Category: Search
Geospatial Basics, Spatial Databases & NoSQL Examples
This brief intro to several geospatial data concepts covers spatial databases, spatial indexing, and using GeoJSON data in NoSQL. What is Spatial Data? Spatial data are data types (files, databases, web services) that encode geographic information for use in location-aware...
Tyler Mitchell
March 11, 2021
R Programming With Coucbhase NoSQL Queries & Maps
Many statistical data analysts and data scientists use the R programming language to crunch their numbers outside of a database. Likewise, database analysts try to do everything in the same database whenever possible to maintain a single source. Couchbase provides...
Tyler Mitchell
March 9, 2021
Data Structures & Algorithms For NoSQL Applications
This article introduces Data Structures and how they work with Couchbase Server 7.0 Scopes and Collections features. What are data structures? Couchbase Data Structures is an API feature that aligns the language of the database interface with a programming language....
Tyler Mitchell
January 22, 2021
7 Useful Tips for Your Full-Text Search Production Systems
Creating the right search index and tuning its various configurations is very essential to the smooth working of any Full-Text Search production systems. These operational aspects play a key role in improving the indexing and querying performance of the search...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran
November 9, 2020
Taming the Gerrymander with Geospatial Search
The Basics Before you read any further, please take a few minutes and read the excellent post on geospatial search in Couchbase, as published by my friend and colleague Brian Kane: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/geospatial-search-how-do-i-use-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/ Go ahead; I’ll wait. Now that you’re back,...
Peter Reale
November 4, 2020
Using NoSQL for Geospatial Search Without a Spatial Database
Introduction Couchbase Full Text Search (FTS) is a great tool for indexing and querying geospatial data. In this article, I’ll present a geospatial search use case and demonstrate the various ways that we can perform a search of location data...
Brian Kane, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
October 30, 2020
Full-Text Search – 5 Tips To Improve Your Query Performance
Tuning the search query performance is a very important aspect of Full-Text Search as it helps business-critical applications in meeting the SLA requirements of latency and throughput. Without much preamble, let me share a few useful recommendations for troubleshooting your...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran
October 2, 2020
How to Make Geospatial Polygon-Based Search on Couchbase
Geospatial features have proven over the years to significantly increase user engagement. In fact, we got so used to it that now we even expect that any kind of recommendation (news, restaurants, products) should also be location-based. The majority of...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
September 1, 2020
Announcing Flex Index With Couchbase
Flex Index Explained What is a Flex Index? One of the key tasks of a database engine is how to efficiently manage the search and retrieval of the data therein. The efficiency and balance between resource consumption and performance are...
Binh Le
August 12, 2020
What’s New and Improved in Couchbase Server 6.6
Couchbase Server 6.6 is now generally available with exciting new enhancements that augment our Analytics, Query, Search, and Eventing Services as well as our backup, recovery and tooling capabilities. These enhancements improve developer productivity, simplify cloud deployments, and enable operational...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
August 12, 2020
Text Analysis within a Full-Text Search Engine
Full-Text Search refers to techniques for searching text content within a document or a collection of documents that hold textual content. A Full-Text search engine examines all the textual content within documents as it tries to match a single search...
Abhinav Dangeti, Software Engineer
August 10, 2020
Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance
Array is THE difference between the relational model and the JSON model. — Gerald Sangudi Abstract JSON array gives you flexibility in the type of elements, number of elements, size of the elements, and the depth of the elements. This...
Keshav Murthy
August 4, 2020