Category: JavaScript
How to lower your company’s AI risk in 2023
With the OpenAI’s landmark releases of DALL·E 2, and ChatGPT last year, people have been interacting with artificial intelligence and seeing first hand (a tiny bit of) its potential. These tools can feel like magic. Each takes a textual prompt...
Aaron Schneider - Associate Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
February 21, 2023
The Top 8 Best Languages for Backend Development
Computer programming is becoming an increasingly necessary and popular skill. Many high school and college graduates are exposed to programming even if they are not in a computer science field. This rise in exposure has led to new programmer archetypes...
Rick Jacobs
November 28, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 7: Hierarchical JavaScript Storage
In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data, handling errors, prepared statements and other advanced topics. The final topic to cover is a newly added feature to 7.1 that enables JavaScript library storage options....
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase
November 3, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 6: Advanced Topics
In previous blogs, we covered executing N1QL (SQL++) from JavaScript functions, processing documents through iterators, manipulating data, handling errors, and using prepared statements. We have a few more advanced topics to cover before we move onto manipulating JavaScript libraries, such as calling other...
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase
October 4, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 3: Iterating over Documents and DML
This earlier blog goes through the basics of executing N1QL statements inside JavaScript functions. We now move onto… Iterators/Processing values So far we have purposely avoided statements that return data, and returning data from the function. This is where we...
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase
August 4, 2022
From N1QL to JavaScript and Back – Part 2: Basic Usage
The previous blog introduced to you new features in JavaScript user-defined functions. We are now going to explore them in more detail. We start with a basic mechanism to execute N1QL statements inside JavaScript code. N1QL in JavaScript There are...
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase
July 26, 2022
From N1QL to Javascript and Back – Part 1: Introduction
Among the many great features introduced in Couchbase Server 7.0, one has the potential for a greater impact in later releases: N1QL User Defined Functions. A quick glance at the past N1QL is a declarative language, meaning that requests merely...
Marco Greco, Software Architect, Couchbase
July 13, 2022
Using the Eventing Service to Consolidate Data from Multiple Sources
One of the many advantages of using a document-based database such as Couchbase is the ability to use a flexible data model to store data without the constraints of a rigid, predetermined schema. Many customers choose a NoSQL database to...
Daniel James, Senior Solutions Engineer
July 6, 2022
Traverse Hierarchy with SQL++ User-defined functions (UDFs)
User-defined functions (UDFs) are a feature that exist in most RDBMS. Whether it is Oracle PL/SQL (Procedural Language for SQL), SQL Server T-SQL (Transact-SQL), PL/pgSQL (Procedural Language/PostgreSQL), or other variants, all these languages have the general characteristics of providing a...
Binh Le
May 26, 2022
Creating Python and JavaScript User Defined Functions For Geospatial Queries
SQL++ queries can access data stored in your Couchbase cluster in a variety of ways. There are situations where having the business logic as part of your data queries can also be beneficial. SQL++ supports this with User Defined Functions...
Nithish Raghunandanan
April 20, 2022
Event-driven architecture with Solace Event Broker & Couchbase
The asynchronous event-driven architecture of Couchbase is the core of its design. Document mutations continuously stream to the Couchbase Index, Analytics, Eventing and Search services. This architecture guarantees that the Couchbase services are updated in real-time and enables us to...
Marian Puhl, Solutions Engineer
January 28, 2022
JavaScript evolution for Couchbase: Connect 2021 sessions
Support for JavaScript remains a priority for us at Couchbase–and during the Couchbase ConnectONLINE 2021 event last year, where we discussed how we evolved our support for JavaScript over the past year. This blog post will summarize the JavaScript-related takeaways...
Vinai Amble
January 4, 2022