Category: Sync Gateway

Scopes and Collections Support in Couchbase Mobile for Edge Applications
We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 3.1, which includes Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing solutions. This is a significant release that introduces cloud-to-edge support for scopes and collections in Couchbase Mobile...

Data Replication and Synchronization in Couchbase
Data replication and synchronization may seem redundant at first glance. They both refer to copying data from one persistent repository to another for consistency in a distributed architecture. But for Couchbase, each term has a different meaning and each is...

Rich Real-time Data Served Up By Couchbase Elevates Cycling Experience for Riders
As an avid cyclist, Pieter Morgan departed on a coast to coast ride across the USA, trusting his bike and accompanying technologies to guide him along the way. He quickly found that his cycling devices weren’t cutting it. With a...

Building a Mobile Application with Couchbase – Part 3
Part 3: Adding sync functionality to a centralized server This multipart blog will help the reader build an end-to-end mobile application using the industry-leading features of Couchbase Lite. A state of the art, end-to-end, scalable and production grade application should...

Simplifying Data Governance with Couchbase Mobile
Matching the needs of data governance with complex data management policies can be a daunting undertaking for enterprises. In this post, we demonstrate Couchbase Mobile’s ability to help implement enterprise data retention policies. What is Data Governance? According to NIST,...

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...

Postman Collections for Sync Gateway Administration
Web-based clients can administer, monitor and interact with Couchbase Sync Gateway using a RESTful interface. With the Sync Gateway 3.0 release, database administration is done exclusively through the admin REST endpoint. Postman is an API test, development and documentation tool...

Cluster-Aware Configuration Examples for Sync Gateway
The Sync Gateway 3.0 release introduces a modular, cluster-aware approach to Sync Gateway configuration that supersedes the node-level JSON configuration file based approach from earlier versions. In this post, we will take a deeper look at the new approach to...

Couchbase Mobile changes source code license to BSL 1.1
With the Couchbase Mobile 3 release, we are announcing that Couchbase is changing our source code license from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License version 1.1 (BSL 1.1) for Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite products. Last year, we announced...

Wavelength Zones for Edge Computing with Couchbase
For decades, “the last mile” has been one of the weakest parts of Internet infrastructure. Today, mobile operators are ready to change that by providing reliable and fast connectivity with LAN-like latency for mobile applications. The introduction of AWS Wavelength...