. You can...
Roi Katz, Solution Architect, Couchbase
January 5, 2016
Couchbasics: How Functional and Performance Needs Determine Data Access in Couchbase
There are multiple ways of getting data in and out of Couchbase. Notice that I did not say querying, I said in and out…on purpose. Not all ways of getting data in and out of Couchbase are querying like in...
Kirk Kirkconnell, Senior Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
January 4, 2016
Performing Bulk Operations in Couchbase Using Golang
A frequently asked question by the Couchbase developer community is “how can I perform bulk type operations?” The expectation is that a high performance data platform will support batching to improve performance. All Couchbase SDK clients support batching operations. Through...
Todd Greenstein
January 4, 2016
The Best Database For Storing Images Might Not Be a Database At All
Which database is best for storing images? I am asked routinely about storing images, documents, PDFs or other binary objects in Couchbase. Or, almost as frequently, is Couchbase the best database for storing images? As an architect for services and...
Kirk Kirkconnell, Senior Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
January 1, 2016
Couchbase on Jelastic
I recently started playing around with Jelastic. They provide Platform-as-Infrastructure. It's a PaaS + IaaS platform. They recently released a new version named Joker (for Jelastic + Docker). And one of their particularities is to offer easy horizontal AND vertical...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 22, 2015