Category: Features

Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0
Improved SDK Authentication Methods – Couchbase 5.0

Couchbase 5.0 delivers new authentication security features that require minor changes to your client connection code. This post tells you how to do it!

Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)
Authorization & Authentication with RBAC (Part 2)

Authentication and authorization are important to Couchbase. I'd like to go into more detail now that the April Couchbase 5.0 Developer Build is available.

Our Commitment to Performance
Our Commitment to Performance

Couchbase is renowned for its industry leading performance. As powerful new features have been added, has our performance managed to keep pace?

Performance Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase 5.0 March Developer Build
Performance Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase 5.0 March Developer Build

The Couchbase Server 5.0 Developer Edition, March 2017 build, brings many bug fixes including performance enhancements to the N1QL technology.

N1QL: A Practical Guide
N1QL: A Practical Guide

This book is a compilation of articles on NoSQL concepts, N1QL features, optimization techniques, tools and use cases by N1QL R&D team, solution team from Couchbase.

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

In March's developer build, you can start to see some major changes to authentication and authorization within RBAC coming to Couchbase Server.

Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update)
Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update)

In March's developer build, there are some more updates for N1QL query monitoring and profiling. The Query Plan is now more visual.

Backup Your Couchbase Cluster to a Minio Object Storage Cloud
Backup Your Couchbase Cluster to a Minio Object Storage Cloud

Minio protects against hardware failure and silent data corruption. Hence see how to transfer backups to Minio using distributed object storage.

Introducing Role-Based Access Control in Couchbase Server 4.5
Introducing Role-Based Access Control in Couchbase Server 4.5

Over the years, it has been drilled into me to use “Least Privilege” access whenever and however possible. This specially applies to administrators – they manage important IT infrastructure components like NoSQL databases, and have the liberty to use all...

Concurrency Behavior: MongoDB vs. Couchbase
Concurrency Behavior: MongoDB vs. Couchbase

Multi-User Testing   David Glasser of Meteor wrote a blog on an MongoDB query missing matching documents issue he ran into.  It is straightforward to reproduce the issue on both MongoDB MMAPv1 and MongoDB WiredTiger engine. Here are his conclusions...

Introducing Couchbase Server 4.6.0 Developer Preview
Introducing Couchbase Server 4.6.0 Developer Preview

Today, we’re very excited to announce the availability of Couchbase Server 4.6.0 DP. This is an early developer release that comes with some exciting capabilities for cross datacenter replication, security, query, tools, and powerful full text search capability. The Developer...

Skipping default bucket creation
Skipping default bucket creation

Some days ago I made the following search: “databases unprotected”. It is really incredible the number of databases deployed without authentication. Most of them are just test databases published on the internet, but others are exposing sensitive data. (Image Licensed through...