What's a death spiral? Single-node death spirals A former employer of mine was contracted to build an email routing system for one of the world's largest companies. They had me do the design and spec out the hardware, and then...
Happy Monday to all you Couchbase readers out there! For those of you that don’t know, every week I dedicate a full blog page to happenings in the Couchbase sphere. Blogs, events, announcements and the like are posted here as...
April 14: The Week in Couchbase NoSQL Hello all, here is the new week in review for Couchbase Community events and other happenings in case you missed it when it happened! Check back in every week for the latest blogs...
Happy April Fools from Couchbase! Though today’s blogpost is no joke. We’ve been amping it up and have lots to share with you all including the Couchbase Server 2.5.1 and 3rd Developer Preview of N1QL! RELEASES: Couchbase Server 2.5.1 Thanks to...
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...
This Couchbase blog includes 5 best practices in Memcached Security, including firewall tips, binding checks, SASL usage, and whether to Run as Root.
That’s right. A modern big data solution requires more than Hadoop. Welcome to the data, it’s all big and fast. Welcome to Big Data Central Discuss on Hacker News Discuss on Reddit I’m excited to announce that Big Data Central...
See how Couchbase Server leverages memory effectively with a integrated, managed object cache unlike Cassandra and MongoDB.
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...
c = Couchbase.new(“https://localhost:8091/pools/default/buckets/my-bucket”) I believe it’s safe to say we are mostly all familiar with the above Ruby code. It establishes a connection from the Ruby SDK to a bucket of our choosing inside our Couchbase cluster. There are, of...
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...
The .NET Client Library provides detailed error information by way of its IOperationResult interface. To find out why a store operation failed, use ExecuteStore instead of Store. var result = client.ExecuteStore(StoreMode.Add, “key”, “value”); if (! result.Success) { Console.WriteLine(“Operation failed with...