Month: March 2020

Index Advisor Service for N1QL (March refresh)

Index Advisor Service for N1QL (March refresh)

This is our March drop for Index Advisor service for N1QL after fixing some of the bugs that were found after our last refresh in Feb. We plan to keep improvising the Index Advisor service(What is it?). The fixes in...

March 31, 2020
NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase

NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase

Replication has been a crucial part of Database Systems for decades for providing availability and disaster recovery. In recent times, with the evolution of distributed databases to address the need for highly available, scalable and globally distributed deployments operating across...

FTS and N1QL: Better MongoDB in Operator Performance Querying Multiple Arrays

FTS and N1QL: Better MongoDB in Operator Performance Querying Multiple Arrays

Introduction Couchbase Full Text Search (FTS) is a great fit for indexing multiple arrays and executing queries with multiple filter predicates in arrays.  In this article, I’ll demonstrate the advantages of using FTS over GSI (Global Secondary Index) for array...

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Link to the series home page: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ As part of data remodeling, while moving from the relational model to the JSON model, you’ll have to consider the data type mapping. In Oracle, you’ll have to create and declare the types...

March 25, 2020
JSON is Case Sensitive. You Don’t Have to Be.

JSON is Case Sensitive. You Don’t Have to Be.

A RoSe by any other case would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare You must have learned capitalization rules in your grammar school, but the real-world search is not so sensitive to capitalization. Charles de Gaulle uses lower case for the...

March 23, 2020
COVID-19 Response

COVID-19 Response

To Our Couchbase Community,  We at Couchbase recognize the profound impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is making on the world. Like other companies in our industry, Couchbase continues to closely monitor the quickly-changing developments, and as such, we have implemented...

Inter-Kubernetes Networking via VPC Peering

Inter-Kubernetes Networking via VPC Peering

1. Introduction It is often desirable by enterprise customers to have standby database cluster/s for data locality and high performance, disaster recovery and/or for mere data backups. Couchbase Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) requires no introduction as customers have been...

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta

Introducing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta Today, we are delighted to announce the latest preview of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.0 beta. This release is a significant update to the Couchbase Autonomous Operator. This release introduces several new enterprise-grade...

Women’s History Month – Two Couchbase Engineer Interviews

Women’s History Month – Two Couchbase Engineer Interviews

Happy Women’s History Month! Time Magazine recently profiled its top 100 Women of the Year–women who have broken barriers and whose contributions have advanced science, art, education, athletics, politics, law, society (the list goes on), essentially paving the way for...

March 16, 2020
SQL to NoSQL – 7 Metrics to Compare Query Language

SQL to NoSQL – 7 Metrics to Compare Query Language

Organizations who want to take advantage of the many benefits of NoSQL document databases, often find that they have two challenges: How to convert their RDBMS schemas to leverage the schema-less document model. Learn a new API/Query  to access the...

March 6, 2020
Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?

Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?

When you need to query documents using SQL, there are two options available in Couchbase. The Query service and the Analytics service. Our blog, N1QL: To Query or To Analyze? provides a detailed overview of both services. I highly recommend...

March 4, 2020
Documentation Survey Open Now: Win Prizes!

Documentation Survey Open Now: Win Prizes!

The Couchbase Documentation Team and Couchbase Developer Advocacy Team has joined forces to create a survey to listen to your opinions on documentation with the goal of better understanding how to improve! This survey is open to EVERY developer who...

March 3, 2020