Tag: JSON
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”...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases
Bruce Lindsay once said, “There are three things important in the database world: Performance, Performance, and Performance”. Most enterprise architects know, as we progress in database features and architectures, it’s important to measure performance in an open way so they can compare...
TPCx-IoT benchmark with Cisco & Couchbase.
The Internet of Things (IoT) application brings a new dimension to the database workload. What makes IoT click is the availability of data from the edge devices at the gateways, servers for instant analysis, rollups, etc. Data generated is heterogeneous...
Using JWT for Authorization With GraphQL, Go, and Couchbase
Over the past few months I’ve been writing a GraphQL series using the Go programming language. First we saw how to get started with GraphQL and Go, followed by an alternative way to handle data relationships by using resolvers on...
JWT Authentication with GraphQL, Node.js & Couchbase NoSQL
A few months ago when I had first started learning about GraphQL, I had written a previous tutorial for using it with Couchbase and Node.js. The tutorial focused on the basics which included creating GraphQL objects and querying those objects...
A Guide to N1QL features in Couchbase 5.5: Special Edition
N1QL was first released with Couchbase 4.0 in the fall of 2015. After two and a half years, it’s great to release Couchbase 5.5 and this N1QL 5.5 feature booklet with it at the New York Couchbase Connect. This special...
Build a Swift App Using Couchbase Lite as an Embedded NoSQL Database
Couchbase Mobile 2.0 brings the power of NoSQL JSON Document Store to iOS, Android and .Net Mobile Platforms. With Couchbase Mobile, you can build mobile applications with offline-only and offline-first capabilities. Couchbase Mobile supports flexible deployment options. You can deploy...