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Introducing Couchbase 7 Beta, Mapping RDBMS to NoSQL

Couchbase Server 7 Beta Couchbase Server 7 Beta is a very exciting release. It is available, free in both Enterprise and Community Editions. We encourage our entire community to download and try this groundbreaking release that features scopes and collections...

Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing November 17, 2020

Learn more about using various OIDC and OAuth 2.0 authentication flows with Couchbase Sync Gateway

Best Practices and Tutorials couchbase lite Couchbase Mobile

OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Fundamentals for Authentication & Authorization

OAuth 2.0 is an industry standard for “delegated authorization” which is the ability to provide an application or client access to data or features offered by another app or service. OAuth 2.0 focuses on authorization and is not prescriptive about authentication. OpenID...

Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager June 22, 2021

Learn more about data import with Couchbase Cloud, including custom key generation and more

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud

New and Improved Import in Couchbase Cloud

We’re happy to announce that the release of Couchbase Cloud 1.6 comes with a number of key improvements, particularly in data import. These feature improvements include Import of documents using the Couchbase Cloud Web UI with various key generation and...

Prasad Doddi June 21, 2021

See how Global Secondary Index (GSI) partitioning can be used for more than just partitioning

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Global Secondary Index

How to Use Global Secondary Index Partitioning for More Than Partitions

As a field engineer, I work with customers and often see them using Couchbase features with a “thinking-out-of-the-box” approach. One such feature that I see being used more creatively is Global Secondary Index (GSI) partitions. Let’s first discuss GSI and...

James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer June 17, 2021

Learn how Google Autopilot and Couchbase Autonomous Operator automate your Kubernetes deployments

Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud Kubernetes

Google Autopilot and the Journey from Manual to Autonomous

It’s fair to say that Kubernetes has done wonders for containerization, becoming a crucial component of organizations’ digital transformation strategies. Kubernetes goes some way to easing the burden of managing various container clusters, while its ease-of-use minimizes the time taken...

Anil Kumar, Director Product Management, Couchbase Server June 16, 2021

Couchbase Cloud

Couchbase Cloud New Features Now Available: Public API, Improved Import

We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Cloud version 1.6, which introduces features that streamline account administration, enhance data migration and simplify how you work with Couchbase Cloud. In this post I’ll provide a general overview of the...

Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase June 15, 2021

Application Design Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Global Secondary Index

Why NoSQL JSON Databases Are So Useful

My family hears me talk about JSON databases rather frequently. Naturally, I had to explain that Jason is not the owner of my company! Instead, many modern databases use JSON as a data format. They usually leave the room at...

Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing June 14, 2021

Learn about the general availability release of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.2

Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server Customers

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.2

Today we are announcing the General Availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (CAO) Version 2.2. This release provides an automated cloud-native database experience with exciting new features and improvements, such as: Auto-scaling Couchbase services Online storage scaling (scale up...

Roshani Sanghavi, Product Manager, Cloud-Native Platform June 10, 2021

Learn how to use Advanced Bucket Accessors in Couchbase for key-value store Eventing

Couchbase Server Eventing

Eventing: Introducing Advanced Bucket Accessors in Couchbase

Advanced Bucket Accessors in Couchbase make it possible to access advanced key-value store (KV) functionality using the following built-in operators. They utilize the same bucket bindings defined in the handler as Basic Bucket Accessors, but expose a richer set of...

Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase June 9, 2021

Couchbase SDK N1QL / Query Transactions

Using libcouchbase / C SDK to run transactions with Couchbase 7.0

Couchbase Server 7.0 now supports N1QL transactions. Let’s try writing a C program that performs a set of transactions on a single node. Step 1: We first decide how to call the program. The inputs will be the URL to...

Isha Kandaswamy June 7, 2021

How Python input functions can be used in Couchbase Server

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Cloud Couchbase SDK

How to Take Python Input in Couchbase

Writing software is never easy. Writing software that appeals to users requires interacting with them. So do you get relevant data that you can put to use on behalf of users? Python – the most-wanted language for building software according...

Tyler Mitchell June 2, 2021

.NET Couchbase Server N1QL / Query

SQL and NoSQL comparison: ASP.NET application

This SQL and NoSQL comparison is the next step after converting your SQL Server database to Couchbase. In the previous post, I copied AdventureWorks from SQL Server to Couchbase. In this post, I’m going to show an ASP.NET Core application...

