Category: Couchbase Server
Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved
We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...
ANSI JOIN Enhancements and ANSI MERGE
Introduction N1QL support for ANSI JOIN was first introduced in version 5.5. Currently there is a restriction in ANSI JOIN (version 5.5 and 6.0) in that the right-hand side of an ANSI JOIN must be a keyspace. This restriction will...
Bingjie Miao, Principal Software Engineer Couchbase
January 21, 2020
Introducing Geo Bounded Polygon Query in Full Text Search
Geo Bounded Polygon Query The ability to perform text search with geospatial query capabilities is a very powerful and effective feature from full text search(FTS). And we are bringing the more flexible geo bounded polygon query feature to FTS in...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran
January 16, 2020
Index Planner for Global Secondary Indexes
Integral aspect of any distributed system is to seamlessly provide high availability (HA) and load balancing capabilities to its user. With little to no input from user, Couhbase’s Global Secondary Indexes1 (GSI) provides its users with both – HA and Load...
Amit Kulkarni
January 5, 2020
ASP.NET Core Microservices: Getting Started
ASP.NET Core Microservices: applications that will be responsible for a single “vertical” slice of an overall application/service architecture. Why ASP.NET Core microservices? There are a lot of opinions and recommendations about what microservices are, when to use microservices vs a...
Matthew Groves
November 7, 2019
How to Update Python 2 to Python 3 & The Differences Between Them
Introduction The last major Python upgrade — to version 3 — arrived in Dec. 2008, nearly 12 years ago. And yet there is a good chance that you are still working on the Python 2 product or test code. If...
Jagadesh Munta, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase
October 13, 2019
Testing N1QL Workloads with Apache JMeter
One of the key features that Couchbase provides for querying JSON data is a N1QL language. N1QL allows users to access and modify the contents of their JSON documents with familiar SQL statements. Quite often, during development phase of a...
Pavel Novokshonov, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
October 2, 2019
Few Index Management Tips – FTS Best Practices Part II
We have already seen a handful of best practices for defining an FTS index in part1, now let’s explore a few useful tips about the operational and maintenance aspects of an index. A user who is new to the...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran
September 23, 2019
Deep Dive: Window functions in Couchbase Analytics
Couchbase Server 6.5 brings a host of new features [1] to the leading NoSQL database. One of the key additions to the N1QL query language is support for window functions. These functions were originally introduced in the SQL:2003 standard and provide...
Dmitry Lychagin, Principal Engineer, Couchbase
September 20, 2019
Tutorial: Couchbase Autonomous Operator On Minikube
This hands-on tutorial blog primarily covers details around setting up Couchbase Kubernetes Operator on a laptop/desktop running minikube. It features setting up custom TLS certs and persistent volumes. Along with checking how to scale up and down the cluster. Also...
Ram Dhakne
September 4, 2019
Analytics Explain Plan – Part 1
Co-author: Till Westmann, Senior Director, Engineering Introduction Couchbase Analytics is the “newest kid on the block” amongst all the services available in Couchbase Server. The new service is providing rapid time to insight in many use cases like ship to...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
September 4, 2019
Window functions in Couchbase Analytics
Co-author: Till Westmann, Senior Director, Engineering The bits for Couchbase 6.5, the upcoming release of Couchbase Server, are now available. The Analytics service, which supports efficient parallel query processing, has added support for support for window functions defined in the...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
August 12, 2019