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...
Binh Le
March 12, 2019
Deploy Couchbase Sync Gateway Clusters on Kubernetes
Please refer to this post for the latest version. 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...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
March 8, 2019
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...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
March 4, 2019
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...
Binh Le
February 17, 2019
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. [Part 2 of this article by Even Pease is at: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/part-2-n1ql-to-query-or-to-analyze/] Couchbase’s Query and Analytics Services both support N1QL (SQL...
Keshav Murthy
January 24, 2019
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 database adoption, the “Broad Replatforming” of Enterprise Application. I want to provide...
Binh Le
January 21, 2019
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...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
January 9, 2019
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...
Hod Greeley, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
December 20, 2018
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...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
December 19, 2018
N1QL & SEARCH: Leverage Full-Text Search (FTS) Index in N1QL
With Couchbase v6.5, Full-Text Search is now integrated into the Couchbase N1QL query construct. Customers can now leverage FTS indexes directly with N1QL. This provides developers a single API to combine N1QL exact predicate matching and FTS powerful searching. The...
Binh Le
December 11, 2018
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”...
Keshav Murthy
December 7, 2018
JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy
Co-author: Sitaram Vemulapalli, Principal Engineer, Couchbase R&D. “The answer my friend is hiding in JSON” – Bob Dylan There are a lot of public JSON datasets and then is awesome JSON datasets. Every company, including yours, has stored a lot of...
Keshav Murthy
December 1, 2018