Category: Couchbase Architecture
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
Google Autopilot and the Journey from Manual to Autonomous
It’s fair to say that Kubernetes has done wonders for containerization, becoming a crucial component of organizations’ digital transformation strategies. Kubernetes goes some way to easing the burden of managing various container clusters, while its ease-of-use minimizes the time taken...
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
How did digital architects deal with the COVID-19 challenge?
How did digital architects deal with the COVID-19 challenge, and what is their blueprint for the future? In Couchbase’s fourth annual digital transformation survey, we have already looked at the challenges to digital transformation in 2020, and the roles of...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing
April 19, 2021
Hybrid Cloud Services & Computing Models
What are Hybrid Cloud Services? Everyone has heard the term “hybrid cloud,” but what exactly are hybrid cloud services, and why are they becoming so important to enterprise architectures? And what’s the best way to take advantage of a hybrid...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
April 15, 2021
Distributed Databases: An Overview
Distributed Databases apply the principles of distributed computing to storing data. The simplest example is a database which stores data on two (or more) servers connected by a network. This “cluster” can be accessed and managed as if it was...
Matthew Groves
March 29, 2021
How we implemented Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase
ACID Transactions are a must when you have strict data consistency requirements in your application. The costs of running transactions on distributed systems can rapidly create bottlenecks at scale. In this article, we will give you an overview of some...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
March 23, 2021
Enable AI-driven Insights Using Couchbase: A Practical Framework
Chris Galy, Chief People Officer at Couchbase, explained in an article you can find with a quick Google search that our mission is about channeling our passion to solve hard problems so our customers can innovate and change the world....
Andrea Vasco, Solutions Engineer, Couchbase
February 17, 2021
Data Structures & Queries with Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)
In the Data Structures for NoSQL Applications post, we used simplified JSON data access through native collections, maps, and more. This post demonstrates querying that data using higher-level N1QL queries, the SQL-based language for JSON. Developers can focus on managing...
Tyler Mitchell
January 27, 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
NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL
Dynamo accelerated the NoSQL revolution that’s driving the database industry. Recently, Amazon announced PartiQL – A SQL-Compatible Query Language for their flagship NoSQL database Amazon DynamoDB. This has brought the NoSQL “re:evolution” full circle. It’s wonderful to see the collaborative research from UCSD and...
Keshav Murthy
December 16, 2020