WHITEPAPERS

Couchbase vs. MongoDB

Couchbase Performs 4.5x Better than MongoDB with Wired Tiger

Accelerating Data-Driven Applications with Couchbase and Spark

Apache Spark is the leading in-memory analytics processing engine. Couchbase Server is the leading memory-first architectured NoSQL database. Combining these two best-of-breed technologies enables your business to execute real-time analytics for instantly actionable operational insights. 

Read this white paper to find out:

• How Couchbase provides Spark users with the lowest latency, highest throughput, most reliable NoSQL data source and target 
• How Spark enables Couchbase users with rich, scalable analytics for their operational applications
• How to move data between Couchbase and Spark using RDDs, DataFrames, Datasets, and DStreams

Couchbase vs. Cassandra

Couchbase Delivers 6x Better Price / Performance than Cassandra

Moving from Relational to NoSQL

Why use NoSQL? Innovative companies like AT&T, GE, and PayPal have successfully transitioned from relational to NoSQL for their critical web, mobile, and IoT applications. By understanding where to introduce NoSQL, how to model and access the data, and how to manage and monitor a distributed database, you can do the same. This white paper explains the need for non-relational databases, describes advantages of NoSQL, and clarifies the important difference between SQL and NoSQL databases.

How to Choose a Database for Your Mobile Apps

Today’s consumers rely on their mobile apps no matter where they are. If your apps are sluggish and slow or don’t work at all when there’s no internet connection, your customers will start looking for other apps that work all the time. To help you provide the always-on experience customers demand, database solutions like Couchbase Mobile have added synchronization and offline capabilities to their mobile database offerings.

This white paper helps you choose the best mobile database for your needs based on 6 key evaluation questions:

• Does it have support for the right platforms?
• Is data secure at rest and in motion?
• Do you have a flexible data model?
• How does your database handle pesky conflicts?
• Does your database sync at the right times?
• Does your database sync using the right topology?

We also help you answer one last critical question: Should you build or should you buy? Get your white paper now for the answers you need.

High Performance with Distributed Caching

Today’s web, mobile, and IoT applications need to operate at increasingly demanding scale and performance levels to handle: Thousands to millions of users. Terabytes or petabytes of data. Submillisecond response times. Multiple device types. Global reach. Caching frequently used data in memory can dramatically improve application response times, typically by orders of magnitude. Get your “High-Performance Distributed Caching” guide to learn more. 

Couchbase Server 5.0: What's new

The Couchbase Data Platform delivers unparalleled performance at scale, while also providing the unmatched agility and manageability that today’s businesses require to continually reinvent their customer experiences and maintain their all-important competitive edge. Couchbase Server 5.0 is the latest release of the most powerful NoSQL technology.

Couchbase Server: An Architectural Overview

Couchbase Server is a scale-out NoSQL database with an architecture designed to simplify building modern applications with a flexible data model, powerful SQL-based query language, and a secure core database platform that provides high availability, scalability, and performance.

In this paper, we explore the overall system architecture, the service each component provides, and the business requirements it addresses.

Read this white paper to learn:

• The different components of a Couchbase Server deployment
• How data are organized and structured in Couchbase Server
• How read and write operations are handled across the cluster
• How the different Couchbase Server components communicate with each other
• The security features of the Couchbase Server

Top 10 Enterprise NoSQL Use Cases

Enterprises are rapidly adopting NoSQL technology to power web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications at scale. But exactly how are they using NoSQL? What are some of the most common use cases? And what are the specific benefits from deploying NoSQL for those applications?   

NoSQL Tech Comparison Report

In this report, Altoros compares the architecture of three leading NoSQL databases: MongoDB, DataStax Enterprise, and Couchbase Server.

2014 NoSQL Benchmark Showdown

How does Couchbase compare to DataStax and MongoDB when it comes to operations per second? See Thumbtack Inc’s performance test results to find out.

Why NoSQL?

Application requirements have fundamentally changed, and traditional RDBMS technology has failed to keep pace. As a result, the use of NoSQL technology is rising rapidly. Massive change is underway, disrupting the database status quo.

Making the Shift from Relational to NoSQL

As NoSQL database technology is increasingly being chosen as a viable alternative to relational databases, developers need to approach application development and data modeling differently. Get started by learning more about the advantages of moving from Relational to NoSQL in this whitepaper.

Dealing with Memcached Challenges

Are you dealing with memcached problems like cold cache, heavy contention of RDBMS resources and lack of scale-out flexibility? Download this white paper to see how Couchbase can be a drop-in replacement for memcached servers and what you should consider when migrating existing memcached-based applications to Couchbase Server.

NoSQL Evaluator's Guide

The NoSQL Evaluator's Guide presents a framework for evaluating NoSQL databases for the enterprise. It begins with an overview of NoSQL technology, features and models, and concludes with evaluation criteria.

Developing Applications with Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)

Mission critical applications need a database that is always on. While intra-cluster replication helps with server failures giving you high availability, your system still remains at risk from catastrophic failures. You may also need a way to improve the response time for users when they are globally distributed by replicating information closer to them. 

Building Content-Driven Apps

Whether you're building an online publication, a product catalog or a third-party data aggregation app, a NoSQL document database is a great match for your platform. In this white paper you will learn how Couchbase Server document database technology, integrated with full-text search from Elasticsearch, provide a great combination for building rich, content-centric applications.

ROI Summary for Empowering Systems of Engagement: Business Value of Couchbase NoSQL Engagement Database

Traditional relational databases simply weren’t designed to meet the ever-increasing demands of today’s digital economy. As a result, leading businesses are quickly making the move to modern “systems of engagement” like the world’s first Engagement Database from Couchbase. In this whitepaper, IDC shares how Couchbase customers experienced an average of 274% ROI over 5 years, 19% faster new development cycles, $5.41M in additional revenue per year, and 37% more efficient database management.

NoSQL and Ad Targeting

Ad and offer targeting systems present a host of interactive software scaling challenges. Interactive software software with which a person iteratively interacts in real time) has changed in fundamental ways over the last 35 years. The “online” systems of the 1970s have, through a series of intermediate transformations, evolved into today’s web and mobile applications. These systems solve new problems for potentially vastly larger user populations, and they execute atop a computing infrastructure that has changed even more radically over the years. Learn how a NoSQL database is best positioned to support ad and offer targeting systems.

Couchbase Mobile - Building Always-Available Apps, Always-Responsive Apps

With the explosion of rich multimedia content and data, proliferation of ever more powerful smartphones and tablets, and plethora of mobile apps available in the market, mobile app developers are constantly seeking out new ways to drive app adoption. Mobile apps are becoming very data-driven in nature, as it is really the content and continuous access to that content that truly differentiates the best apps that succeed in the market from those that don’t. There is a new breed on mobile apps that’s quickly becoming the norm: apps that are always-available and always-responsive even when the network is down or slow. Download this white paper to find out how to use Couchbase Mobile to build always-available offline apps that will improve your apps’ user experience.