Category: Indexing

Couchbase Server 7.6 Awesomeness Unleashed: The Top 10 Features Every SRE Must Know!

Couchbase Server 7.6 Awesomeness Unleashed: The Top 10 Features Every SRE Must Know!

Hey SRE Champions! Couchbase has just dropped a game-changing update, and we’re here to immerse you in real-world stories that highlight the top 10 features turning System Administrators, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) into superheroes. Join us for a...

April 8, 2024
Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers

Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers

Faster scaling of database resources is essential for maintaining efficient and performant databases, especially with the increased pressure of data ingestion, growing query demands, and the need to handle failovers seamlessly. As application-driven query traffic is primarily handled by index...

Couchbase Server 7.6 Top New Features For Developers

Couchbase Server 7.6 Top New Features For Developers

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Couchbase 7.6, a groundbreaking update poised to redefine the landscape of database technology. This latest release is a testament to our commitment to enhancing database technology, with a significant leap in AI...

March 25, 2024
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2

Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2

This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...

October 23, 2023
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1

Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1

Since the start of this year, we (Couchbase Indexing Team) undertook a project to improve indexing service on Capella. This blog discusses the goals we planned to achieve at the start of this project and the list of improvements delivered...

October 10, 2023
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...

Smart Batching Index Builds During Rebalance in Couchbase Server 7.1

Smart Batching Index Builds During Rebalance in Couchbase Server 7.1

Rebalance is a central feature of Couchbase Server cluster management. It enables redistribution of services when nodes are added to or removed from a cluster. This feature can adjust data and indexes, plus query and event processing, among the nodes...

What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1

What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1

Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...

Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA

Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA

In this post, we introduce System Catalogs in Couchbase and walk through a specific use case compared to SQL Server. If you’re like me, after 20 years of working with SQL Server, you tend to pick up on things that...

How to Improve Database Performance: 5 Steps You Can Take

How to Improve Database Performance: 5 Steps You Can Take

Deploy a Performance Monitoring Solution Use the latest Commercial version of Couchbase Size your infrastructure accordingly Use Prepared Statements Optimize Indexes There are many steps on the road to better database performance. But first it is necessary to ask what...

Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service

Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service

Modern applications are implemented as a set of a large number of microservices. Each such microservice may run independently of many other microservices. Such applications expect underlying databases to support multi-tenancy. Couchbase Server 7.0 has introduced Scopes and Collections to...

December 14, 2021
How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL

How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL

Data migration is full of challenges. While migrating from a relational database (RDBMS) like SQL Server or Oracle, your main challenge comes at the time of denormalizing migrated documents as per the target data models. With the introduction of scopes...

December 1, 2021