Category: Application Design
Building autoComplete or typeAhead functionality using Full Text Search
What is autoComplete? Autocomplete as the wikipedia says “Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing” It is also known as Suggestions or Type Ahead or...
Cipher Suites in Couchbase Server 6.5
For many, “Cryptography” is the little green lock icon next to the web address of their favorite websites, and for others, they might recall the TLS vulnerabilities that have hit in recent years. Data is today’s digital gold, and...
Customer 360 – Part 2 – Data Ingestion
So, we already took a high-level look at what’s involved in building a Customer 360 solution on Couchbase here. That’s right, it involved a lot of thinking. Sorry, no way around that. Ya gotta think, can’t be one of the...
Thinking About Customer 360
Customer 360. Or, as one of our competitors (who shall remain nameless, but uses a Birch leaf as their logo) calls it, Single View. Everyone wants it. Everyone needs it. After all, most of your customer data is stored in...
How to use N1QL to migrate Oracle data into Couchbase
Getting the Couchbase server to run on your PC or Mac involves a few simple steps to download the software and spin up a cluster with all the Couchbase services that you need (https://docs.couchbase.com/server/6.0/getting-started/start-here.html). Sample buckets are available with the...
Build a Diary Web Application with Couchbase as the Back-end
Michael Aboagye is a backend software/security engineer based in Ghana. He is interested in building secure backend services with Python. In this tutorial, we will look at how we can build a diary web application based on the flask framework...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases: A Comparative Study.
The business applications have requirements: take customer orders, deliver customer orders, track shipping, generate inventory report, end of the day/month/quarter business report, generate business dashboards and more. These requirements evolve slowly. They remain even when you choose a NoSQL database....
N1QL Index Advisor: Improve Query Performance and Productivity
As application developers, your main focus is to design the most efficient queries for your application. You want to ensure the integrity of the data that your application pushes to the database, and construct the most efficient queries to retrieve...
Search and Rescue: 7 Reasons for N1QL (SQL) developers to use Search
People don’t want a four key index. They need a four-ms response. Ted Levitt Application development is demanding. Each application is trying to progress on behalf of the customer — searching for the right product or the right form, ordering,...
Couchbase’s N1QL Query Shatters the Limits of MongoDB™
As NoSQL adoption grows, developers and enterprises alike require a general purpose database to replatform their mission-critical applications and services. These databases are no longer used only by backend services that need sub-second access to the data, but also by...