Month: April 2020

Creating Dynamic VMs Infrastructure With Xen Hosts

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

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

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

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...

April 30, 2020
The Series on Time Series (in Couchbase): Episode 1

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

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...

April 29, 2020
Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!

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

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...

April 27, 2020
FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL

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 come to...

April 25, 2020
Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts

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...

April 25, 2020
Using Eviction Effectively to Manage Memory in Couchbase GSI

Using Eviction Effectively to Manage Memory in Couchbase GSI

Eviction In Couchbase server, the Plasma storage subsystem used by Global Secondary Index is initialized with a specific value to be used as its memory quota. The storage subsystem constantly tracks its memory usage and adheres to its memory quota...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 2

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 with Prometheus – Part 2

Prerequisites As mentioned in Part 1 of the blog, we need to run Prometheus and Grafana in the Kubernetes environment on our Amazon EKS. The recommended way is to use Kube-Prometheus, an Open Source project. Not only will this simplify...

April 21, 2020