Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Full-Text Search – 5 Tips To Improve Your Query Performance
Tuning the search query performance is a very important aspect of Full-Text Search as it helps business-critical applications in meeting the SLA requirements of latency and throughput. Without much preamble, let me share a few useful recommendations for troubleshooting your...
Sreekanth Sivasankaran
October 2, 2020
Authentication Using Server-Side X.509 Certificates And N1QL
Authentication and authorization to the N1QL query service in Couchbase works in multiple ways – Passing credentials through a rest request – curl http://localhost:8093/query/service?pretty=true -d “statement=select * from system:keyspaces” -u Admin:pwd Passing credentials using the creds named parameter and/or query...
Isha Kandaswamy
September 10, 2020
Health Checking a Couchbase Cluster
Most databases are configured and sized correctly based on the information available at the time of their initial launch, but they tend to become unhealthy or undersized due to organic growth of their datasets and/or changes in their workload profiles....
Nirvair Singh, Solutions Architect, Couchbase
September 8, 2020
Announcing General Availability Of Couchbase Ruby SDK 3.0 !
” We are delighted to announce the General Availability of Couchbase Ruby SDK 3.0 ! “ Useful Links Read Couchbase Ruby SDK 3.0 documentation Read Couchbase Server 6.5.0 documentation Share your thoughts on the Couchbase Forums See all the...
Arun Vijayraghavan
September 8, 2020
Announcing Couchbase Kafka Connector 4.0
“ Today we are happy to announce the General Availability of the Couchbase Connector 4.0 for Apache Kafka. The Connector allows you to easily build robust and reactive data pipelines that take advantage of stream processing connecting different datastores, applications,...
Arun Vijayraghavan
August 18, 2020
FTS Flex Index vs GSI Indexes in Couchbase Server 6.6
In this article, we will touch on some practical examples starting with N1QL queries using GSI Indexes and simulate a dataset that over time grows not just with document size, but the actual document structure growing as well. Couchbase Server makes flexible...
Eric Bishard
August 12, 2020
New in Couchbase 6.6: Import Docs Using Web Admin Console
Couchbase 6.6 comes with a much needed feature, Import documents using the Couchbase Admin Web Console. This provides an easy way to quickly import small datasets in a variety of formats to compliment cbimport which is a more comprehensive command-line...
Prasad Doddi
August 12, 2020
Cloud Storage Backups with Couchbase (AWS S3 Object Stores)
Couchbase 6.6 introduced the ability to back up the document database directly to AWS S3 cloud computing storage or any other S3-compatible Object Store. Using the cbbackupmgr backup utility you can now specify an S3 bucket as a destination for...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
August 12, 2020
How to Backup Couchbase: A Quick Start Guide
In this article, you will get an overview of how to backup both Couchbase Community and Enterprise editions on Ubuntu and how to set up a basic Couchbase backup strategy. The scripts and techniques described here are not production-ready, you...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
August 11, 2020
Migrating Data from MongoDB to Couchbase
Prologue This article guides you through a one-time MongoDB migration to Couchbase. You will learn how to export from the MongoDB data structure, import to Couchbase, and do some basic transformation on those documents. All code from this blog is...
Douglas Bonser, Principal Solution Engineer, Couchbase
July 30, 2020
Migrating Data from MongoDB to Couchbase, Part 2
Prolog The previous article provided details on how to migrate a MongoDB data set to Couchbase Server. This article shows you how to use the Couchbase SDK to access the data via a Java console application. Code snippets show how...
Douglas Bonser, Principal Solution Engineer, Couchbase
July 30, 2020
A Tale of Two Ejection Methods: Value-only vs. Full
Introduction I would like to thank our Couchbase Server engineering team – especially, Dave Rigby and Jim Walker – for their tremendous help with this article and endless patience with all my questions. Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate...
Oleg Kuzmin, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
July 20, 2020