Category: Analytics
What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1
Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing May 10, 2022
Dataworkz Accelerates Customer 360 Adoption With Couchbase Capella
Like most B2B and B2C companies, gaining a deeper understanding of customer behaviors and desires has become essential to commercial success. However, customer data is trapped in different systems and data stores, limiting the actionable insights that the business can...
Perry Krug April 27, 2022
Creating Python and JavaScript User Defined Functions For Geospatial Queries
SQL++ (or Couchbase N1QL) queries can access data stored in your Couchbase cluster in a variety of ways. There are situations where having the business logic as part of your data queries can also be beneficial. SQL++ supports this with...
Nithish Raghunandanan April 20, 2022
Optimize Performance of External Analytics Collections in Couchbase
It is crucial to plan for performance optimization and resource utilization now that there is support for external Couchbase Analytics collections (AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage). External Couchbase Analytics collections read the data from external storage and do not...
Hussain Towaileb, Software Engineer March 31, 2022
Leveraging your ML models with Couchbase Analytics User Defined Functions (UDF)
With Couchbase 7.0 you’re now capable of allowing integration of Python UDFs with Couchbase Analytics. In Part 1 of this blog series, we covered the essentials for getting Couchbase and the Analytics for Machine Learning (ML) set up. ML has...
Muk Sreenivasan February 16, 2022
Deliver a winning customer experience for the Super Bowl
Super Bowl LVI is coming up this Sunday, with the Cincinnati Bengals facing off against the Los Angeles Rams on their home turf in Inglewood, California. Over 70,000 fans are expected to descend upon SoFi Stadium to watch the event...
Matt McDonough February 10, 2022
Analyzing Statistics for Cost-Based Optimization in Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase Server 7.0 (Enterprise Edition) introduced a Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO). Previous versions of Couchbase Server used a Rule-Based Optimizer (RBO). Couchbase Server has naturally evolved from RBO to CBO like most major relational database systems. The CBO uses cost estimates...
Bingjie Miao, Principal Software Engineer Couchbase January 25, 2022
Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA
In this post, we introduce System Catalogs in Couchbase and walk through a specific use case compared to SQL Server. If you’re like me, after 20 years of working with SQL Server, you tend to pick up on things that...
Richard Douglas - Solutions Engineer January 12, 2022
How Couchbase Simplifies Data Science (Part 1)
This post was co-authored by Karen Yuan, a High School Intern. Data science extracts knowledge from data and applies that knowledge to solve problems. In the next two posts, we will learn how the Couchbase Data Platform can meet various...
Poonam Dhavale, Principal Software Engineer December 21, 2021
What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
A critical zero-day exploit, known as Log4Shell, affecting the Apache Log4j utility (CVE-2021-44228) was made public on December 9, 2021. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated it immediately within our product and security teams, and...
Ian McCloy, Principal Product Manager December 13, 2021
Couchbase Server 7.0.2 according to the rule of 3’s
Couchbase Server 7.0.2 is Available A few months ago, I could not wait for the latest release of Couchbase Server. Its number was seven, and my house number is 77. I felt that seven was a lucky number. But beyond...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing December 8, 2021
ML Meets NoSQL: Integrating Python User-Defined Functions with N1QL for Analytics
After conversations with our customers about the delay in obtaining analytical insights from their Python-based machine learning models, we set out to create a seamless pipeline from Python to Couchbase Analytics that returns faster insights in real time. Introduction With...