Tag: High Availability

Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers

Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers

Faster scaling of database resources is essential for maintaining efficient and performant databases, especially with the increased pressure of data ingestion, growing query demands, and the need to handle failovers seamlessly. As application-driven query traffic is primarily handled by index...

Couchbase Capella Spring Release featuring Couchbase Server 7.2

Couchbase Capella Spring Release featuring Couchbase Server 7.2

To celebrate National Cloud Database Day, we are announcing the latest advancements of Couchbase Capella Spring 2023 release, and its imminent incorporation of Couchbase Server 7.2. These Capella advancements offer expanded use case support, programming environment integrations, scaling improvements, and...

Data Consistency Models & Performance: Couchbase vs. CockroachDB

Data 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...

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies

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...

Powering the Gaming Industry’s Most Popular Titles with Couchbase

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...

Always-Available Real-Time Data With High Availability In Couchbase Analytics

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

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...

An Introduction to Edge Computing Architectures

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...

Introducing XDCR Support for Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0

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...

Couchbase Mobile Offers Embedded Java Write Throughput and More

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...

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

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...

Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

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...