Tag: performance
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...
Couchbase Server 5.5 Released
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Couchbase Server 5.5 production release is now available! We are very excited to share more information about this substantial extension of the Couchbase Data Platform. This release introduces several new Enterprise Grade features relating to agility,...
How to Join JSON: Couchbase N1QL vs. MongoDB Query
As NoSQL databases evolved, each added higher level APIs or languages to help programmers to complex things easily. SQL, having done that for relational data, showed the way. In SQL, developers say WHAT needs to be done and the database...
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...
Divide and Conquer: Couchbase GSI Index partitioning.
In Couchbase, data is always partitioned using the consistent hash value of the document key into vbukets which are stored on the data nodes. Couchbase Global Secondary Index (GSI) abstracts the indexing operations and runs as a distinct service within...
Building an Observation Deck
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. – Leslie Lamport, 1987 While those prescient words were uttered in 1987, it remains the case in...
Understanding Index Grouping And Aggregation in Couchbase N1QL Query
Couchbase N1QL is a modern query processing engine designed to provide aggregate SQL for JSON by index on distributed data with a flexible data model. Modern databases are deployed on massive clusters. Using JSON provides a flexible data mode. N1QL...
Develop with Agility, Develop at any Scale with Couchbase on Cisco UCS
Author’s note: This excerpt from the Couchbase on Cisco UCS® solution brief is published on behalf of Cisco. Full solution brief for Couchbase on Cisco UCS® is available later in this blog. As the world migrates to a digital economy, businesses are...
Database Pagination: Using OFFSET and Keyset in N1QL
Read the pagination background in my previous article: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/optimizing-database-pagination-using-couchbase-n1ql/ Pagination is the task of dividing the potential result into pages and retrieving the required pages, one by one on demand. Using OFFSET and LIMIT is the easy way to write...
Comparing Couchbase Views with Couchbase N1QL & Indexing.
As Couchbase data platform evolved, services like N1QL and GSI Indexing handled the use cases Couchbase VIEWS used to handle and much more. It’s logical to ask the comparative question between them. Here is a table comparing both. This is...
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...
Tooling Improvements in Couchbase Server 5.0 (Update)
Tooling improvements have come to Couchbase Server 5.0. Note: this is an updated repost of Tooling Improvements in Couchbase 5.0 Beta. In this blog post, I’m going to show you some of the tooling improvements in: Query plan visualization –...