Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Fundamentals for Authentication & Authorization
OAuth 2.0 is an industry standard for “delegated authorization” which is the ability to provide an application or client access to data or features offered by another app or service. OAuth 2.0 focuses on authorization and is not prescriptive about authentication. OpenID...
Priya Rajagopal, Principal Product Manager June 22, 2021
New and Improved Import in Couchbase Cloud
We’re happy to announce that the release of Couchbase Cloud 1.6 comes with a number of key improvements, particularly in data import. These feature improvements include Import of documents using the Couchbase Cloud Web UI with various key generation and...
Prasad Doddi June 21, 2021
How to Use Global Secondary Index Partitioning for More Than Partitions
As a field engineer, I work with customers and often see them using Couchbase features with a “thinking-out-of-the-box” approach. One such feature that I see being used more creatively is Global Secondary Index (GSI) partitions. Let’s first discuss GSI and...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer June 17, 2021
How to Take Python Input in Couchbase
Writing software is never easy. Writing software that appeals to users requires interacting with them. So do you get relevant data that you can put to use on behalf of users? Python – the most-wanted language for building software according...
Tyler Mitchell June 2, 2021
Why Data Encryption Is Essential
This article aims to bring awareness around the importance of data encryption, considering the astounding rate at which data is being produced, transmitted and consumed. We will discuss the need for data protection, regulation, and some encryption best practices. Organizations...
Arun Vijayraghavan May 20, 2021
Alternate Address & Port Support for Couchbase/N1QL Clusters
In order to connect to Couchbase deployments on cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) or Kubernetes, we support multi-addresses in the form of alternate addresses. External applications use this facility to communicate with the cluster, but not directly to the nodes....
Isha Kandaswamy May 13, 2021
Craft the Right Query, Get the Right Performance
There is a great blog on getting the best performance out of our Indexing service: “Create the Right Index, Get the Right Performance.”, both that blog and its advice have stood the test of time. So why not have a...
sam.redman April 28, 2021
Develop a User Profile Store and Session Store with Node.js – Video
This companion video complements the Create a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database article. For example, we start from scratch, introduce valuable concepts demonstrating user data storage with NoSQL. We use the Couchbase Node SDK and tools...
Eric Bishard March 19, 2021
Upgrading Couchbase Community Edition
Why Enterprise Edition Couchbase Server is generally available in three flavors: Community Edition (CE), Enterprise Edition (EE) and Couchbase Cloud (DBaaS). Many customers start with Community Edition. They download CE and use it completely free to run development, test and...
Pavel Novokshonov, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase March 15, 2021
Use cases and Best Practices for Distributed Transactions through N1QL
Does Couchbase support transactions? Yes! With 6.5, we introduced the ACID transaction support in Couchbase through the SDKs. The 1st question we got at the time from the customers that heard about it was: Is transaction support available through N1QL?...
Kamini Jagtiani February 24, 2021
Deep Dive on Multi-Factor Authentication
In this article I will explain what multi-factor authentication is, why you should be using it and how to easily implement it with Couchbase Server. We’ll look at using both software and hardware implementations, which offer a tradeoff between cost,...
Ian McCloy, Principal Product Manager, Couchbase February 23, 2021
Couchbase Support for Node-to-node Encryption
Couchbase supports node-to-node encryption or Cluster encryption by adding TLS based encryption to the connections between the nodes within a Couchbase cluster. When customers using Couchbase require us to comply with privacy regulations such as HIPAA (financial or healthcare customers...
Isha Kandaswamy February 18, 2021