Category: Application Design
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....
Arun Vijayraghavan
July 22, 2020
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...
Keshav Murthy
July 7, 2020
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...
Keshav Murthy
June 14, 2020
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...
Binh Le
June 8, 2020
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...
Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
May 28, 2020
Implementing a 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...
Jon Strabala, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase
May 22, 2020
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...
Oleg Kuzmin, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
April 29, 2020
Flexible Query & Indexing for Flexible JSON Model.
Use N1QL when you’re in a JSON pickle. — Confucius For the JSON data model, the advice is to think of collections as tables, JSON document as denormalized rows and field names as columns – roughly. All this holds in...
Keshav Murthy
April 13, 2020
NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase
Replication has been a crucial part of Database Systems for decades for providing availability and disaster recovery. In recent times, with the evolution of distributed databases to address the need for highly available, scalable and globally distributed deployments operating across...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
March 30, 2020
SQL to NoSQL – 7 Metrics to Compare Query Language
Organizations who want to take advantage of the many benefits of NoSQL document databases, often find that they have two challenges: How to convert their RDBMS schemas to leverage the schema-less document model. Learn a new API/Query to access the...
Binh Le
March 6, 2020
Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
When you need to query documents using SQL, there are two options available in Couchbase. The Query service and the Analytics service. Our blog, N1QL: To Query or To Analyze? provides a detailed overview of both services. I highly recommend...
Evan Pease
March 4, 2020
Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved
We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...