Tag: Cluster
Upgrade to Couchbase Capella from Community Edition Now
Couchbase is a NoSQL database platform that offers several editions and deployment options, including a free installation binary as well as a fully managed database as a service. This blog briefly compares our free Couchbase Community Edition to Couchbase Capella™...
Couchbase vs MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 4
Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It’s always good to get different perspectives, and so this blog series continues. I’ll be discussing NoSQL misconceptions, specifically when it comes to two of the top document database...
Health Checking a Couchbase Cluster
Most databases are configured and sized correctly based on the information available at the time of their initial launch, but they tend to become unhealthy or undersized due to organic growth of their datasets and/or changes in their workload profiles....
Simplified Couchbase Server Cluster Creation via Docker
It’s pretty straight-forward to run an instance of Couchbase Server in a Docker container. It takes a bit more work to set up and fully configure a cluster. In this post, I’m going to walk through a shell script I...
Scaling a Couchbase Cluster for Increasing and Decreasing Demand
When it comes to scaling a database, it is often a task that people want to avoid. For relational databases, which are often vertically sized databases, the administrators would have to take the database offline and add new hardware to...
Simplify Your NoSQL Cluster by Moving From MongoDB Sharding to Couchbase Containers
When I’m out at events and talking to NoSQL users and advocates, I often hear stories on why people have decided to start using Couchbase after having come from MongoDB. Take, for example, an interview I did with Tom Coates...
Create a Couchbase Server Cluster using Docker
Docker is all the rage at the moment because of how easy it makes deployment of microservices and other tasks. Did you know that you can use Docker to install and configure Couchbase? Check out the following video to see...
How Many Nodes? Part 2: Sizing a Couchbase Server 2.0 cluster
In the first part of this series, I gave an overview of the 5 factors that determine the sizing of your Couchbase cluster: RAM, disk (IO and size), CPU, network and data distribution. In this second part, I want to...
Create a Couchbase Cluster with Ansible
[This blog was syndicated from http://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...