Tag: JSON
SQL to JSON Data Modeling with Hackolade
SQL to JSON data modeling is something I touched on in the first part of my “Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase” series. Since that blog post, some new tooling has come to my attention from Hackolade, which has recently...
N1QL: A Practical Guide
N1QL is designed to help developers easily develop applications to solve real-world problems. Technically, N1QL is designed to give developers and enterprises an expressive, powerful, and complete language for querying, transforming, and manipulating JSON data. N1QL takes inspiration from SQL...
Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 2: Data Migration
In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as compared to Couchbase Server. In three parts, I’m going to...
Couchbase and the Document-Oriented NoSQL Database
As a developer advocate at Couchbase, I often travel around and meet people who either have no idea what NoSQL is, or more importantly what Couchbase is. For the people who are already familiar with NoSQL, Couchbase often gets compared...
Analyze Donald Trump Tweets with Couchbase and N1QL
AWS Serverless Lambda Scheduled Events to Store Tweets in Couchbase explained how to store tweets in Couchbase using AWS Serverless Lambda. Now, this Lambda Function has been running for a few days and has collected 269 tweets from @realDonaldTrump. This blog ,...
New to NoSQL? Meet N1QL!
A few years ago NoSQL might have sounded like a alien monster, but given the advances in the technology and how modern web and mobile applications are storing and accessing data, it is and has become a critical part of...
Using Jil for custom JSON Serialization in the Couchbase .NET SDK
One of the new features introduced in 2.1.0 of the Couchbase .NET SDK was support for overriding the default serializer with your own custom serializer by extending the ITypeSerializer interface and providing your own or favorite serializer. In this article...
Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
I’m busy working on some SQL Server to Couchbase Server blog posts, but in the meantime, I’d thought I’d leave you a little chestnut of JSON goodness for the Christmas weekend. Wikibase has a huge database of information. All kinds...
Moving from MongoDB to Couchbase server (revisited)
Note: this blog post is a revist of Matthew Revell’s Moving from MongoDB to Couchbase Server This is a developer-focused guide to moving your application’s data store from MongoDB to Couchbase Server. If you’re interested in migrating from a relational...
Getting Started with Golang and Couchbase
Are you a Go programmer that is new to Couchbase or even NoSQL in general? In this quickstart video tutorial you’ll learn some basics on how to get started with Couchbase, explore some complex data models, and see the various...
Using Couchbase to Store Non-JSON Data
I believe most of the power of Couchbase Server comes when you use it as a document database to store JSON documents. You get to use N1QL, for instance! However, there are some times when you need Couchbase to store...
Chicago User Group Visits – September 2016 (Videos)
I spent nearly a week in Chicago, visiting three user groups, appearing on a video podcast, and talking to everyone who would listen about Couchbase. Something happened at the Chicago .NET Developers Downtown user group that I have never seen...