Month: December 2017
Use XDCR to Replicate NoSQL Data between Couchbase Docker Containers: Video Tutorial
A few weeks ago I had written an article outlining the steps for using cross datacenter replication (XDCR) in Couchbase. This article described everything from cluster setup to replicating NoSQL documents that exist in one cluster to another cluster. In...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 28, 2017
Deploying Couchbase on AWS in less than 3 minutes
One of the most challenging parts of deploying your application in the cloud is to set up a proper infrastructure, common tasks like creating a VPC, configuring auto-scaling, load balancers and gateways rapidly become time-consuming and cumbersome. That’s is why...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 27, 2017
Deep Dive on Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)
We saw in a previous post how easy is to set up a Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR), today let’s go a little bit deeper to understand what makes XDCR such a great feature. First of all, XDCR allows you...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 22, 2017
Couchbase vs. DynamoDB – A Quick Comparison
Choosing a NoSQL database is way more complicated than selecting an RDBMS, the world of NoSQL database comes in multiple flavors, each one has a specific design focused on solving a different set of problems. A common comparison and recently...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 19, 2017
Supporting Another Record-Breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday
I’m happy to report that we have nothing to report. Once again, Couchbase Support was fully prepared to provide immediate, all hands responses to major events over the insanely busy, make-or-break shopping extravaganza known as the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend....
Steve Valente, VP Technical Support, Couchbase
December 18, 2017
Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure
Scaling is one of Couchbase Server’s strengths. It’s easy to scale, and Couchbase’s architecture makes an efficient use of your scaling resources. In fact, when Couchbase customer Viber switched from Mongo to Couchbase, they cut the number of servers they...
Matthew Groves
December 18, 2017
Replicate NoSQL Data between Data Centers with Couchbase XDCR
When it comes to databases, data safety and performance are incredibly important. As a business you want to make sure you have disaster recovery in place and you want to make sure your database is not a bottleneck on the...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 14, 2017
Certificate Pinning in Android with Couchbase Mobile
Couchbase Mobile 2.0 supports certificate pinning on all Couchbase mobile platforms. Certificate pinning is a technique used by applications to “pin” a host to it’s certificate/public key. Communication between Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway is encryped and secured using SSL/TLS....
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
December 13, 2017
Going Full Stack with Node.js, Vue.js, and Couchbase NoSQL
If you’ve been keeping up, I’m a huge advocate for Node.js development and the JavaScript development stack. Previously I had written about the Couchbase, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (CEAN) stack and modernized the backend API with Hapi.js, a popular alternative...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 12, 2017
Scaling a Couchbase Cluster for Increasing and Decreasing Demand
When it comes to scaling a database, it is often a task that people want to avoid. For relational databases, which are often vertically sized databases, the administrators would have to take the database offline and add new hardware to...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 11, 2017
Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber
A chatbot can be a novel way to interact with users. After writing a post introducing the basics of serverless, and also writing a post on writing Azure Functions, I decided I would try to build something a little more...
Matthew Groves
December 8, 2017
Using Facets in a Couchbase NoSQL Full Text Search Query
Being able to execute Full Text Search queries in Couchbase without the need for additional tooling such as Elastic is huge for NoSQL. About a year ago, I had written about using Full Text Search (FTS) in Couchbase Server with...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 6, 2017