Category: Couchbase Global Secondary Index
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...
Amit Kulkarni
October 23, 2023
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1
Since the start of this year, we (Couchbase Indexing Team) undertook a project to improve indexing service on Capella. This blog discusses the goals we planned to achieve at the start of this project and the list of improvements delivered...
Amit Kulkarni
October 10, 2023
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...
Amit Kulkarni
December 14, 2021
Introducing Ottoman v2.0: An ODM for Node.js & Couchbase
On behalf of the Couchbase team, I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the General Availability of Ottoman 2.0. Ottoman is an Object Document Mapper (ODM) library for Couchbase and Node.js that maps JSON documents stored in Couchbase to native JavaScript objects....
Arun Vijayraghavan
September 30, 2021
Here’s How the Index Service Got Upgraded for Couchbase 7.0
Index builds and updates just got a big performance upgrade with the introduction of Scopes and Collections in Couchbase 7. The Couchbase Server 7.0 release introduces the separation of Bucket data into logical Scopes and Collections on top of the...
Binh Le
August 12, 2021
Announcing Couchbase Server 7.0
Couchbase Server 7.0 solves the requirements of modern application development. In doing so, it settles the debate over using relational or NoSQL databases. There’s no more need to compromise. (Try it out for yourself here or skip straight to the...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing
July 29, 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
Why NoSQL JSON Databases Are So Useful
My family hears me talk about JSON databases rather frequently. Naturally, I had to explain that Jason is not the owner of my company! Instead, many modern databases use JSON as a data format. They usually leave the room at...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing
June 14, 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, Solutions Engineer
April 28, 2021
Index Advisor Supports Self-Verification and Index Pushdowns
Index advisor for N1QL Statement (ADVISE statement ) is officially released in Couchbase Server 6.6. It is designed to make best efforts to provide global secondary index recommendation for each keyspace in the query which is better than all the...
Chang Liu
January 19, 2021