Tag: nosql
Going Full Stack with Node.js, Vue.js, and Couchbase NoSQL
If you’ve been keeping up, I’m a huge advocate for Node.js development and the JavaScript development stack. Previously I had written about the Couchbase, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (CEAN) stack and modernized the backend API with Hapi.js, a popular alternative...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 12, 2017
Create the Right Index, Get the Right Performance.
Introduction There are three things important in database systems: performance, performance, performance. For NoSQL database systems, there are three important things: performance at scale, performance at scale, performance at scale. Understanding the index options, creating the right index, with the...
Keshav Murthy
November 12, 2017
Optimizing Database Pagination using Couchbase N1QL.
Background: How does Google do it? When you google something or anything, it gives you back top relevant results, tells you an approximate number of documents for your topic — all under a second. Here are some high-level pointers: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/algorithms/...
Keshav Murthy
November 2, 2017
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:...
Keshav Murthy
October 26, 2017
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,...
Keshav Murthy
September 7, 2017
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...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 29, 2017
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...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 31, 2017
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...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 20, 2017
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....
Hod Greeley, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
July 5, 2017
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...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
June 15, 2017
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...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
June 6, 2017
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...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
May 25, 2017