Category: Couchbase Server

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

XDCR, by design, provides customers the flexibility to tune the number of replications for a given bucket depending on the desired performance. New replication requires streaming all existing documents in the bucket, and, therefore, it exhibits a higher mutation rate...

Introduction To Jepsen Testing At Couchbase

Introduction To Jepsen Testing At Couchbase

Intro As most of you know, Couchbase is a database that provides users with a range of consistency and fault tolerance options to ensure that the state of their data meet certain criteria or guarantees. Users can specify varying levels...

August 9, 2019
Get Started with Couchbase Collections Using the Demo App

Get Started with Couchbase Collections Using the Demo App

Collections are a new feature in Couchbase 6.5. They let you group similar documents within each bucket, just as tables in relational databases collect similar records within each database. Collections will be fully supported in Couchbase 7.0, but you can...

August 9, 2019
Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Customers use XDCR for various use cases from high availability to data locality to disaster recovery to cloud migration and hybrid cloud deployments. To meet these use cases, there are a number of circumstances where they would want to replicate...

Intro to Collections – Dev Preview in Couchbase Server 6.5

Intro to Collections – Dev Preview in Couchbase Server 6.5

Couchbase, a document database, allows great flexibility in storing different types of documents in a single bucket (bucket being the equivalent of a database). There is a frequent need to refer to documents of a similar type together e.g. an...

August 9, 2019
Understanding Distributed Multi-Document ACID Transactions

Understanding Distributed Multi-Document ACID Transactions

Couchbase CTO Ravi Mayuram announced Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase Server 6.5. I highly recommend reading Ravi’s blog which highlights how Couchbase transactions are an innovative union of ACID guarantees with scale, high-availability, performance and flexibility. In this blog,...

August 9, 2019
Advanced UI Statistics in Couchbase Server 6.5

Advanced UI Statistics in Couchbase Server 6.5

Statistics in Couchbase Server has been the source of truth for understanding the performance, monitoring usage, and troubleshooting operations for administrators. In 6.5, we are making some integral updates to the display of stats in the Couchbase Server Web Console,...

Index Advisor for N1QL Query Statement

Index Advisor for N1QL Query Statement

Overview Index advisor is introduced in Couchbase server 6.5 as a developer preview feature. It targets at providing secondary index recommendation to help DBAs and developers optimize N1QL query performance. This version is rule-based, in which the index candidates will...

August 9, 2019
Node-to-Node Encryption with Couchbase Server 6.5

Node-to-Node Encryption with Couchbase Server 6.5

With security on everyone’s mind, organizations need to run sensitive workloads under stringent security and compliance standards. Couchbase 6.5 preview brings several new security capabilities, and node-to-node encryption has been a top wish list item for many customers. In this...

Intro to Couchbase Transactions Java API [Video]

Intro to Couchbase Transactions Java API [Video]

Today I’m very excited to announce the release of a project we’ve been beavering away on behind the scenes for some time now: Couchbase Distributed ACID Transactions! This video is a quick guide for you, the busy Java developer, on...

Couchbase 6.5 – Scan Consistency in Analytics

Couchbase 6.5 – Scan Consistency in Analytics

Since the GA back in Nov 2018, Couchbase Analytics is being used in multiple verticals for rapid time to insight – ad-hoc analysis by a payment provider,  shopping cart analysis by an e-tailer, next gen ticket booking engine by a...

Managing LDAP groups for external users in 6.5

Managing LDAP groups for external users in 6.5

In the last blog, we described a new feature in Couchbase Server 6.5 called Couchbase groups. In this blog, we will discuss about the new LDAP group capability in Couchbase Server 6.5, along with easy to follow steps to get...