Month: July 2019

Customer 360 – Part 2 – Data Ingestion

Customer 360 – Part 2 – Data Ingestion

So, we already took a high-level look at what’s involved in building a Customer 360 solution on Couchbase here. That’s right, it involved a lot of thinking. Sorry, no way around that. Ya gotta think, can’t be one of the...

July 30, 2019
Analytics – Love the Doc Model You’re With

Analytics – Love the Doc Model You’re With

In business applications, the data is often modeled for a large number of concurrent low latency queries. If you want to gain insight by looking at trends, however, you end up wishing you had an entirely different data model. The...

July 26, 2019
Synchronized Drawing Apps with Couchbase Mobile

Synchronized Drawing Apps with Couchbase Mobile

Couchbase Mobile contains a robust and powerful embedded NoSQL database, called Couchbase Lite, that can be used within your iOS, Android, and Xamarin apps. The Couchbase Mobile stack also contains Sync Gateway. Sync Gateway enables secure data synchronization across Couchbase...

Thinking About Customer 360

Thinking About Customer 360

Customer 360. Or, as one of our competitors (who shall remain nameless, but uses a Birch leaf as their logo) calls it, Single View. Everyone wants it. Everyone needs it. After all, most of your customer data is stored in...

July 23, 2019
Running Couchbase Autonomous Operator on VMware

Running Couchbase Autonomous Operator on VMware

Cormac Hogan is a Director and Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Storage and Availability Business Unit (SABU) at VMware.  Bio: I joined VMware back in April 2005, and have previously held roles in VMware’s Engineering,...

Prometheus Monitoring of Couchbase Mobile Kubernetes Cluster

Prometheus Monitoring of Couchbase Mobile Kubernetes Cluster

UPDATE: Starting in v2.8, Sync Gateway includes built-in Prometheus exporter support. Stats are exported in Prometheus-compatible format through the metrics endpoint. This implies that there is no longer the need to have a separate exporter. Read the Couchbase Documentation for...

FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 2

FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 2

For all those who are restlessly eager, let me reveal the deep dark secret of all the performance optimisations in FTS in 6.5.0 is, “ Do less And Do it less often **  ” And I am sure you would...

July 11, 2019
How to use N1QL to migrate Oracle data into Couchbase

How to use N1QL to migrate Oracle data into Couchbase

Getting the Couchbase server to run on your PC or Mac involves a few simple steps to download the software and spin up a cluster with all the Couchbase services that you need (https://docs.couchbase.com/server/6.0/getting-started/start-here.html). Sample buckets are available with the...

July 9, 2019
A Glimpse of FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 1

A Glimpse of FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 1

Ever since the nimbler, refined scorch indexing format released in Couchbase 6.0.0, the FTS team has been pretty excited about the future optimisation potential unlocked with the newer indexing scheme. With the 6.5.0 release, we have essentially embarked on a...

July 3, 2019