Category: Couchbase Architecture

Reduce TCO By 10x Using Couchbase 7.1 For Large Multi-Terabyte Databases
Store hundreds of terabytes of JSON data and query in milliseconds with Couchbase 7.1. Our new storage engine in 7.1, Couchbase Magma, makes Couchbase the most cost-effective and performant database, lowering TCO. With Magma storage engine, Couchbase 7.1 becomes the...

What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1
Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...

Combine Clusters to Achieve High Availability
Whether on-premises or on the public cloud, Couchbase customers have a distinct set of needs: ACID transactions, high durable writes, high availability and high performance. Couchbase’s architecture helps meet these needs while also reducing pain for DevOps and DBAs (perhaps...

Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices
What can a database do to help an oil and gas company lower rising prices at the pump? It turns out, a lot! In this post, I explore some data-related factors of rapidly increasing energy costs and how Couchbase can...

Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 2 Again (as I did in Part 1) I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which...

Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1
Migrating Buckets to Collections & Scopes via Eventing: Part 1 First I want to point out an excellent blog written by Shivani Gupta, How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0, which covers in great detail other methods...

Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service
Modern applications are implemented as a set of a large number of microservices. Each such microservice may run independently of many other microservices. Such applications expect underlying databases to support multi-tenancy. Couchbase Server 7.0 has introduced Scopes and Collections to...

How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL
Data migration is full of challenges. While migrating from a relational database (RDBMS) like SQL Server or Oracle, your main challenge comes at the time of denormalizing migrated documents as per the target data models. With the introduction of scopes...

Functional and Integration testing (FIT) Framework
This blog describes the design and development of the test framework i.e FIT framework for Couchbase transactions in a distributed environment. We’ll start out by introducing you to high-level architectural insight, then we’ll walk you through the development of the...

Announcing Couchbase Capella: a Database-as-a-Service for Building Modern Applications
I’m excited to announce the release of Couchbase CapellaTM, a database-as-a-service that makes it faster, easier, and more affordable for developers and teams to build enterprise applications. Over the past decade, there’s been a strong movement of shifting technologies to...

So Long, Manual Backup & Restore: Introducing the Couchbase Backup Service
Good news, DevOps: manual backups are now a thing of the past. The new Couchbase Backup Service automates once-manual backup and restore tasks to give DevOps and Operations teams time to focus on more important and engaging work while keeping...