Couchbase Blog

There are two simple linux OS level settings that people seem to be overlooking setting correctly on their production systems I have seen. These are documented elsewhere, but they keep coming up and seems like they need some quick review here. It is not like these are some super secret setting or magic bullet performance fixing items necessarily, but they are things that in a production Couchbase DB should be set correctly as below and incorporated into whatever system/process you use to bootstrap the nodes you use for Couchbase.

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Big Data

Apache Hadoop the big data platform. It was designed to derive value from volume. It can store and process a lot of data at rest, big data. It was designed for analytics. It was not designed for velocity.

It’s a warehouse. Is efficient to add and remove many items from a warehouse. It is not efficient to add and remove a single item from a warehouse.

Data sets are stored. Information is generated from historical data, and you can retrieve it. Pure Volume

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You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge the architecture of a distributed system by its topology.

If two distributed systems are equally effective, is the one with the simpler topology the one with the better architecture? This article compares the architecture of two document databases and two wide column stores by looking at their topologies.

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Via this blog we're releasing the first developer preview of the 1.4.0 Java SDK. Aside from the usual bugfixes and enhancements, this new minor release provides support for optimized connection management which was recently introduced in Couchbase Server 2.5.0. See below for more information on what's new here.

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Tons of buzz in the NoSQL world this week. What's coming up in Couchbase:

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Big stories and case studies coming out from Couchbase this week! See what else is happening at Couchbase:

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musiXmatch is the second most used app on spotify and features the world’s largest lyrics catalog. So what is LARGE? It means 20 million users accessing more that 7 million lyrics in 38 languages.

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The upcoming libcouchbase version will feature enhanced cluster updates and a whole lot of other stability and performance improvements.

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For those of you anxiously waiting for the next Couchbase Server release, we have great news! Today, we’re excited to announce the public release of Couchbase Server 2.5 Enterprise Edition. This new release delivers some exciting new capabilities in the area of reliability and security that continue to make Couchbase Server the first and best NoSQL database choice for enterprises.

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