Category: Couchbase Server
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Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases
Bruce Lindsay once said, “There are three things important in the database world: Performance, Performance, and Performance”. Most enterprise architects know, as we progress in database features and architectures, it’s important to measure performance in an…
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Full-text search improvements in Couchbase Server 5.5 & 6.0
Couchbase Server 5.5 and 6.0 add several new features to the Full-Text Search (FTS) service (among many other new features). Included, are performance/manageability improvements, finalizing the geospatial feature, and adding extensive new language analyzers.…
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Azure Functions with Couchbase Server (video)
Azure Functions allow you to use “serverless” architecture on Microsoft Azure. All you do is write the code, and Azure Functions takes care of the servers for you. Azure Functions In this video, I’m…
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Typeahead: Develop with Couchbase Full-Text Search & Node.js
Over the past year or so I’ve written a variety of tutorials around the full-text search (FTS) service of Couchbase, most of which are specific examples of how to do something with one of…
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Processing GraphQL Queries with Java, Spring Boot, and NoSQL
Over the span of the past few months I’ve been learning about GraphQL and how to use it as an alternative to RESTful API development. The focus thus far had been around GraphQL and…
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How to Join JSON: Couchbase N1QL vs. MongoDB Query
As NoSQL databases evolved, each added higher level APIs or languages to help programmers to complex things easily. SQL, having done that for relational data, showed the way. In SQL, developers say WHAT needs…
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Michigan User Groups this month
Michigan user groups: watch out! I’ll be spending a solid week at in your state! I’ll be talking about the tech I’m most enthusiastic about, including: Couchbase Server, .NET, C#. If you’re anywhere in…
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AKS with the Couchbase Kubernetes Operator
AKS (Azure Container Service) is the managed Kubernetes service on Microsoft Azure. It is currently in preview, so there are some things that may change down the road. In this post, I’m going to…
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Divide and Conquer: Couchbase GSI Index partitioning.
In Couchbase, data is always partitioned using the consistent hash value of the document key into vbukets which are stored on the data nodes. Couchbase Global Secondary Index (GSI) abstracts the indexing operations and…
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What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important
We have previously discussed why system observability is important in distributed systems and the challenges that it can help to overcome – if you missed it, you can see Matt Ingenthron’s introduction to the…
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Authentication With X.509 Certificates
Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is…
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Understanding Index Grouping And Aggregation in Couchbase N1QL Query
Couchbase N1QL is a modern query processing engine designed to provide aggregate SQL for JSON by index on distributed data with a flexible data model. Modern databases are deployed on massive clusters. Using JSON…