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The Database Cage Match: Redux
The Database Cage Match: Redux

Within every market, a leader emerges. In the 90s, the database market was represented by fierce competition between Sybase, Informix and Oracle. Oracle emerged as the leader. It was a well engineered database, a high performance database, and a general...

Cross Data Center Replication – A step-by-step guide for Amazon AWS
Cross Data Center Replication – A step-by-step guide for Amazon AWS

One of the most exciting new features of Couchbase Server 2.0 is the addition of Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR). Using this feature you can increase the reliability of your application by operating in multiple data-centers and improve performance for...

Creating a content store with Couchbase – The Learning Portal
Creating a content store with Couchbase – The Learning Portal

Two weeks ago McGraw Hill presented at CouchConf SF and our users expressed so much interest that I thought I’d share more details in a blog. Earlier this year McGraw Hill and Couchbase teamed up to build a proof-of-concept application...

Create a Couchbase Cluster with Ansible
Create a Couchbase Cluster with Ansible

[This blog was syndicated from https://blog.grallandco.com]   Introduction   When I was looking for a more effective way to create my cluster I asked some sysadmins which tools I should use to do it. The answer I got during OSDC...

CouchTalk Calling
CouchTalk Calling

tldr; The storage part of CouchTalk is easy, just jpeg and wav resources keyed by id. What’s interesting is the application model that assumes sequential keys, allowing the front end to index into the data without issuing any queries. To...

CouchOne + Membase = Couchbase
CouchOne + Membase = Couchbase

Hi, this is Damien Katz, CEO at CouchOne. I’ve got some news I’m extremely excited to finally announce: a merger between CouchOne and Membase! A little background: I met James Phillips, the co-founder of Membase, for the first time in...

The Couchbase Workload Generator
The Couchbase Workload Generator

As a developer, if you’ve installed Couchbase Server 2.0 and seen its new features, you might want to hit the server with some load to do some basic testing of your Couchbase cluster. I’ve personally had a number of reasons...

Welcome to NoSQL, Oracle – we’ve been expecting you.
Welcome to NoSQL, Oracle – we’ve been expecting you.

Oracle’s entry into the NoSQL market, announced yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, isn’t at all surprising to anyone who believes, like we do, that NoSQL is destined to be a disruptive force in the database market and eventually make up a significant percentage...

Couchbase Weekly: 2014-08-18
Couchbase Weekly: 2014-08-18

So here is what has been happening in Couchbase recently Couchbase 3.0 Office Hours Matt, Don, Michael and Annie did a great hangout focusing on 3.0, which is out in beta right now and answered questions along the way. require('lx')...

Couchbase Tools shipped with the Couchbase C Client Library (libcouchbase)
Couchbase Tools shipped with the Couchbase C Client Library (libcouchbase)

In this blog post, I will reveal some the less known features of the libcouchbase client library. It describes the libcouchbase tools which are collectively under cbc, the command originally written by Trond Norbye. You probably won’t use them for writing...

The Couchbase Server Recorder
The Couchbase Server Recorder

Aircraft flight recorders help in investigating an aircraft accident or incident. Similarly, for databases, if a server suddenly fails abnormally or if you are just troubleshooting the system, error logs can really be handy. Error logs are a gold mine...

Couchbase Rolling Upgrades
Couchbase Rolling Upgrades

One of the capabilities of Couchbase Server is the ability to do online upgrades without downtime. This is in part due to Couchbase’s auto-sharding and rebalancing features. In this blog post we will walk through the recommended approaches of doing...