Tag: NoSQL Database
N1QL: A Practical Guide. Second Edition
Two years and two weeks ago, on a crisp fall day at Wall Street in New York, we launched N1QL in Couchbase 4.0. Even before the launch, we had customers using pre-release N1QL because it solved the critical business problem:...
Learn N1QL in 10 Minutes: An Interactive Online Tutorial
N1QL is SQL for JSON. The goal of N1QL is to give developers and enterprises an expressive, powerful, and complete language for querying, transforming, and manipulating JSON data. The goal of N1QL is to give developers and enterprises an expressive,...
Developing a User Profile Store with Golang and a NoSQL Database
Remember the tutorial series I wrote in regards to creating a user profile store with Node.js and NoSQL? That tutorial covered a lot of ground, from creating a RESTful API with Node.js, handling user sessions, data modeling, and of course...
Create a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database
There are many use-cases for NoSQL databases, one that I encounter frequently is creating a user profile store and session. This use-case lends itself to a NoSQL database. Profiles often need to be flexible and accept data changes. While possible...
Couchbase Meetup Project on the OCEAN Stack Available
I was recently at two different Meetup groups in Southern California presenting on what I’m calling, the OCEAN stack, which is composed of Ottoman.js, Couchbase Server, Express Framework, Angular, and Node.js. We had a great turnout of developers hungry to...
Bringing SQL to NoSQL – Rich, Declarative Querying for JSON
Couchbase Server is a document-oriented NoSQL database. Most NoSQL systems force you to sacrifice the rich querying capabilities of SQL in trade for the other benefits they offer. At Couchbase, we’ve developed the N1QL query language to solve this problem....
Getting Started with NoSQL Using Couchbase Server and PHP
A few days ago I wrote about using PHP with Docker and Couchbase, but I never really got into best practices of going all in with PHP and NoSQL databases. For example, how do you read and write data with...
Simplify Your NoSQL Cluster by Moving From MongoDB Sharding to Couchbase Containers
When I’m out at events and talking to NoSQL users and advocates, I often hear stories on why people have decided to start using Couchbase after having come from MongoDB. Take, for example, an interview I did with Tom Coates...
Demystifying Conflict Resolution in Couchbase Mobile
Conflicts can occur in replication environments where a document can be updated concurrently by one or more writers. This is especially common in mobile environments wherein unreliable network connections may result in concurrent changes from multiple devices not being synchronized in...
Engaging for growth: Introducing the industry’s first Engagement Database
Today at Couchbase, we tread a new path by carving out a new category of database: the Engagement Database. What is an Engagement Database, you ask me – a guy steeped in the technology side of the business? It’s something...
Data Modeling NoSQL Documents in MongoDB vs Couchbase Server
When I’m out at events, I get a lot of questions regarding the differences between MongoDB and Couchbase Server as they are both in the NoSQL space and are both document databases. One particular question is related to data modeling....
Deploying a Containerized Couchbase NoSQL Database Cluster with Docker – Video Tutorial
Docker is all the rage lately so I’ve decided to hop on this train and whip together some content regarding the containerization of Couchbase. I’ve seen a few tutorials that demonstrate the use of Couchbase with Docker, but I’ve decided...