Category: Couchbase Server

FakeIt Series 2 of 5: Shared Data and Dependencies

FakeIt Series 2 of 5: Shared Data and Dependencies

There are tons of random data generators available, a simple Google Search will give you more than enough to choose from. However, almost all of these have the same frustrating flaw, which is they can only ever deal with a...

Couchbase 5.0 March 2017 Developer Build Features and Enhancements

Couchbase 5.0 March 2017 Developer Build Features and Enhancements

It is that time again, another month, another developer build for Couchbase.  This time we have a ton of bug fixes and feature enhancements as we get one step closer to the stable release of Couchbase 5.0. The March 2017...

FakeIt Series 1 of 5: Generating Fake Data

FakeIt Series 1 of 5: Generating Fake Data

There are countless blog posts on data modeling, key and document patterns. All of these posts give a great introduction into how to structure and model your documents in Couchbase, but none of them tell you what to do next....

Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Ian Merrington

Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Ian Merrington

In this week’s Get to Know Our Couchbase Community Champion, we go to the Sky! Meet Ian Merrington from London who works at Sky U.K. Tell us about yourself and what you do in your daily role. I work in the OTT Persistence...

Visual Studio Live Unit Testing: New to Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio Live Unit Testing: New to Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 was just officially released. It comes with a lot of new, great stuff, but one of my favorite new features is built-in Visual Studio Live Unit Testing (available in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, not yet available for...

Matthew Groves March 10, 2017
Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Customers often tell us they’re preparing to migrate from MongoDB to Couchbase. They come, in part, because they’re tired of the problems they’ve experienced learning how to query MongoDB. Couchbase with N1QL provides a better alternative, especially for scaling up...

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as...

Matthew Groves March 7, 2017
Workshop Content for Full-Stack Java and NoSQL Development Now Available

Workshop Content for Full-Stack Java and NoSQL Development Now Available

About a week ago I was at DevNexus 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, giving a workshop on creating full stack applications using a variety of technologies such as Java, Angular, Docker, Couchbase, and JavaFX. Everyone who participated in the full day...

Using Couchbase Full Text Search Service in Java

Using Couchbase Full Text Search Service in Java

Full-text based search is a feature that allows users to search based on texts and keywords, and is very popular among users and the developer community. So it’s a no-brainer that there are lots of APIs and frameworks that offer...

Flattening and Querying NoSQL Array Data With Couchbase N1QL

Flattening and Querying NoSQL Array Data With Couchbase N1QL

I was browsing the Couchbase forums and I came across a question regarding queries against array data in Couchbase. Coming from a relational database, I too once struggled to grasp the concept of querying complex formatted JSON data with SQL....

CAP Theorem and Chaos at CodeMash Conference – January 2017 (Videos)

CAP Theorem and Chaos at CodeMash Conference – January 2017 (Videos)

I was again honored to be selected as a speaker at the great CodeMash conference in Ohio. I took part in three speaking events: Are You Ready for Chaos? Horizontal Scaling in a Briefcase This session was partly a demonstration...

Matthew Groves February 27, 2017
Joining NoSQL Data: MongoDB Query Language vs Couchbase N1QL

Joining NoSQL Data: MongoDB Query Language vs Couchbase N1QL

One of the most frequent questions I receive when it comes to NoSQL is on the subject of joining data from multiple documents into a single query result. While this question is brought up more frequently from RDBMS developers, I...