Tag: Compaction
Managing Database Sizes in Couchbase Mobile and Conflict Resolution
Couchbase Mobile uses a Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) technique for handling conflicts. One of the challenges in a MVCC based system is that over time, a document can grow to have multiple revisions. One can conclude that if all...
Priya Rajagopal, Director, Product Management
June 6, 2017
Compaction magic in Couchbase Server 2.0
With Couchbase’s append-only storage design, it’s impossible to corrupt data and index files as updates go only to the end of the file. There are no in-place file updates and the files are never in an inconsistent state. But writing...
The Couchbase Team
December 16, 2014