Category: Data Modeling

SQL for JSON and Full Stack Development – August 2016, Tulsa Tech Fest (Videos)
I was a speaker at the Tulsa Tech Fest on August 5th, 2016. I had a great time, met a lot of new people, and talked a lot about Couchbase. It’s rare for me to go to a conference or...

Model Your Relational Database Data as NoSQL Document Data
When I’m presenting at events, I often get questions around data modeling. It is common to interact with developers that work with relational databases, but are very interested in a NoSQL database. I, for example, started my database career with...

Couchbase Server 4.5’s new Sub-Document API
Introduction Couchbase Server 4.5 has just been released, so let’s try it out! A complete overview of all the great new features can be found here. This article will highlight the new Sub-Document API feature. What’s a sub-document? The following document...

Couchbase with Windows and .NET – Part 4 – Linq2Couchbase
Part 1 covered how to install and setup Couchbase on Windows Part 2 covered some Couchbase lingo that you’ll need to know Part 3 showed the very simplest example of using Couchbase in ASP.NET In this blog post, I’m going...

Exploring Couchbase and N1QL through Touchbase using Node.js and Angular.js – Part 5: Graphing User Data
Part 5: Graphing Necessary Materials: Node.js Express Chart.js Node Modules Used: tc-angular-chartjs body-parser moment.js Summary: To maintain a social network, and improve the experience for an end-user, it’s important to keep track of information about these users and their usage...

Document Database Granularity Level for the Relational Minded in 2 Minutes
When we explain what is NoSQL, and how Couchbase fits in that picture, we usually get questions about Relational Databases, and we can't avoid comparing the two. While their architecture are quite different, we can find some similarities in concepts....

Moving from Oracle to Couchbase
Oracle was the first database I developed with, so I know that thinking about switching to something like NoSQL and leaving behind the relational model can seem like a scary thing. The thing is, it really wasn’t scary when I...

Full Stack Development with the CEA2N Stack Webinars
Although slightly late on this post, I thought it would great to share that I’m presenting a five-part webinar series on the topic of full stack development. Now the first episode did already happen, but the great thing is that...

Data modelling for N1QL
In my posts on key-value data modelling with Couchbase, the main concerns were: * when to embed data and when to refer * building secondary indexes * key design. In a N1QL world, we’re still thinking about similar things and in this post...

Data Modelling in Document Databases for the Relational DBMS-minded
Data modeling for relational databases uses entity relationship diagrams, normalization and more…. Techniques which have evolved to perfection over the years. However data naturally does not exist in this full normalized form in real world applications. Document databases like Couchbase...