Category: Application Design
4 Patterns for Microservices Architecture in Couchbase
Microservices have emerged as a common architecture pattern over the last decade. In this approach, small, autonomous and loosely coupled services work together over a distributed network. Each microservice is typically delimited to a specific function and business boundary, runs...
Marian Puhl, Solutions Engineer July 21, 2021
Why NoSQL JSON Databases Are So Useful
My family hears me talk about JSON databases rather frequently. Naturally, I had to explain that Jason is not the owner of my company! Instead, many modern databases use JSON as a data format. They usually leave the room at...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing June 14, 2021
Multi-Cloud Computing – Strategy & Considerations
This post continues our look at various core computing concepts by diving into the emerging paradigm known as multi-cloud computing. We describe what an enterprise multi-cloud strategy looks like and provide considerations for setting multi-cloud management and storage-related goals. I...
Tyler Mitchell April 21, 2021
Hybrid Cloud Services & Computing Models
What are Hybrid Cloud Services? Everyone has heard the term “hybrid cloud,” but what exactly are hybrid cloud services, and why are they becoming so important to enterprise architectures? And what’s the best way to take advantage of a hybrid...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase April 15, 2021
How we implemented Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase
ACID Transactions are a must when you have strict data consistency requirements in your application. The costs of running transactions on distributed systems can rapidly create bottlenecks at scale. In this article, we will give you an overview of some...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase March 23, 2021
Data Structures & Full-Text Search Indexing in Couchbase
This is Part 3 of a series examining Data Structures in NoSQL databases. In this post, we use Full-Text Search natural language queries against data structures in Couchbase. Part 1: Data Structures for NoSQL Applications we used simplified JSON data...
Tyler Mitchell March 16, 2021
N1QL User Defined Functions
Introduction Couchbase Server 6.5 introduced User Defined Functions as a Developer Preview feature. N1QL is primarily a declarative language – where you ask what to get, and the language works out for you the actual method. While declarative languages have...
Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase December 14, 2020
Building Customer-Obsessed Database Applications
Customer obsession is a powerful concept for any company. Whether your customers are internal or external users of your platform – every experience should be timely and meaningful. Customer 360 NoSQL database development is a powerful approach to delivering these...
Tyler Mitchell December 1, 2020
Cost Based Optimization with Couchbase JSON database
Couchbase Query Cost Based Optimization (CBO) was released as a Developer Preview in Couchbase 6.5, and it is now ready for GA with Couchbase v7.0. While CBO is a ubiquitous feature with traditional RDBMS, and that users have come to...
Binh Le November 30, 2020
How To Migrate to Scopes and Collections in Couchbase 7.0
Scopes and Collections are a new feature introduced in Couchbase 7 that allow you to logically organize data within Couchbase. You should take advantage of scopes and collections for simpler mapping from RDBMS as well as consolidation of hundreds of...
Shivani Gupta November 23, 2020
Scopes & Collections for Multi-Tenant Apps: Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase 7.0 introduces Scopes and Collections to easily build and deploy microservice based multi-tenant applications. Scopes and Collections allow logical isolation of different types of data, independent lifecycle management and security control at multiple levels of granularity. Application developers will...
Shivani Gupta November 17, 2020
Couchbase Transactions with N1QL
Couchbase introduced ACID transactions in its v6.5 release with the Couchbase SDKs, and this has now been extended to Couchbase N1QL Query in the upcoming release 7. A quick recap – Couchbase provides support for multi-document ACID transactions for its...
Binh Le November 17, 2020