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In a previous life, Marco used to be CTO, radiation physicist, software architect, sysadmin, DBA, trainer and general handyman at Italy's largest radiation theraphy practice. Having switched career and country, he spent more than two decades in various support and development positions in Informix first and IBM later, before finally taking the plunge and joining Couchbase, to help them make gold out of N1QL. He holds several patents and has authored open source projects of his own.

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The N1QL Query Language Now Has a Per-Request Memory Quota

Unlike other services, the N1QL query language so far hasn’t had the option to adjust its memory footprint. Until now. With the release of Couchbase Server 7.0, the N1QL Query Service now includes a per-request memory quota. Background The principal...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer September 8, 2021

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server JavaScript

N1QL Now Supports User-Defined Functions

Declarative query languages have been a major gear shift in the world of database engines. The N1QL query language is primarily a declarative query language. You tell the query what to get and N1QL works out the rest of the...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer August 25, 2021

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server N1QL / Query

Optimize N1QL performance using request profiling

Monitoring uncovered the resource hog. Now what? Couchbase Server 4.5 introduced a mechanism to keep an eye on executing requests, so that slow performers could be highlighted. This DZone article covers the subject of N1QL monitoring in great detail, but...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer October 20, 2017