Tag: High Availability

Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications

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...

Understanding Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) – Part 1

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’...

Announcing General Availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.1

Announcing General Availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.1

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.1. This release follows on the heels of Couchbase Mobile 2.0 which was released earlier this year. Couchbase Mobile extends the Couchbase Data Platform to the edge, securely managing and...

Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Couchbase further improves high availability for mission-critical deployments and reduces operator intervention. Couchbase enhances the detection of common disk failures and automatically fails over the node with bad disks saving operators time and energy. It also handles multiple server failures...

Intro to Couchbase HA/DR: Java Multi-Cluster Aware Client

Intro to Couchbase HA/DR: Java Multi-Cluster Aware Client

In this post, I’m going to take a look at a sample application that uses the Couchbase Server Multi-Cluster Aware (MCA) Java client. This client goes hand-in-hand with Couchbase’s Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) capabilities. XDCR supports flexible replication of data...

Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are two of the driving reasons to move from a traditional RDBMS to a NoSQL-based system like Couchbase Server. In this webinar we went over the many features of Couchbase Server that address...