Couchbase Server | Document Database
Couchbase Server: NoSQL database – develop with agility, operate at any scale
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Power of SQL
Leverage your knowledge of SQL to easily create powerful queries with N1QL: SQL for JSON.
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Flexibility of JSON
Build applications faster and easier with a flexible data model that enables iterative development.
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Scalability of NoSQL
Scale easily, from a few nodes to hundreds, as your performance and availability needs grow.
What is Couchbase Server?
Couchbase Server is a NoSQL database, which has become the de facto standard for building Systems of Engagement. It is designed with a distributed architecture for performance, scalability, and availability. It enables developers to build applications easier and faster by leveraging the power of SQL with the flexibility of JSON.
Deploy Couchbase Server as a:
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Document database
Access, index, and query documents while taking advantage of integrated caching for high-performance data access.
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Key-value store
Meet high-performance requirements for read and write data access while maintaining durability and availability.
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Distributed cache
Provide scalable, low-latency access to large in-memory data sets, optionally via the memcache API and clients.
Features
Develop with Agility
Easier, faster development
Iterate faster by leveraging a flexible data model and a powerful query language to write less code, avoid database changes.
Flexible data modeling
Add features by extending the data model to nest or reference data, or by adding new indexes and queries on the same data.
Powerful querying & indexing
Perform complex queries, with or without joins, and benefit from a built-in query editor and schema browser – no code required.
SQL integration & migration
Migrate relational data and queries as is, continue to leverage enterprise BI and reporting tools with full support for SQL.
Big data integration
Integrate with Spark, Kafka, and Hadoop to enrich, distribute, and analyze operational data streams in real time.
Mobile / IoT extensions
Simplify mobile development by leveraging a cross-platform, embedded database with automatic synchronization to the cloud.
Operate at Any Scale
Elastic scalability
Scale easily, efficiently and reliably, from a few nodes to many, one data center to multiple, all with "push button" simplicity.
Consistent high performance
Build responsive applications and support millions of concurrent users by leveraging memory and asynchronous operations.
Always-on availability
Maintain 24x365 uptime by enabling replication and automatic failover, and performing maintenance operations online.
Multi-data center deployment
Operate in multiple geographies to improve performance and availability by enabling cross datacenter replication (XDCR).
Simple & powerful administration
Deploy, manage, and monitor deployments with an integrated admin UI and automated tasks optimized for large deployments.
Enterprise-grade security
Deploy in secure environments by enabling built-in auditing, role-based access control, and encrypted communications.
Transition with Ease
The most innovative enterprises are introducing NoSQL to replace or augment legacy databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. With Couchbase Server, they get the best of both worlds – the powerful querying and enterprise features of a relational database, combined with the scalability, performance, and flexibility of a NoSQL database.
To make the transition easier, Couchbase Server provides many of the same features found in relational databases.
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SQL |
Express complex queries with N1QL, a declarative query language based on SQL. |
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JOINs |
Perform left outer and inner joins with N1QL to support relationships. |
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Schema Browsing |
Explore the data model with automatically inferred schemas and sample data. |
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Query Editing |
Create and run queries using a built-in editor with autocomplete and syntax highlighting. |
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Comprehensive Indexing |
Create compound, partial, functional, and covering indexes to improve query performance. |
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Strong Consistency |
Specify read-your-own-writes (RYOW) consistency for queries that require stronger consistency. |
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Advanced Security |
Configure encryption, auditing, role-based access control, and LDAP for secure environments. |
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Disaster Recovery |
Leverage backup/restore tools and built-in cross datacenter replication (XDCR) for disaster recovery. |
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Monitoring |
Actively monitor database state and operations with a complete, integrated admin console. |
Use Cases
Real-time big data
Leverage streaming integration with Hadoop and Storm to support and enable real-time analytics.
Mobile applications
Build mobile apps with offline support via an embedded database and automatic synchronization.
Profile management
Maintain user profiles to support authentication, preferences, and more over multiple channels.
Content management
Manage a variety of static and dynamic content without the limitations of a fixed data model.
Customer 360° view
Aggregate customer information from disparate sources with different schemas within a single database.
Internet of Everything
Collect high volume, high velocity sensor and telemetry data from industrial and consumer devices.
Fraud detection
Enable real-time transaction profiling with low latency access to accounts and fraud detection rules.
Catalogs
Engage customers by providing low latency access to product or service catalogs, online or in-store.
Personalization
Ingest clickstream data at high throughput to create and refine millions of visitor profiles.
Digital communication
Support real-time interaction and communication with low latency read/write access to messages.
Customers
Providing a better user experience on eBay
eBay selected Couchbase Server to improve the user experience across multiple channels, including web and mobile, with the goal of supporting over 2 billion reads per day.
Couchbase Server provides low-latency read access to item, buyer, and seller data via two clusters deployed in two data centers. Low-latency reads and writes of authentication tokens are also enabled, with clusters in three data centers. Watch eBay present at Couchbase Connect.
Database metrics:
Improving services with scalable, high performance caching
LinkedIn chose Couchbase Server to replace its memcached infrastructure. It powers 10 services via 60 single- and multi-tenant clusters deployed to multiple data centers, with up to 100 nodes per cluster.
The site reliability engineering team loads 16 million entries into a 4-node cluster every five minutes to power their in-house monitoring user interface, InGraphs. This cluster sustains 400K operations per second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Watch LinkedIn present at Couchbase Connect.
Database metrics:
Crunching big data to deliver answers on demand
Nielsen chose Couchbase Server to power its “Answers on Demand” big data analytics application, providing customers like P&G, Walmart, and Tesco with ad hoc, near real-time reports on consumer purchase behavior and product sales trends.
Ingesting billions of data points from retail point-of-sales to household panels to loyalty card swipes, Couchbase Server provides a consolidated caching and storage solution, delivering the speed and flexibility Nielsen requires. Watch Nielsen present at Couchbase Live.
Database metrics:
Accessing and analyzing cookie data in real-time
PayPal deployed Couchbase Server in order to migrate billions of client-side cookies to a server-side database. To maintain 99.99% availability with three data centers, there are two active, bidirectional clusters and a passive, unidirectional cluster.
To analyze the cookie data, PayPal created a publisher using the TAP protocol to stream cookies written to Couchbase Server to Kafka as messages. The cookie data is written to Hadoop with LinkedIn’s Camus. Watch PayPal present at Couchbase Connect.
Database metrics:
Powering Facebook’s game of the year, Cookie Jam
SGN powers all of their mobile games from Panda Pop to The Book of Life: Sugar Smash to Cookie Jam with Couchbase Server. It provides read and write access to all player and game data from game progress to purchases like “power ups”.
In addition, successful mobile games require an elastic infrastructure. There were 1.2 million Cookie Jam installs within a month, 35 million with 10 months. SGN added a new node every two months to support this exponential growth. Read the blog.
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Get Started
Download Couchbase Server 4.6 on the getting started page and read the developer guide.