Tag: couchbase
N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
Note: This recommendation note was written in collaboration with Till Westmann and Mike Carey, who lead the Couchbase analytics R&D. [Part 2 of this article by Even Pease is at: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/part-2-n1ql-to-query-or-to-analyze/] Couchbase’s Query and Analytics Services both support N1QL (SQL...
Keshav Murthy
January 24, 2019
Searching JSON: compare text search in Couchbase and MongoDB.
“Apps without search is like Google homepage without the search bar.” It’s hard to design an app without a good search. These days, it’s also hard to find a database without a built-in search. MySQL to NoSQL, Sybase to Couchbase,...
Keshav Murthy
December 21, 2018
JSON to Insights: Analyzing US healthcare Data.
“Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” This isn’t a dataset made with a bed of roses or manicured green grass. A bit more serious. Let’s see if we can quickly learn anything here. The dataset is the following. “name”...
Keshav Murthy
December 7, 2018
JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy
Co-author: Sitaram Vemulapalli, Principal Engineer, Couchbase R&D. “The answer my friend is hiding in JSON” – Bob Dylan There are a lot of public JSON datasets and then is awesome JSON datasets. Every company, including yours, has stored a lot of...
Keshav Murthy
December 1, 2018
Curated Couchbase Containers on AWS Marketplace for Containers
Couchbase has a strong and long lasting relationship with AWS going back to 2012. Today we are thrilled to announce that Couchbase and AWS are building upon that relationship with, Couchbase being a featured launch partner for the AWS Marketplace for...
Shomari Liburd
November 27, 2018
Connecting to Couchbase via ODBC
Couchbase Analytics Couchbase Data Platform now supports hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. Plus, our massively parallel processing (MPP) query engine lets users run ad-hoc analytical queries that deliver faster insights without impacting performance. Couchbase Analytics reduces the time to insight...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
November 27, 2018
On Par with Window Functions.
Use golf analogy when explaining to executives. Use a car analogy for all others. — Confucius. The purpose of window functions is to translate the business reporting requirements declaratively and effectively to SQL so query performance and developer/business-analyst efficiency improve...
Keshav Murthy
November 22, 2018
Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0
We’re happy to announce the release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 1.1.0. As many of you know, version 1.0 which got released on August 30th was the first NoSQL production-ready Kubernetes operator for open source Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Couchbase Autonomous...
Anil Kumar, Director Product Management, Couchbase Cloud-Native Database
November 15, 2018
It’s the Workload, Stupid!
As an application architect, eventually, you’d have to choose the database or database as a service (DBaaS) to power your newest application or a micro-service. Selecting one of the databases among relational databases was easier. The use cases were roughly...
Keshav Murthy
November 14, 2018
Announcing Couchbase Server 6.0 with Analytics
We are proud to announce that Couchbase Server 6.0 is now available, with the central theme of helping reduce the time to insight from enterprise applications. As part of this release, Couchbase Analytics service is now officially available. After two...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
October 31, 2018
Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions.
Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Updating data is usually not the end, but usually a progress of a...
Keshav Murthy
October 20, 2018
YCSB-JSON: Implementation for Couchbase and MongoDB
YCSB is a great benchmarking tool built to be easily extended by any driver which supports and implements basic operations like: insert, read, update, delete and scan. Plain synthetic data introduced by YCSB fits this paradigm perfectly. But when it comes...
Alex Gyryk
October 6, 2018