Category: Couchbase Architecture
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies
In this post, we review some important considerations for planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Business continuity needs careful consideration when using Couchbase as a core business service. Today’s focus is on the application layer and the...
Steve Grimwood, Solutions Engineer
January 16, 2023
Physical Storage Layer Options for Couchbase as a Persistent System of records
In a previous blog, I talked about various storage strategies that need to be considered when choosing the correct storage to meet your business requirements. This becomes more salient as datasets continue to grow and consistent performance is mandated by...
Steve Grimwood, Solutions Engineer
November 17, 2022
Magma: The Next-Generation Document Storage Engine
The Couchbase database platform supports two storage mechanisms: Couchstore, the default, and Magma, the recently released engine. Both offer benefits under various scenarios. This blog post gives a brief overview of the new Magma storage engine, provides a comparison of...
Rick Jacobs
October 17, 2022
Couchbase Server On ARM, Supersonic Performance At Competitive Pricing
ARM v8 processors, traditionally found in the mobile phone space, are now gaining in popularity among desktop hardware vendors and major Cloud Service providers alike. ARM v8 processors offer better performance and reduced power consumption for reduced infrastructure costs over...
Ian McCloy, Director Product Management
May 31, 2022
Reduce TCO By 10x Using Couchbase 7.1 For Large Multi-Terabyte Databases
Store hundreds of terabytes of JSON data and query in milliseconds with Couchbase 7.1. Our new storage engine in 7.1, Couchbase Magma, makes Couchbase the most cost-effective and performant database, lowering TCO. With Magma storage engine, Couchbase 7.1 becomes the...
Shivani Gupta
May 12, 2022
What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1
Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing
May 10, 2022
NoSQL DBaaS benchmarks: which cloud comes out on top?
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased the pace of digitization, and for many organizations, data demands have never been higher. As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys, the need to quickly and efficiently scale their database infrastructure to meet increased...
Rick Jacobs
April 26, 2022
Combine Clusters to Achieve High Availability
Whether on-premises or on the public cloud, Couchbase customers have a distinct set of needs: ACID transactions, high durable writes, high availability and high performance. Couchbase’s architecture helps meet these needs while also reducing pain for DevOps and DBAs (perhaps...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
April 6, 2022
Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices
What can a database do to help an oil and gas company lower rising prices at the pump? It turns out, a lot! In this post, I explore some data-related factors of rapidly increasing energy costs and how Couchbase can...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
March 23, 2022
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2 Again (as I did in Part 1) I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which...
Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
December 21, 2021
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1 First I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which covers in great detail other methods...
Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
December 20, 2021
Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service
Modern applications are implemented as a set of a large number of microservices. Each such microservice may run independently of many other microservices. Such applications expect underlying databases to support multi-tenancy. Couchbase Server 7.0 has introduced Scopes and Collections to...
Amit Kulkarni
December 14, 2021