Cbimport missing from Community Edition

Couchbase Server
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cbimport is currently only an EE feature. It will be made available to CE by end of Q2 of 2019. This is the related ticket : MB-28173.

22

2019 or 2018? I’ve never seen a product plan that went out a year and a half! That’s pretty good planning if so.

23

Yes, it will be available the Summer of 2019.

25

I am using Couchbase CE 6.0. cbimport utility is still missing.

26

So much for planning a year and a half in advance!

27

Will it be ever shipped?

28

cbimport and cbexport will be included in Couchbase Server 6.5.0 community edition, which will be available later in the year.

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If it helps anyone still facing the same problem, a workaround to this would be to use cbdocloader. Assuming all documents are stored in a single file, where each document is separated by an end of line, the way I import these documents is by first creating individual files of each one, creating the directory structure mentioned in cbdocloader’s documentation, and then using cbdocloader. An example in bash:

WDIR="/some/working/directory"
BUCKET="BUCKET_NAME"
DATAFILE="/path/to/file/containing/documents"
CBBIN="/opt/couchbase/bin"

mkdir -p $WDIR/{design_docs,docs}
cat <<-EOF>>$WDIR/design_docs/indexes.json
                {
                 "statements": [        
                    {          
                         "statement": "CREATE PRIMARY INDEX on $BUCKET",
                              "args": null
                    }
                     ]
                }
                EOF
cd $WDIR/docs
awk -F'[:,]' '{printf "%s\n", $0>$2".json"; close($2".json")}' $DATAFILE
cd $WDIR
$CBBIN/cbdocloader -c ... -u ... -p  ... -b $BUCKET -d $WDIR -t ...  -m ...

Be aware that when the number of documents is big, depending on your filesystem and operating system, creating a lot of files (as shown on the bash example) and importing them will take a lot of time, not to mention disk space.

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Couchbase Server 6.5.0 community edition has been released and it contains cbimport and cbexport.

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