Category: Couchbase Server

Supercharge your Data Mesh strategy with Couchbase Capella
“Data as a Product” In the face of challenging economics and intensified customer focus, organizations are trying to lower costs and maximize efficiency – and one way they hope to do it is by treating data as a product, that...

Streaming Data using Amazon MSK with Couchbase Capella
We see that a significant number of customers take advantage of Couchbase integration with Apache Kafka by using the Couchbase Kafka connector plugin to reliably stream data to and from Apache Kafka at scale. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform...

How to lower your company’s AI risk in 2023
With the OpenAI’s landmark releases of DALL·E 2, and ChatGPT last year, people have been interacting with artificial intelligence and seeing first hand (a tiny bit of) its potential. These tools can feel like magic. Each takes a textual prompt...

High-volume Data Management Using Couchbase Magma – A Real Life Case Study
Managing large volumes of high velocity data brings a unique set of challenges. From the ability of the database to ingest the data to the TCO of the solution given expanding data volumes. Couchbase’s new Magma storage engine provides a...

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...

Advanced Geospatial Support added to Search Service
The Couchbase Search service is introducing higher dimensional geospatial indexing and querying capabilities with the Couchbase Server release 7.1.2. Until this new feature, the Search service was limited to indexing single dimensional geopoint/location fields. Queries were limited to bounding queries...

Why Choose a NoSQL Database? There Are Many Great Reasons
NoSQL, short for “Not only SQL,” is a term used for database systems that store information in a variety of formats to support requirements that traditional relational (or SQL) databases have difficulties addressing. Legacy relational systems were designed to minimize...

From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 7: Hierarchical JavaScript Storage
In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data, handling errors, prepared statements and other advanced topics. The final topic to cover is a newly added feature to 7.1 that enables JavaScript library storage options....

How Couchbase Customers Build Offline First Apps That Work Anywhere, All The Time
Consider the following questions: Are the mobile apps that you deliver suffering poor adoption or bad reviews on app stores? Can the mobile apps that you build be used anywhere, including the middle of nowhere? Are you losing business due...

Security vulnerability CVE-2022-42889, Text4Shell
What is Text4Shell vulnerability? A critical severity security vulnerability affecting the Apache Commons Text library (CVE-2022-42889) Text4Shell that can be exploited and was made public on October 13, 2022. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated...

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...

What is Data Modeling? Conceptual, Physical, Logical
Data modeling is the process of planning a structure to represent how information and relationships between information will be stored in your system. This post is a brief introduction to data modeling, as well as three progressive types of data...