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Creating Dynamic VMs Infrastructure With Xen Hosts

Creating Dynamic VMs Infrastructure With Xen Hosts

Introduction In today’s world, the server infrastructure machines are either in on-premise data centers, private data centers or public cloud data centers. These machines are either physical bare metal machines, virtual machines (VMs) with hypervisors  or small containers like docker...

Monitoring a NoSQL Database with Couchbase and Prometheus

Monitoring a NoSQL Database with Couchbase and Prometheus

Couchbase Server currently has a plethora of stats from data access throughput in KV and query to system resources like disk IO and CPU to newer services like eventing. There have been a number of community authored Prometheus Exporters written...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!

We’re proud to announce the general availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0. We have achieved significant milestones since we first announced production certification of Couchbase Server on Docker containers in June of 2016, and with Autonomous Operator 2.0, we are...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 2

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 2

Prerequisites As mentioned in Part 1 of the blog, we need to run Prometheus and Grafana in the Kubernetes environment on our Amazon EKS. The recommended way is to use Kube-Prometheus, an Open Source project. Not only will this simplify...

Prasad Doddi April 21, 2020
Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 1

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 1

We recently announced the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.0 beta. This release is a significant update to the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 introduces several new enterprise-grade features with fully autonomous capabilities – security,...

Prasad Doddi April 21, 2020
Why Couchbase Is the Best NoSQL Option for Red Hat OpenShift

Why Couchbase Is the Best NoSQL Option for Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat’s leadership in the container orchestration space with OpenShift mirrors Couchbase’s leadership in the containerized database space with its Autonomous Operator. This fact is the foundation of the partnership between Red Hat and Couchbase. I’ve personally worked on the...

Evan Pease April 13, 2020
Index Advisor Service for N1QL (March refresh)

Index Advisor Service for N1QL (March refresh)

This is our March drop for Index Advisor service for N1QL after fixing some of the bugs that were found after our last refresh in Feb. We plan to keep improvising the Index Advisor service(What is it?). The fixes in...

Kamini Jagtiani March 31, 2020
NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase

NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase

Replication has been a crucial part of Database Systems for decades for providing availability and disaster recovery. In recent times, with the evolution of distributed databases to address the need for highly available, scalable and globally distributed deployments operating across...

Inter-Kubernetes Networking via VPC Peering

Inter-Kubernetes Networking via VPC Peering

1. Introduction It is often desirable by enterprise customers to have standby database cluster/s for data locality and high performance, disaster recovery and/or for mere data backups. Couchbase Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) requires no introduction as customers have been...

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta

Introducing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta Today, we are delighted to announce the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.0 beta. This release is a significant update to the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. This release introduces several new enterprise-grade...

Index Advisor Service for Couchbase N1QL(Feb refresh)

Index Advisor Service for Couchbase N1QL(Feb refresh)

This is our Feb drop for Index Advisor service after fixing some of the bugs that were found. We plan to keep improvising the Index Advisor service(What is it?). The fixes in Index Advisor that you would normally see in...

Kamini Jagtiani February 12, 2020
Couchbase Backup / Restore in K8s Environment

Couchbase Backup / Restore in K8s Environment

1. Introduction Periodic backup of data is an important part of any production database deployment, which helps ensure data recovery in the event of a disaster and it also minimizes data inconsistency when a restore is required. Couchbase provides cbbackupmgr...