Matthew Groves May 27, 2021

.NET Couchbase SDK Full Text Search

Data Structures & Algorithms For NoSQL Applications

This article introduces Data Structures and how they work with Couchbase Server 7.0 Scopes and Collections features. What are data structures? Couchbase Data Structures is an API feature that aligns the language of the database interface with a programming language....

Tyler Mitchell January 22, 2021

.NET Couchbase Server Java

Learn NoSQL with Couchbase Playground

We are going to preview Couchbase Playground Beta, an experimental project from Couchbase. With this tool, we can help developers learn NoSQL for free and play with Couchbase and SDKs (the SDK is just one of the features) like Java,...

Eric Bishard December 2, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase SDK Full Text Search

Using NoSQL for Geospatial Search Without a Spatial Database

Introduction Couchbase Full Text Search (FTS) is a great tool for indexing and querying geospatial data. In this article, I’ll present a geospatial search use case and demonstrate the various ways that we can perform a search of location data...

Brian Kane, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase October 30, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase SDK Couchbase Server

Migrating Data from MongoDB to Couchbase, Part 2

Prolog The previous article provided details on how to migrate a MongoDB data set to Couchbase Server. This article shows you how to use the Couchbase SDK to access the data via a Java console application. Code snippets show how...

Douglas Bonser, Principal Solution Engineer, Couchbase July 30, 2020

Application Design Couchbase SDK Java

Refactoring Spring Microservices Apps to work with Couchbase

I’m a big fan of online learning platforms, such as Udemy. For the price of a bottle of wine, you could learn pretty much anything, from psychology and Thai cooking to programming languages, operating systems and IT certifications. Recently, I...

Pavel Novokshonov, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase July 26, 2020

Connectors Couchbase SDK Couchbase Server

Announcing Spring Data Couchbase 4.0

We are delighted to announce that the eagerly awaited Spring Data Couchbase 4.0 is now available with enhanced capabilities. Built on top of Couchbase Java SDK 3.0, Spring Data Couchbase out-of-the-box comes with technology enhancements and leverages the latest Couchbase...

Arun Vijayraghavan May 12, 2020

.NET Analytics Application Design

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved

We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...

Anil Kumar, Director Product Management, Couchbase Server January 21, 2020

.NET Couchbase SDK Java

The Sprouts of “SDK 3”

Software is alive. By that, I am not referring to the part where it can occasionally vex you in how it gets into a certain state. That is probably explainable by a bug somewhere. By alive I am referring to...

Matt Ingenthron, Senior Director, SDK Engineering, Couchbase June 18, 2019

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Introducing the Couchbase Java SDK 3.0 Alpha

I am super excited to finally write this announcement, because it allows me to put the spotlight on something we’ve been working hard over the last months. In a collective effort across the SDK team, we have started to roll...

Michael Nitschinger June 18, 2019

Java

Getting Rid of Sticky Sessions in Java | Couchbase Spring Session

Sticky Sessions refers to the need to redirect the requests of a given user to the same server where his session lives in. It is considered an anti-pattern as in case of a server failure, all users connected to it...

Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase June 3, 2019

Java

How to Boost Spring Data Performance

Spring Data provides an easy programming model for data access in both relational and non-relational databases. It became very popular among Java/JVM developers because of the small learning curve and low codebase. However, developers frequently run into performance issues while using...

Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase May 15, 2019

Couchbase Server Java

Create a production-grade Java microservice architecture with JHipster and Couchbase

Tayeb Chlyah is a Java lead architect with solid experience on performance large-scale applications, microservices, and NoSQL databases. He has developed a couple of open source Java libraries for Couchbase. Introduction Every successful developer needs to keep up to date...

Laura Czajkowski, Developer Community Manager, Couchbase March 1, 2019

.NET Couchbase SDK Full Text Search

Data Structures & Algorithms For NoSQL Applications

Tyler Mitchell January 22, 2021

Couchbase SDK GoLang

Introducing Couchbase Go SDK 2.0 Alpha

I’m pleased to announce the Couchbase Go SDK 2.0 Alpha. This new SDK brings in a series of changes across all of the Couchbase SDKs that the team has been putting together. The new SDKs bring a completely new API...

Charles Dixon, Software Engineer, Couchbase June 18, 2019

Couchbase SDK GoLang

A Couchbase Analytics Example using the Go SDK

This post illustrates the use of Couchbase Analytics with the Couchbase Go SDK. Couchbase Analytics is a new service available in Couchbase Server 6.0, you can read more at https://docs.couchbase.com/server/6.0/analytics/introduction.html. In this post we’re going to use a real world...

