Month: April 2020

Creating Dynamic VMs Infrastructure With Xen Hosts
Introduction In today’s world, the server infrastructure machines are either in on-premise data centers, private data centers or public cloud data centers. These machines are either physical bare metal machines, virtual machines (VMs) with hypervisors or small containers like docker...

Monitoring a NoSQL Database with Couchbase and Prometheus
Couchbase Server currently has a plethora of stats from data access throughput in KV and query to system resources like disk IO and CPU to newer services like eventing. There have been a number of community authored Prometheus Exporters written...

Extending Maintenance for Couchbase Server 5.x
Announcing an extension to Couchbase Server version 5.x’s maintenance period to provide our customers more time for upgrade planning. At Couchbase we are constantly reviewing what we can do to help our customers navigate through these challenging times. This is...

Best Practices for Operating Couchbase Server as Non-Root
With Couchbase Server 6.5.1. we now standardize the non-root install and upgrade for rpm packages. This will now allow you to easily install, upgrade and maintain Couchbase Server as non-root. The purpose of this blog is not to replace our...

The Series on Time Series (in Couchbase): Episode 1
What Is This About So, you have a time series use case? So do I, and this blog article is the proof of it. When I learn about a new subject, I like using the method of loci to memorize...

Couchbase Named to JMP Securities’ 2020 Hot 100 List
I am pleased to share that Couchbase has been named to JMP Securities’ 10th annual Hot 100 report of The Best Privately-Held Software Companies in 2020. At Couchbase, we attack hard problems and play to win, together, and we’re honored...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!
We’re proud to announce the general availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0. We have achieved significant milestones since we first announced production certification of Couchbase Server on Docker containers in June of 2016, and with Autonomous Operator 2.0, we are...

Testing For Growth
The goal of load testing should be to identify what load your current cluster can handle, and how you need to mutate and adapt your cluster configuration as you reach various load milestones. The result should be a plan for...

FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL
Couchbase is a JSON database that has now become an alternative to the traditional RDBMS. It has achieved this, not only by providing the industry leading Key Value store and the same query and ACID translation capabilities that organizations have...

Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts
Six thousand years ago, the Sumerians invented writing for transaction processing — Gray & Reuter By any measure, MongoDB is a popular document-oriented JSON database. In the last dozen years, it has grown from its humble beginnings of a single...