Category: Couchbase Server
How to transition from Equivalent Indexes to Index Replicas?
In the previous post, we saw the benefits of using index replicas over equivalent indexes. Let’s say you are on Couchbase 4.x and have the following 3 equivalent indexes spread across 3 nodes; and with Couchbase 5.0 Beta available, you...
Azure: Getting Started is Easy and Free
Azure is where Microsoft is spending a lot of its efforts lately. Microsoft is dedicated to making Azure a success. As someone who started working with Azure a little in the early days, I can say that it’s come a...
Bringing Your User Profile Store to Mobile with NativeScript and Angular
Continuing down the path of user profile stores, we had previously seen how to create one with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL as well as a web client front-end for it using Angular. What if we wanted to take this into...
Diving into Couchbase Index Replicas
With Couchbase Server 4.x, customers used to create Equivalent Indexes to satisfy the twin requirements of keeping the indexes highly available and to load balance the N1QL queries. What this meant was that the exact same index definition was used...
Securely Storing Password Data in Couchbase with Golang and BCrypt
When writing web applications that store passwords for your users, it is never a good idea to store them as plain text in your database, whether that be NoSQL or RDBMS. Last year I wrote about using BCrypt with Node.js...
Azure Functions with Couchbase Server
Azure Functions are Microsoft’s answer to Amazon’s Lambdas or Google’s Cloud Functions (aka “serverless” architecture). They give you a way to deploy small pieces of code, and let Azure handle the underlying server. I’ve never used them before, so I...
Creating a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database
There are many use-cases for NoSQL databases, but one that I encounter frequently is in the realm of storing user data. A user profile store is great for NoSQL because profiles often need to be flexible and able to accept...
Couchbase on OpenShift Enterprise and Kubernetes – Developer Preview Available !!
We’re excited to announce the developer preview of Couchbase cluster on Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise and Kubernetes. This project was a close collaboration between Couchbase, Red Hat, Amadeus and JetStack. A joint session on Deploying Couchbase in Red Hat OpenShift...
Defining Scan Consistency in a Node.js with Couchbase Application
Have you ever created an application where you needed to save a document into Couchbase and then immediately query for that created document? It happens to me all the time when I’m developing. Take for example, adding new data into...
Using Couchbase with R
I have seen a lot of interest in the field about using Couchbase with R. It is an easy integration, so here you have some examples to start using it right now. As a little background, R is a language...