Category: Application Design
Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance
Array is THE difference between the relational model and the JSON model. — Gerald Sangudi Abstract JSON array gives you flexibility in the type of elements, number of elements, size of the elements, and the depth of the elements. This...
Video Contribution Network Performance Monitoring using Time Series Data in Couchbase
Context Time series Data is collection of metrics or quantities that are gathered over even interval in time and ordered chronologically. There is a potential for co-relation between the observations at different time periods. The time interval at which data...
Refactoring Spring Microservices application to work with Couchbase
I’m a big fan of online learning platforms, such as Udemy. For the price of a bottle of wine you could learn pretty much anything, from psychology and Thai cooking to programming languages, operating systems and IT certifications. Recently, I...
Using Elasticsearch Connector with Ingest Node Pipeline
Recently, as I was exploring our documentation to acquaint myself with the capabilities of Elasticsearch Connector 4.2, I came across a configuration called Pipeline. I was curious to explore and understand what it means and what purpose does this solve....
FIRST CLASS SQL for FULL-TEXT SEARCH
Over time, the database industry has realized full-text search and SQL are two sides of the same coin. Text search needs further query processing, query processing needs text search to efficiently filter for text patterns. The SQL databases have added...
Example Architectures for Data Intensive Applications.
…a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. —William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style In the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits...
Implement FHIR REST server with Couchbase
This is a follow up to my previous post that covered the topic of FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL. In this blog, I will discuss the topic of how to implement the FHIR Search REST API Server over the...
Couchbase Eventing: small scripts that solve big problems
Eventing Simple Yet Powerful: Eventing allows small scripts to overcome hard to solve problems. If you are familiar with both Couchbase and Eventing please feel free to skip the brief overview and skip ahead to the examples. Overview: First off, let’s...
Implementing a robust portable cron like scheduler via Couchbase Eventing (Part 1)
This is the first of a multi-part series to leverage the Couchbase Eventing Service to run multiple scheduled tasks at specific recurring intervals in a cron like fashion completely inside the database without requiring additional infrastructure via a single general-purpose...
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...