Category: Couchbase Server
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Two score and five years ago two young IBM researchers brought forth on databases, a new language, conceived in relational, dedicated to the proposition that data can be manipulated declaratively and easily. In the years since Don Chamberlin and Ramond...
Couchbase in Telecom: MegaFon, Russia
Egor Kovalchuk is a deployment manager in MegaFon, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Russia. His career in telecom spans more than a decade. Egor’s team is in charge of developing, integrating, and monitoring multiple business systems and applications...
Riding the Wave to Big Data NoSQL Leadership at Couchbase
Today, Forrester Research Inc. has recognized Couchbase as a Leader in its “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019.” [download here] Recognition from Forrester is a great honor, because when they say something, the industry sits up and pays...
Couchbase Autonomous Operator & IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
What is the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service? IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides a native Kubernetes experience that is secure and easy to use. As a certified K8S provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides a wide range of powerful features. These...
Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications
Today’s businesses compete in a digital economy where downtime can be deadly. But keeping data highly available is never as simple as backing up one database to be an up-to-the-second copy of another. Instead, modern databases have to function in...
Create a production-grade Java microservice architecture with JHipster and Couchbase
Tayeb Chlyah is a Java lead architect with solid experience on performance large-scale applications, microservices, and NoSQL databases. He has developed a couple of open source Java libraries for Couchbase. Introduction Every successful developer needs to keep up to date...
Session Storage with ASP.NET: New Tutorial
Session storage is one of the cornerstones of a scalable web application. Couchbase Server is a performant, scalable, and flexible session storage choice. Beyond simply storing and retrieving session quickly, Couchbase Server also provides tools for exploring and mining session...
Couchbase – Better Scale-Out, Agility and High Availability than MongoDB
The NoSQL revolution was born in 2006 with the publication of the Google BigTable paper as internet scale applications could not get the performance, agility and availability they needed from relational databases like Oracle. The following are now key considerations...
Couchbase Monitoring Integration with Prometheus and Grafana
Couchbase is an enterprise data platform that enables performance at scale by combining a unique memory-first architecture with N1QL –which combines the agility of SQL with the power of JSON – amongst other built-in features as as Full-Text Search, Eventing,...
N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
Note: This recommendation note was written in collaboration with Till Westmann and Mike Carey, who lead the Couchbase analytics R&D. [Part 2 of this article by Even Pease is at: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/part-2-n1ql-to-query-or-to-analyze/] Couchbase’s Query and Analytics Services both support N1QL (SQL...
Real Time User Deduplication with Couchbase Eventing
User deduplication is an important activity for anyone managing a corpus of user related data. In some cases you may end up with multiple versions of the same user in your database. This can happen for any number of reasons:...
Searching JSON: compare text search in Couchbase and MongoDB.
“Apps without search is like Google homepage without the search bar.” It’s hard to design an app without a good search. These days, it’s also hard to find a database without a built-in search. MySQL to NoSQL, Sybase to Couchbase,...