Charles Dixon, Software Engineer, Couchbase October 11, 2018

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server Full Text Search

Create a Full Text Search Typeahead With Go, jQuery, NoSQL

About a week ago I write a tutorial for implementing a typeahead search with Node.js and jQuery. A typeahead is one of many great use-cases when using full text search (FTS), but it certainly isn’t the only use-case. As many...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase August 14, 2018

Couchbase SDK GoLang

Couchbase Go SDK 1.4.0 Released!

We’ve recently pushed out another minor release of the Couchbase Go SDK: 1.4.0. This is a new minor version and most notably includes support for Response Time Observability and Transparent Compression. What’s in this release? We’ve added support for Transparent...

Charles Dixon, Software Engineer, Couchbase July 25, 2018

Application Design Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server

Using JWT for Authorization With GraphQL, Go, and Couchbase

Over the past few months I’ve been writing a GraphQL series using the Go programming language. First we saw how to get started with GraphQL and Go, followed by an alternative way to handle data relationships by using resolvers on...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase July 19, 2018

Application Design Best Practices and Tutorials GoLang

Data Relationships – GraphQL & NoSQL in a Golang Application

By now I’m hoping that you’ve had a chance to look at my previous tutorial titled, Using GraphQL with Golang and a NoSQL Database, which is more or less a quick start for using GraphQL with Couchbase. There, we saw how...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase May 10, 2018

Application Design Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server

Using GraphQL with Golang and a NoSQL Database

A few weeks ago I had mentioned that I was learning about the increasingly popular GraphQL and how it can be a replacement to the common RESTful API. In my previous example, we saw how to create a GraphQL application...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase May 8, 2018

Couchbase Server GoLang

Timed tasks using Couchbase and Go

Alberto Marchetti is a full-stack developer, and author of “RenderScript: parallel computing on Android, the easy way.” He is always living on the edge by constantly jumping into the discovery of modern languages and technologies. Timed tasks using Couchbase and Go In...

Laura Czajkowski, Developer Community Manager, Couchbase March 19, 2018

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server GoLang

Create Continuous Deployment Pipelines with Golang & Jenkins

A few weeks ago I had written about continuously deploying an application written with the Go programming language using a popular service called Travis CI. This example demonstrated creating an application that used a Couchbase NoSQL database, creating unit tests,...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase February 20, 2018

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server GoLang

Developing Applications with Go and NoSQL

If you didn’t know this, Go is one of my favorite programming technologies. It is fast, clean, and not too difficult to learn. In the past I had created some content around using Go with Couchbase. For example, I demonstrated...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase February 16, 2018

Best Practices and Tutorials GoLang

Continuously Deploying a Golang Application Using Travis CI

So you’ve been developing an application using the Go programming language with a team of developers for your organization. Best practice would say that you need to create proper tests and develop a continuous integration and deployment strategy. If you’ve...

Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase February 13, 2018

Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server Customers

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.2

Roshani Sanghavi, Product Manager, Cloud-Native Platform June 10, 2021

Analytics Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture

Enable AI-driven insights using Couchbase: a practical framework

Chris Galy, Chief People Officer at Couchbase, explained in an article you can find with a quick Google search that our mission is about channeling our passion to solve hard problems so our customers can innovate and change the world....

Andrea Vasco, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase February 17, 2021

Couchbase Mobile Solutions

Make Machine Learning Predictions With Couchbase Lite

Couchbase Lite’s Predictive Query API allows applications to leverage pre-trained, Machine Learning(ML) models to run predictive queries against data in embedded Couchbase Lite database in a convenient, fast and always-available way. These predictions can be combined with predictions made against...

Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager January 7, 2021

Couchbase Server Solutions

Blockchain Technology vs. NoSQL Databases

Both NoSQL databases and modern Blockchain ledgers benefit from a set of common principles. When they are both implemented for an application a lot can be accomplished as the platforms can complement each other. What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a...

Tyler Mitchell October 22, 2020

Couchbase Mobile edge computing Solutions

Cloud to Edge data sync with Couchbase Sync Gateway

The Couchbase Sync Gateway 2.8 release announced support for enterprise-grade cloud-to-edge data sync. The new inter-Sync Gateway replication technology allows enterprise-grade scalable, secure sync between cloud and edge data centers in a distributed cloud environment to cater to the demands...

Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager October 20, 2020

Android Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture

Peer-to-Peer Database Sync with Couchbase Lite

Couchbase Lite 2.8 release announced support for out-of-the-box, enterprise-grade peer-to-peer database sync solution. The new capability allows direct sync between Couchbase Lite enabled mobile and/or non-mobile embedded apps without the need for a cloud-based control point. In this post, we...

Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager October 19, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture couchbase lite

Architect Offline-first & Couchbase Edge Computing Solutions

Release 1.0 of Couchbase for mobile was announced in 2014, making it the industry’s first NoSQL mobile database for offline first applications. Offline first is an application development paradigm that ensures that the functionality of the apps is unaffected by...

Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager October 14, 2020

Application Design Couchbase SDK Java

Refactoring Spring Microservices Apps to work with Couchbase

Pavel Novokshonov, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase July 26, 2020

Application Design Connectors Couchbase SDK

Using Elasticsearch Connector with Ingest Node Pipeline

Recently, as I was exploring our documentation to acquaint myself with the capabilities of Elasticsearch Connector 4.2, I came across a configuration called Pipeline. I was curious to explore and understand what it means and what purpose does this solve....

Arun Vijayraghavan July 22, 2020

Application Design Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture

Implementing a Scheduler Via Couchbase Eventing (Part 1)

This is the first of a multi-part series to leverage the Couchbase Eventing Service to run multiple scheduled tasks at specific recurring intervals in a cron like fashion completely inside the database without requiring additional infrastructure via a single general-purpose...

Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase May 22, 2020

Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server

Public Network, External DNS & Couchbase Autonomous Operator

Why expose the Couchbase database on the public network? Below are some examples: Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Client SDK access to Couchbase cluster Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms *Note – All of these use cases share...

Balaji Narayanan, Solutions Architect, Couchbase May 5, 2020

Application Design Best Practices and Tutorials Data Modeling

The Series on Time Series (in Couchbase): Episode 1

What Is This About So, you have a time series use case? So do I, and this blog article is the proof of it. When I learn about a new subject, I like using the method of loci to memorize...

Oleg Kuzmin, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase April 29, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud

New and Improved Import in Couchbase Cloud

Prasad Doddi June 21, 2021

Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud Kubernetes

How to Take Python Input in Couchbase

Tyler Mitchell June 2, 2021

.NET Couchbase Cloud

Couchbase Cloud on Azure Marketplace

This spring, Couchbase announced the availability of Couchbase Cloud on Microsoft Azure Marketplace to provide Azure customers access to the scalability, reliability, and agility of Couchbase Cloud. Also available on AWS Marketplace, Couchbase Cloud on the Azure Marketplace aligns with...

Matthew Groves May 25, 2021

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server

Alternate Address & Port Support for Couchbase/N1QL Clusters

In order to connect to Couchbase deployments on cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) or Kubernetes, we support multi-addresses in the form of alternate addresses. External applications use this facility to communicate with the cluster, but not directly to the nodes....

Isha Kandaswamy May 13, 2021

Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server

Your Guide To The Cloud: Migrating From Couchbase Server to Couchbase Cloud on AWS

If you’re running a Couchbase Server deployment, did you know you can easily migrate to Couchbase Cloud on AWS and instantly gain the scale and efficiency of a managed cloud service model while offloading the work of installations, upgrades and...

Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase May 6, 2021

Couchbase Cloud

An Introduction To Couchbase Cloud

The main aspect of my role here at Couchbase, is educating people in different areas of the Couchbase portfolio. Then, working closely with customers to build resilient, performant solutions for their specific application needs. Couchbase Cloud became generally available around...

Daniel May 3, 2021

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Application Design Couchbase Cloud

Multi-Cloud Computing – Strategy & Considerations

This post continues our look at various core computing concepts by diving into the emerging paradigm known as multi-cloud computing. We describe what an enterprise multi-cloud strategy looks like and provide considerations for setting multi-cloud management and storage-related goals. I...

Tyler Mitchell April 21, 2021

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Application Design Couchbase Architecture Couchbase Cloud

Hybrid Cloud Services & Computing Models

What are Hybrid Cloud Services? Everyone has heard the term “hybrid cloud,” but what exactly are hybrid cloud services, and why are they becoming so important to enterprise architectures? And what’s the best way to take advantage of a hybrid...

Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase April 15, 2021

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Cloud Couchbase Server

Use cases and Best Practices for Distributed Transactions through N1QL

Does Couchbase support transactions? Yes! With 6.5, we introduced the ACID transaction support in Couchbase through the SDKs. The 1st question we got at the time from the customers that heard about it was: Is transaction support available through N1QL?...

Kamini Jagtiani February 24, 2021

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