Category: Couchbase Server

Meeting data protection needs for Couchbase Data Platform

Meeting data protection needs for Couchbase Data Platform

In the world where data is the currency, backup & recovery for a database is as essential as any other defining parameter such as consistency or performance because the customers cannot afford data loss under any circumstance. Couchbase offers a...

JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy

JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy

Co-author:  Sitaram Vemulapalli, Principal Engineer, Couchbase R&D. “The answer my friend is hiding in JSON” – Bob Dylan There are a lot of public JSON datasets and then is awesome JSON datasets. Every company, including yours, has stored a lot of...

Keshav Murthy December 1, 2018
Understanding Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) – Part 1

Understanding Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) – Part 1

If you have any familiarity with Couchbase, you definitely know XDCR. If you use Couchbase for any of your applications, you are very likely using XDCR. I wouldn’t be wrong if I said, XDCR is indeed one of our customers’...

Connecting to Couchbase via ODBC

Connecting to Couchbase via ODBC

Couchbase Analytics Couchbase Data Platform now supports hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. Plus, our massively parallel processing (MPP) query engine lets users run ad-hoc analytical queries that deliver faster insights without impacting performance. Couchbase Analytics reduces the time to insight...

On Par with Window Functions.

On Par with Window Functions.

Use golf analogy when explaining to executives. Use a car analogy for all others.  — Confucius. The purpose of window functions is to translate the business reporting requirements declaratively and effectively to SQL so query performance and developer/business-analyst efficiency improve...

Keshav Murthy November 22, 2018
Full-Text Search Indexing Best Practices & Tips – Part 1

Full-Text Search Indexing Best Practices & Tips – Part 1

Full-Text Search – Indexing Tips Understanding the Full-Text Search (FTS) indexing options are essential for building the right index for the job at hand. The right index here refers to a lean and rich enough inverted index that can serve...

Sreekanth Sivasankaran November 19, 2018
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0

We’re happy to announce the release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0. As many of you know, version 1.0 which got released on August 30th was the first NoSQL production-ready Kubernetes operator for open source Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Couchbase Autonomous...

It’s the Workload, Stupid!

It’s the Workload, Stupid!

As an application architect, eventually, you’d have to choose the database or database as a service (DBaaS) to power your newest application or a micro-service. Selecting one of the databases among relational databases was easier.  The use cases were roughly...

Keshav Murthy November 14, 2018
NDP Episode #25: Nathan Voxland on Liquibase

NDP Episode #25: Nathan Voxland on Liquibase

Liquibase is the focus of the latest episode of The NoSQL Database Podcast. Nathan Voxland joins as the special guest to talk about source control for your database. I’m also joined by special co-host Denis Rosa, a developer advocate who...

Matthew Groves November 13, 2018
Eventing Service Best Practices

Eventing Service Best Practices

Couchbase Eventing Service was introduced in Couchbase Data Platform 5.5 release.  Couchbase Data Platform 6.0 release saw the introduction of Timers. Similar to the Indexing Best Practices that we had published earlier, let’s look at some best practices when it comes to...

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.0 with Analytics

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.0 with Analytics

We are proud to announce that Couchbase Server 6.0 is now available, with the central theme of helping reduce the time to insight from enterprise applications. As part of this release, Couchbase Analytics service is now officially available. After two...

Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions.

Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions.

Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Updating data is usually not the end, but usually a progress of a...

Keshav Murthy October 20, 2018