Category: Couchbase Architecture

Configuring Analytics in Couchbase Server 5.5

Configuring Analytics in Couchbase Server 5.5

Couchbase Analytics Developer Preview 4 brought the ability to manage Analytics nodes from the Couchbase Server administration console. With the release of Couchbase Server 5.5, we’ve unified the installation experience as well. To illustrate the seamless installation, I’ll take you...

Introducing Couchbase Eventing Service

Introducing Couchbase Eventing Service

It gives us immense pleasure in announcing the launch of Couchbase Eventing Service as part of the Couchbase Data Platform 5.5. This new offering brings compute closer to data and lets customers process changes (create/ update/ delete/ expiry) to data...

Store more for less using data compression in Couchbase Server 5.5

Store more for less using data compression in Couchbase Server 5.5

With the launch of Couchbase Server 5.5, we have introduced end-to-end compression which allows data to remain compressed through: client to cache, to disk storage, to replication of data across data centers. Since most of our customer data is in JSON text...

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build It is my pleasure to share this early preview of Couchbase Server 5.5 features – there are some very exciting improvements coming and this Developer Build (DB) highlights several of them. There are many...

March 8, 2018
Tuning your replication stream for most optimal performance

Tuning your replication stream for most optimal performance

XDCR is a high performance asynchronous data replication system used primarily to replicate data between your Couchbase clusters deployed in different data centers. Several Fortune 500 enterprises rely on XDCR for their mission-critical applications. High availability, disaster recovery and data...

Optimize Latency, Throughput With Master Slave Replication

Optimize Latency, Throughput With Master Slave Replication

In Couchbase, latency and throughput are significantly impacted by data replication. There are different kinds of data replication models, mainly master-slave (Couchbase, MongoDB, Espresso), master-master (BDR for PostgreSQL, GoldenGate for Oracle) and masterless (Dynamo, Cassandra). This article only discusses the...

February 20, 2018
Develop with Agility, Develop at any Scale with Couchbase on Cisco UCS

Develop with Agility, Develop at any Scale with Couchbase on Cisco UCS

Author’s note: This excerpt from the Couchbase on Cisco UCS® solution brief is published on behalf of Cisco. Full solution brief for Couchbase on Cisco UCS® is available later in this blog. As the world migrates to a digital economy, businesses are...

February 16, 2018
GDPR: Businesses must focus on digital transformation, not just tick-box compliance

GDPR: Businesses must focus on digital transformation, not just tick-box compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now a matter of months away.  Vendors of all shapes and sizes are ramping up their GDPR scare stories (e.g. the potential fines) to trigger a response from businesses. Couchbase is taking a...

February 6, 2018
Couchbase and  Ansible

Couchbase and Ansible

Arkadiusz Borucki works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Amadeus, focused on NoSQL databases and automation. In his day-to-day work, he uses Couchbase, MongoDB, Oracle, Python, and Ansible. He’s a self-proclaimed big data enthusiast, interested in data store technologies, distributed systems, analytics,...

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture

Back in November, Raju Suravarjjala, (Sr. Director, Couchbase QE & Performance) and I  presented “Mindmap: Oracle to Couchbase For Developers”. You can see the slide deck here: http://bit.ly/2mPdJfo. Overview article for the series is at is at https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/. This series is written in...

January 22, 2018
Deep Dive on Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)

Deep Dive on Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)

We saw in a previous post how easy is to set up a Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR), today let’s go a little bit deeper to understand what makes XDCR such a great feature. First of all, XDCR allows you...

Couchbase vs. DynamoDB – A Quick Comparison

Couchbase vs. DynamoDB – A Quick Comparison

Choosing a NoSQL database is way more complicated than selecting an RDBMS, the world of NoSQL database comes in multiple flavors, each one has a specific design focused on solving a different set of problems. A common comparison and recently...