Month: January 2018

Couchbase With Spring-Boot and Spring Data

Couchbase With Spring-Boot and Spring Data

One of the biggest barriers for anyone who wants to start using new technologies is usually the learning curve. Often while starting a new project, we end up choosing to use what we already know to avoid any friction right...

Adding and Removing Nodes to a Containerized Couchbase NoSQL Cluster – Video Tutorial

Adding and Removing Nodes to a Containerized Couchbase NoSQL Cluster – Video Tutorial

It is often difficult to understand the true value you get with Couchbase when it comes to being able to quickly and easily scale up or down your NoSQL database cluster. This is possible through a few clicks without ever...

Proof of Concept: Making a case to move from relational

Proof of Concept: Making a case to move from relational

Proof of concept may be just what you need to start when you’re evaluating Couchbase. We’ve been blogging a lot about the technical side of moving from a relational database like Oracle or SQL Server to Couchbase. Here are some...

January 29, 2018
Couchbase for Oracle developers — Part 3 : Database Objects

Couchbase for Oracle developers — Part 3 : Database Objects

Here’s the home page for the series: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ Oracle DBAs work with clusters, machines, storage systems, disks, etc. Oracle developers and their applications work with databases, tables, rows, columns, partitions, users, data types within the Oracle database system.  Let’s compare and...

January 27, 2018
Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are two of the driving reasons to move from a traditional RDBMS to a NoSQL-based system like Couchbase Server. In this webinar we went over the many features of Couchbase Server that address...

JSON Modeling for RDBMS Users (video)

JSON Modeling for RDBMS Users (video)

JSON modeling was covered in a previous blog post which was, in turn, based on a CSV import blog post that came before that. While writing the post on JSON modeling, it occurred to me that it might be useful...

January 26, 2018
Introducing Couchbase PartnerEngage

Introducing Couchbase PartnerEngage

I’m very excited to announce the launch of Couchbase PartnerEngage, a new partner program tailored for resellers, system integrators, consultants and technology partners to capitalize on the Engagement Database market opportunity. Though Couchbase has been active in the partner community...

January 25, 2018
JSON Data Modeling for RDBMS Users

JSON Data Modeling for RDBMS Users

JSON data modeling is a vital part of using a document database like Couchbase. Beyond understanding the basics of JSON, there are two key approaches to modeling relationships between data that will be covered in this blog post. The examples...

January 25, 2018
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture

Back in November, Raju Suravarjjala, (Sr. Director, Couchbase QE & Performance) and I  presented “Mindmap: Oracle to Couchbase For Developers”. You can see the slide deck here: http://bit.ly/2mPdJfo. Overview article for the series is at is at https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/. This series is written in...

January 22, 2018
CSV tooling for migrating to Couchbase from Relational

CSV tooling for migrating to Couchbase from Relational

CSV (Comma-seperated values) is a file format that can be exported from a relational database (like Oracle or SQL Server). It can then be imported into Couchbase Server with the cbimport utility. Note: cbimport comes with Couchbase Enterprise Edition. For...

January 18, 2018
Controlling Hierarchical Logging with SLF4J and Logback

Controlling Hierarchical Logging with SLF4J and Logback

Couchbase Server is a complex product. Like most substantive software, and especially enterprise products, monitoring behavior through logging is important. I recently wrote a small sample application using the Couchbase Multi-Cluster Aware Java client. This client can handle fail over...

Introducing Full Text Search (FTS) in Couchbase Mobile 2.0

Introducing Full Text Search (FTS) in Couchbase Mobile 2.0

Couchbase Mobile 2.0, introduces powerful Full Text Search (FTS) capabilities on your JSON Documents. This is part of the new Query interface based on N1QL, Couchbase’s declarative query language that extends SQL for JSON. If you are familiar with SQL,...