Category: Couchbase Architecture

Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices

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

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

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

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...

December 14, 2021
How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL

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...

December 1, 2021
Functional and Integration testing (FIT) Framework

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...

November 2, 2021
Announcing Couchbase Capella: a Database-as-a-Service for Building Modern Applications

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...

October 19, 2021
So Long, Manual Backup & Restore: Introducing the Couchbase Backup Service

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...

Introducing Ottoman v2.0: An ODM for Node.js & Couchbase

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....

September 30, 2021
What Is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)? And Why Is It Important?

What Is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)? And Why Is It Important?

Two decades on, the global shift to the cloud only continues to accelerate. As part of their larger digital transformation strategy, leading enterprises are investing in modern applications that are easy to use, evolve rapidly and deliver a highly customized...

The N1QL Query Language Now Has a Per-Request Memory Quota

The N1QL Query Language Now Has a Per-Request Memory Quota

Unlike other services, the SQL++ query language so far hasn’t had the option to adjust its memory footprint. Until now. With the release of Couchbase Server 7.0, the Query Service now includes a per-request memory quota. Background The principal reason...

How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0

How to Migrate to Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Whether you’re new to Couchbase or a seasoned vet, you’ve likely heard about Scopes and Collections. If you’re ready to try them out for yourself, this article helps you make it happen. Scopes and Collections are a new feature introduced...

September 3, 2021