Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Get a Bigger Picture with N1QL Window Functions and CTE
Whether it is a personal need to understand your spending pattern from looking at the bank transactions, or seeking to improve the sales performance in your organization by looking at the sales activities, the real insights are only visible with...
Deploying Couchbase Sync Gateway Clusters on Kubernetes
The Couchbase Autonomous Operator makes it extremely easy to configure and manage Couchbase Server deployments on kubernetes clusters on public and private clouds. Couchbase Mobile deployments require a Sync Gateway cluster in addition to Couchbase Server clusters. A Sync Gateway...
Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications
Today’s businesses compete in a digital economy where downtime can be deadly. But keeping data highly available is never as simple as backing up one database to be an up-to-the-second copy of another. Instead, modern databases have to function in...
N1QL query with Self Referencing Hierarchy
A data construct that often appears in business application is the hierarchical data structure. Hierarchy captures the parent-child relationship often between the same object. For instance a company structure captures the reporting line between employees. Business organization captures the relationship...
N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
Note: This recommendation note was written in collaboration with Till Westmann and Mike Carey, who lead the Couchbase analytics R&D. Couchbase’s Query and Analytics Services both support N1QL (SQL for JSON). A common question is: “Which service should run my...
Relational to NoSQL – CRM Application Data Visibility
As a follow up to my previous webcast on the subject of Relational to NoSQL database where I discussed that we are in the third phase of the NoSQL adoption, the “Broad Replatforming” of Enterprise Application. I want to provide an...
Background data sync with Couchbase Mobile on iOS: Tutorial
One of the key features of Couchbase Mobile data platform is the ability to sync data across the Couchbase Lite enabled mobile clients and the Sync Gateway. The ability to run apps in the background is typical in the mobile...
Exploring RxJava – Wrapping a Listener Callback
In this post, I’ll show how to convert a callback-based listener style API to a reactive one with RxJava 2. Contents Introduction Objective Getting Started Creating a Source Listing: BasicSource.java Listing: UnboundSource.java Converting to an Observable Listing: Observables.java Instantiation and...
Meeting data protection needs for Couchbase Data Platform
In the world where data is the currency, backup & recovery for a database is as essential as any other defining parameter such as consistency or performance because the customers cannot afford data loss under any circumstance. Couchbase offers a...
JSON to Insights: Analyzing US healthcare Data.
“Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” This isn’t a dataset made with a bed of roses or manicured green grass. A bit more serious. Let’s see if we can quickly learn anything here. The dataset is the following. “name”...