Category: Data Modeling

Handle Data Modeling Errors in a Golang with Couchbase Application

Handle Data Modeling Errors in a Golang with Couchbase Application

I’ve been developing with Couchbase and the Go SDK for a while now, but recently I ran into an issue that I deemed to be a bug in the SDK after hours of troubleshooting. I was trying to execute a...

Converting XML to JSON In C# Using Json.NET

Converting XML to JSON In C# Using Json.NET

Converting XML to JSON data that can be loaded into Couchbase Server can be accomplished with a little bit of .NET. Depending on the source of the data, you might be able to use a tool like Talend. But you...

Matthew Groves July 6, 2017
Bringing SQL to NoSQL – Rich, Declarative Querying for JSON

Bringing SQL to NoSQL – Rich, Declarative Querying for JSON

Couchbase Server is a document-oriented NoSQL database. Most NoSQL systems force you to sacrifice the rich querying capabilities of SQL in trade for the other benefits they offer. At Couchbase, we’ve developed the N1QL query language to solve this problem....

Persist and Abstract Data in a Nativescript Typescript Application

Persist and Abstract Data in a Nativescript Typescript Application

Couchbase is a great tool to persist data inside our app. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a document object storage that allows you to save your data. If you are using NativeScript-Angular, there are already some great tutorials...

Data Modeling NoSQL Documents in MongoDB vs Couchbase Server

Data Modeling NoSQL Documents in MongoDB vs Couchbase Server

When I’m out at events, I get a lot of questions regarding the differences between MongoDB and Couchbase Server as they are both in the NoSQL space and are both document databases. One particular question is related to data modeling....

Sample Application with Spring and Angular: GitTalent

Sample Application with Spring and Angular: GitTalent

One of the first big projects I was involved in after I started at Couchbase last year was helping to create a sample application that would be demonstrated at Couchbase Connect. Sample application It was an enormous team effort to...

Matthew Groves May 3, 2017
SQL to JSON Data Modeling with Hackolade

SQL to JSON Data Modeling with Hackolade

SQL to JSON data modeling is something I touched on in the first part of my “Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase” series. Since that blog post, some new tooling has come to my attention from Hackolade, which has recently...

Matthew Groves April 13, 2017
FakeIt Series 4 of 5: Working with Existing Data

FakeIt Series 4 of 5: Working with Existing Data

FakeIt allows you to provide existing data to your models through JSON, CSV or CSON files. This data is exposed as an inputs variable in each of a models *run and *build functions.

FakeIt Series 3 of 5: Lean Models through Definitions

FakeIt Series 3 of 5: Lean Models through Definitions

Definitions are a way of creating reusable set(s) within your model. It allows you to define a set of properties / values one time, referencing them multiple times throughout your model. Definitions in a FakeIt model are very similar to...

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...

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....

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