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Memcached, go-derper, Black Hat and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Bulletin
Memcached, go-derper, Black Hat and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Bulletin

If you are a user of memcached and have deployed instances on Amazon EC2, you may have received a message from Amazon over the weekend (we received one on 8/7/2010) indicating you may have a “Possible Insecure Memcached Configuration.” Here’s the...

Memcached Security Best Practices
Memcached Security Best Practices

This Couchbase blog includes 5 best practices in Memcached Security, including firewall tips, binding checks, SASL usage, and whether to Run as Root.

MongoDB and Scale Out? No, says MongoHQ
MongoDB and Scale Out? No, says MongoHQ

While MongoHQ would prefer to scale out, the platform was not engineered for it. The Couchbase Server, on the other hand, was engineered to scale out.

MongoDB + Big Data, Almost There
MongoDB + Big Data, Almost There

When it comes to big data, MongoDB is almost there. It’s a start, and that’s a good thing. Discuss on Hacker News Discuss on Reddit Background I joined Couchbase in December of 2013. However, I’ve been passionate about big data...

More memcached
More memcached

Our intrepid NorthScalers have been doing some interesting work recently in memcached land… Last week, Dustin Sallings announced his memcached server implementation in Erlang, called EMemcached.  Besides being a cool project, there's a surprising amount of interest in the mixture...

Moving No Schema up the Stack with C# and Dynamic Types
Moving No Schema up the Stack with C# and Dynamic Types

One of the significant benefits of working with Couchbase Server 2.0 is its flexible schema.  Documents are stored as JSON, allowing for implicitly structured records that impose no order on each other.  In the real world, that “implicit structure” comes...

MrRoboto: The memcached AMI story
MrRoboto: The memcached AMI story

Not so long ago, we went to lunch at a Sushi joint on Castro street in Mountain View across from NorthScale’s modest HQ.  On the way over we were talking about Japanese robatayaki and Dave told a story about an...

My Notes on the NoSQL Smashup
My Notes on the NoSQL Smashup

As with many developers, I love to tinker with new technologies.  Much like Dustin, I’d long admired CouchDB for it’s novel approach, the fact that it matches the way we think about data and its simplicity.  It was hard to...

From MySQL to Couchbase using Talend ETL
From MySQL to Couchbase using Talend ETL

Couchbase offers an unique NoSQL database combining integrated cache and storage technology. NoSQL is gaining strong popularity and a number of customers are looking to export or map some of the data they have in RDBMS to Couchbase NoSQL; this...

Need a cheat sheet? The Java SDK cheat sheet for Couchbase Server 1.8.1 has arrived !
Need a cheat sheet? The Java SDK cheat sheet for Couchbase Server 1.8.1 has arrived !

There are many occasions when I need to quickly refer to the programming APIs when I am trying something new. For my personal use, I created one handy Couchbase Server 1.8.1 Java Cheat Sheet, which I hang on my desk always....

Need database metrics? Using the Couchbase Admin Console
Need database metrics? Using the Couchbase Admin Console

No matter what we work on and what system we are operating, we always need to have the right set of tools to get the job done. Airplane pilots need to have the right set of visual metrics in the...

New Book: Getting Started with Couchbase Server
New Book: Getting Started with Couchbase Server

The first in a series of new books on Couchbase Server was released by O'Reilly at the beginning of the month.  >Getting Started with Couchbase Server combines a wealth of information about deployment and managing your existing Couchbase Server cluster...