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The Big Data / Fast Data Gap
The Big Data / Fast Data Gap

Big Data Apache Hadoop the big data platform. It was designed to derive value from volume. It can store and process a lot of data at rest, big data. It was designed for analytics. It was not designed for velocity....

NoSQL and the Hybrid Cloud
NoSQL and the Hybrid Cloud

If a NoSQL database can be deployed on-premise or it can be deployed in the cloud, why can’t it be deployed on-premise and in the cloud? It can, and it should. This article highlights a variety of hybrid cloud use...

Announcing newer version of Couchbase Plug-in for Elasticsearch
Announcing newer version of Couchbase Plug-in for Elasticsearch

Check out the update to our Couchbase Plug-in for ElasticSearch to work with latest release of Couchbase Server 2.5.1 and Elasticsearch 1.0.1.

consistent: to be, or not to be
consistent: to be, or not to be

That’s the question. This is from a client’s point of view absent a partition and / or failover. MongoDB Is data in MongoDB consistent? MongoDB executes read and write operations on the primary node, and data is consistent. However, performance...

Internet of Things (IoT), it’s not Big Data
Internet of Things (IoT), it’s not Big Data

That's right. The Internet of Things is not big data. It's continuous data. If big data is an ocean, continuous data is a tributary. And… A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Wikipedia Nor does data...

The Internet of Everything, the Pinnacle of Convergence?
The Internet of Everything, the Pinnacle of Convergence?

Is the Internet of Everything the pinnacle of convergence? Yes. Yes it is. It’s where mobile, IoT / M2M, cloud and big data converge. Where? The smart refrigerator. Again (link). IoT / M2M The smart refrigerator generates data. It generates...

Discussion: How to Evaluate NoSQL Databases
Discussion: How to Evaluate NoSQL Databases

I’m hosting a webinar with William McKnight, founder of McKnight Consulting Group and analyst for Gigaom Research, and Anil Madan, Senior Director of Engineering at PayPal. William will be discussing his new white paper, NoSQL Evaluator’s Guide. Anil will be...

Couchbase Blueprints in Apache Brooklyn
Couchbase Blueprints in Apache Brooklyn

This is a guest post by our friends at Cloudsoft (link) on the Apache Brooklyn project (link). We’re excited to be collaborating with Cloudsoft. The cloud is the new operating system, and projects like Apache Brooklyn enable the enterprise to...

Indexes and Selectivity
Indexes and Selectivity

Indexes in Couchbase Indexes in Couchbase are a flexible means of performing back end processing.   When utilizing indexes it's possible to create decision tree type aggregations and selectivity functionality, such as those found in an inventory control system.  ...

Couchbase Weekly: 2014-07-11
Couchbase Weekly: 2014-07-11

Here's what's been happening in Couchbase this week! Couchbase HangoutMatthew, Phil and Michael held a hangout introducing the 2.0 SDKs, focusing on the Java and NodeJS SDKs. Go watch the video. Full Stack JSON with NodeJS and CouchbasePhil spoke at...

DevOps Webinar: Provisioning NoSQL to Cloud Infrastructure with Apache Brooklyn
DevOps Webinar: Provisioning NoSQL to Cloud Infrastructure with Apache Brooklyn

Alex Heneveld, CTO Cloudsoft, will be introduce Apache Brooklyn (link) and demonstrate how to deploy Couchbase Server to Amazon Web Services with Cloudsoft Application Management Platform (AMP), a commerically supported distribution of Apache Brooklyn. What is Apache Brooklyn? Brooklyn is...

Announcing the release of Couchbase Server 3.0
Announcing the release of Couchbase Server 3.0

Couchbase Server 3.0 is here!!! I am thrilled to announce the availability of this major release. Couchbase Server 3.0 is a monumental release in the company’s history. With this release we have further strengthened our core architecture, which is amplified...