Month: March 2017

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 2

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 2

Introduction The Couchbase Mobile Sync Gateway changes feed provides a way to monitor events in a mobile deployment. The feed makes it feasible to write sophisticated business logic. I wrote a tool to help examine and understand the feed. You...

Introduction to offline data storage and sync with PouchBD and Couchbase

Introduction to offline data storage and sync with PouchBD and Couchbase

Offline-first is an approach to software development that is different from the traditional approach – where lack of network connection is treated as an error, thereby affecting the overall user experience. With the traditional approach, you start with the most...

Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Customers often tell us they’re preparing to migrate from MongoDB to Couchbase. They come, in part, because they’re tired of the problems they’ve experienced learning how to query MongoDB. Couchbase with N1QL provides a better alternative, especially for scaling up...

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as...

March 7, 2017
Determining Status of a Replication in Couchbase Lite

Determining Status of a Replication in Couchbase Lite

Couchbase Lite runs replications (syncs) using background threads. Starting and stopping replications doesn’t happen synchronously. This can lead to mistakes in detecting the state of a replication. The Replication class has, depending on platform, either a running property or a...

Service Discovery With Java and Database Application in DC/OS

Service Discovery With Java and Database Application in DC/OS

This blog will show how a simple Java application can talk to a database or database as a service (DBaaS) using service discovery in DC/OS. Why Service Discovery? An application typically consist of multiple components such as an application server, a database, a...

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.4

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.4

Couchbase Mobile 1.4 makes it easy to scale to millions of devices and users I am really excited to announce that Couchbase Mobile 1.4 is now available for download. With this release you can scale Couchbase Mobile on-demand to support millions...

Workshop Content for Full-Stack Java and NoSQL Development Now Available

Workshop Content for Full-Stack Java and NoSQL Development Now Available

About a week ago I was at DevNexus 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, giving a workshop on creating full stack applications using a variety of technologies such as Java, Angular, Docker, Couchbase, and JavaFX. Everyone who participated in the full day...

Using Couchbase Full Text Search Service in Java

Using Couchbase Full Text Search Service in Java

Full-text based search is a feature that allows users to search based on texts and keywords, and is very popular among users and the developer community. So it’s a no-brainer that there are lots of APIs and frameworks that offer...