Tag: High Availability
Consistency Models & Performance: Couchbase vs. CockroachDB
Design decisions influenced by CAP Theorem The CAP theorem states that a database cannot simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees: Consistency (the latest information is always available everywhere) Availability (every read and write request receives a response) Partitioning...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing
April 18, 2023
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies
In this post, we review some important considerations for planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Business continuity needs careful consideration when using Couchbase as a core business service. Today’s focus is on the application layer and the...
Steve Grimwood, Solutions Engineer
January 16, 2023
Powering the Gaming Industry’s Most Popular Titles with Couchbase
The gaming market is bigger than ever and growing. According to BusinessOfApps, over 55 billion games were downloaded in 2021 between Google Play and the Apple App Store alone, and in a recent blog on mobile gaming industry statistics, mobile...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
September 29, 2022
Always-Available Real-Time Data With High Availability In Couchbase Analytics
As part of the Couchbase Server 7.1 release, Couchbase Analytics Service is very excited to announce the support of High Availability capability availability to ensure users can access data within Analytics Service collections/datasets when one or more Analytics nodes is...
Combine Clusters to Achieve High Availability
Whether on-premises or on the public cloud, Couchbase customers have a distinct set of needs: ACID transactions, high durable writes, high availability and high performance. Couchbase’s architecture helps meet these needs while also reducing pain for DevOps and DBAs (perhaps...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
April 6, 2022
An Introduction to Edge Computing Architectures
If I asked five different people what “edge computing” is, I’d most certainly get five different answers. Confusingly, they’d probably all be right. Edge computing is a strategic architecture that’s growing in popularity, but its different permutations and its myriad...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
October 9, 2021
Introducing XDCR Support for Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0
Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is a database essential. XDCR ensures database High Availability (HA), disaster recovery, and geo-locality. With the Couchbase Server 7.0 release, XDCR also supports new individual namespaces called Scopes and Collections within each database Bucket. Support...
Neil Huang, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
August 18, 2021
Couchbase Mobile Offers Embedded Java Write Throughput and More
Couchbase Mobile extends the power of Couchbase to the edge, securely managing and syncing data from any cloud to edge devices or directly between edge devices. In this post, I discuss the main features in the Couchbase Lite and Sync...
Priya Rajagopal, Director, Product Management
June 28, 2021
Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR
XDCR, by design, provides customers the flexibility to tune the number of replications for a given bucket depending on the desired performance. New replication requires streaming all existing documents in the bucket, and, therefore, it exhibits a higher mutation rate...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
August 9, 2019
Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5
Customers use XDCR for various use cases from high availability to data locality to disaster recovery to cloud migration and hybrid cloud deployments. To meet these use cases, there are a number of circumstances where they would want to replicate...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
August 9, 2019
Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications
Today’s businesses compete in a digital economy where downtime can be deadly. But keeping data highly available is never as simple as backing up one database to be an up-to-the-second copy of another. Instead, modern databases have to function in...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
March 4, 2019
Understanding Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) – Part 1
If you have any familiarity with Couchbase, you definitely know XDCR. If you use Couchbase for any of your applications, you are very likely using XDCR. I wouldn’t be wrong if I said, XDCR is indeed one of our customers’...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
December 1, 2018