Category: Couchbase Server

Magma: The Next-Generation Document Storage Engine

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...

October 17, 2022
What is Data Modeling? Conceptual, Physical, Logical

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...

October 7, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 6: Advanced Topics

From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 6: Advanced Topics

In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data, handling errors, and using prepared statements. We have a few more advanced topics to cover before we move onto manipulating JavaScript libraries, such as calling other...

Powering the Gaming Industry’s Most Popular Titles with Couchbase

Powering the Gaming Industry’s Most Popular Titles with Couchbase

The gaming market is bigger than ever and growing. According to BusinessOfApps, over 55 billion games were downloaded in 2021 between Google Play and the Apple App Store alone, and in a recent blog on mobile gaming industry statistics, mobile...

From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 5: Prepared statements

From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 5: Prepared statements

In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data. and handling errors. We now move to executing dynamic statements. Prepared statements JavaScript functions can prepare and execute prepared statements, much like any request...

How to Choose a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

How to Choose a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

Picking a database is a long-term commitment, whether for an application or a data warehouse project. The database is the foundation of your application and provides secure storage and access to all of your information. And without data, you don’t...

Couchbase Lands A Third Database Patent

Couchbase Lands A Third Database Patent

It seems that with our third database patent, Couchbase is keeping the US Patent & Trademark Office very busy. We are thrilled to announce that Couchbase has been granted its third database patent in the last nine months. The Third...

HashiCorp Vault Support Added to Couchbase

HashiCorp Vault Support Added to Couchbase

Couchbase has expanded its partnership with HashiCorp and added support for HashiCorp Vault to keep TLS private key secrets safe. Our customers have been deploying and managing Couchbase using Terraform from HashiCorp for years because it makes architects and DevOps...

From N1QL to JavaScript and back – Part 4: Error Handling

From N1QL to JavaScript and back – Part 4: Error Handling

In previous blogs, we have covered executing N1QL from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, and manipulating data. We now move onto handling errors from N1QL statements. Error handling When an error of any nature is encountered, the jsevaluator by...

Verified Terraform Provider Released for Couchbase Capella

Verified Terraform Provider Released for Couchbase Capella

As we continue to strengthen our partnership with HashiCorp, we’re excited to announce the first release of a Verified Terraform Provider for Couchbase Capella. Terraform is widely recognized as the leading provider of infrastructure as code tool that enables you...

Upgrade to Couchbase Capella from Community Edition Now

Upgrade to Couchbase Capella from Community Edition Now

Couchbase is a NoSQL database platform that offers several editions and deployment options, including a free installation binary as well as a fully managed database as a service. This blog briefly compares our free Couchbase Community Edition to Couchbase Capella™...

August 10, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 3: Iterating over Documents and DML

From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 3: Iterating over Documents and DML

This earlier blog goes through the basics of executing N1QL statements inside JavaScript functions. We now move onto… Iterators/Processing values So far we have purposely avoided statements that return data, and returning data from the function. This is where we...