Category: Couchbase Server

Data structures with Couchbase and .NET (video)

Data structures with Couchbase and .NET (video)

In February, I wrote a blog about using data structures with .NET (and .NET Core): List, Queue, and Dictionary. Now, I’ve created a video to show the same concepts in action. How to use Couchbase Data Structures with .NET [youtube...

March 27, 2017
Performance Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase 5.0 March Developer Build

Performance Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase 5.0 March Developer Build

N1QL in Couchbase has come a long way since it was first introduced in Couchbase Server 4.0.  In Couchbase 5.0, things are taken to the next level in terms of performance.  In terms of the March 2017 Developer build of Couchbase...

Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Shivansh Srivastava

Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Shivansh Srivastava

In our latest interview for Get to Know Our Couchbase Community Champions, we meet Shivansh Srivastava from Delhi, India. Tell us about yourself and what you do in your daily role? I consider myself to be a polyglot developer and a...

FakeIt Series 3 of 5: Lean Models through Definitions

FakeIt Series 3 of 5: Lean Models through Definitions

Definitions are a way of creating reusable set(s) within your model. It allows you to define a set of properties / values one time, referencing them multiple times throughout your model. Definitions in a FakeIt model are very similar to...

Ubuntu Hyper-V: How to Run Ubuntu (or Any Linux) on Windows

Ubuntu Hyper-V: How to Run Ubuntu (or Any Linux) on Windows

I recently needed to install Linux on Hyper-V in Windows 10. I needed to do this because some internal builds of Couchbase were temporarily broken on Windows, but I still needed to use the latest builds. I’d never used Hyper-V...

March 21, 2017
Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Abbas Ahmed

Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet – Abbas Ahmed

Meet this week’s Couchbase Community Champion – Abbas Ahmed from Rentalcars.com in Manchester! Where are you based and what do you like to do in your spare time? I am based in Manchester, U.K., which is also my birthplace and...

N1QL: A Practical Guide

N1QL: A Practical Guide

N1QL is designed to help developers easily develop applications to solve real-world problems.  Technically, N1QL is designed to give developers and enterprises an expressive, powerful, and complete language for querying, transforming, and manipulating JSON data. N1QL takes inspiration from SQL...

March 17, 2017
Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

Authentication and Authorization with RBAC

In March’s developer build, you can start to see some major changes to authentication and authorization within Role Based Access Control (RBAC) coming to Couchbase Server. These changes are a work in progress: the developer build is essentially a nightly...

March 17, 2017
Feature Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase Server 5.0 March Developer Build

Feature Enhancements to N1QL in the Couchbase Server 5.0 March Developer Build

With the recent March 2017 Developer build of Couchbase there were many bug fixes, but also feature enhancements to core technologies like N1QL.  For example, now indexes can be created on various meta information such as the document cas and...

Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update)

Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update)

In March’s developer build, there are some more updates for N1QL query monitoring and profiling. Go download the March 5.0.0 developer release of Couchbase Server today. Make sure to click the “Developer” tab to get the developer build (DB), and...

March 16, 2017
FakeIt Series 2 of 5: Shared Data and Dependencies

FakeIt Series 2 of 5: Shared Data and Dependencies

There are tons of random data generators available, a simple Google Search will give you more than enough to choose from. However, almost all of these have the same frustrating flaw, which is they can only ever deal with a...

Couchbase 5.0 March 2017 Developer Build Features and Enhancements

Couchbase 5.0 March 2017 Developer Build Features and Enhancements

It is that time again, another month, another developer build for Couchbase.  This time we have a ton of bug fixes and feature enhancements as we get one step closer to the stable release of Couchbase 5.0. The March 2017...