Tag: 5.5

Testing ANSI JOINs

Testing ANSI JOINs

Overview The main purpose of this article is to show how Couchbase ANSI JOINs are tested. In Couchbase version 5.5, you can now execute joins using the ANSI standard syntax. This addition to joins makes them much more flexible, but...

August 16, 2018
Eventing: Notification with Couchbase Functions

Eventing: Notification with Couchbase Functions

Important note: This blog post contains information about a developer preview CURL function in Eventing. The CURL function will be changing in Couchbase Server 6.5, please see Using cURL with the Eventing Service: Update for more details. Eventing is a...

August 6, 2018
Couchbase Server 5.5 Released

Couchbase Server 5.5 Released

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Couchbase Server 5.5 production release is now available! We are very excited to share more information about this substantial extension of the Couchbase Data Platform. This release introduces several new Enterprise Grade features relating to agility,...

July 23, 2018
Data Visualization with Couchbase and Knowi

Data Visualization with Couchbase and Knowi

Note: This post uses the the Couchbase Analytics Data Definition Language as of the version 5.5 preview release.  For updates and information on breaking changes in newer versions, please refer to Changes to the Couchbase Analytics Service. Data visualization and reporting...

June 13, 2018
Building an Observation Deck

Building an Observation Deck

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. – Leslie Lamport, 1987 While those prescient words were uttered in 1987, it remains the case in...

Response Time Observability with the Java SDK

Response Time Observability with the Java SDK

Previous blogs gave a better understanding on how our approach to Real Time Observability (RTO) in general helps troubleshooting distributed systems and why we chose OpenTracing as a foundation and public API. If you haven’t already, you can check out...

April 9, 2018
What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important

What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important

We have previously discussed why system observability is important in distributed systems and the challenges that it can help to overcome – if you missed it, you can see Matt Ingenthron’s introduction to the problem here. Next, we will discuss why...

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is hard to manage at scale, let...

April 4, 2018
Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Couchbase further improves high availability for mission-critical deployments and reduces operator intervention. Couchbase enhances the detection of common disk failures and automatically fails over the node with bad disks saving operators time and energy. It also handles multiple server failures...

IPv6 Galore With Couchbase

IPv6 Galore With Couchbase

Every single device on the internet, whether it be a laptop computer, cell phone, camera, or even your TV has an IP address. The total number of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is over 4 billion, which is far...

March 22, 2018
Index Partitioning in Couchbase Server 5.5

Index Partitioning in Couchbase Server 5.5

Index partitioning is a new feature available in Couchbase Server 5.5. Check out the Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build announcement and download the release for free right now. In this post, I’m going to cover: Why you might want to use index...

March 19, 2018
Auditing Couchbase N1QL Statements

Auditing Couchbase N1QL Statements

Couchbase Server 5.5 includes the ability to keep a record of all N1QL actions taken by users. This is part of Couchbase’s more general audit functionality, introduced in 5.0. Auditing is only available in Enterprise edition. Auditing lets the administrators...

March 19, 2018