Category: Data Modeling
Migrating Data from MongoDB to Couchbase
Prologue This article guides you through a one-time MongoDB migration to Couchbase. You will learn how to export from the MongoDB data structure, import to Couchbase, and do some basic transformation on those documents. All code from this blog is...
Implement FHIR REST server with Couchbase
This is a follow up to my previous post that covered the topic of FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL. In this blog, I will discuss the topic of how to implement the FHIR Search REST API Server over the...
Handle Binary Data Attachments & Blobs with Couchbase Mobile
Couchbase Mobile supports a JSON document style NoSQL data model. In addition to supporting the standard JSON data types, Couchbase Mobile also supports binary data that include images, audio, video, PDF files, etc. A JSON document can be associated with...
Implementing a Scheduler Via Couchbase Eventing (Part 1)
This is the first of a multi-part series to leverage the Couchbase Eventing Service to run multiple scheduled tasks at specific recurring intervals in a cron like fashion completely inside the database without requiring additional infrastructure via a single general-purpose...
The Series on Time Series (in Couchbase): Episode 1
What Is This About So, you have a time series use case? So do I, and this blog article is the proof of it. When I learn about a new subject, I like using the method of loci to memorize...
FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL
Couchbase is a JSON database that has now become an alternative to the traditional RDBMS. It has achieved this, not only by providing the industry-leading Key-Value store and the same query and ACID translation capabilities that organizations have come to...
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types
Link to the series home page: https://blog.couchbase.com/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-1-overview/ As part of data remodeling, while moving from the relational model to the JSON model, you’ll have to consider the data type mapping. In Oracle, you’ll have to create and declare the types...
SQL to NoSQL – 7 Metrics to Compare Query Language
Organizations who want to take advantage of the many benefits of NoSQL document databases, often find that they have two challenges: How to convert their RDBMS schemas to leverage the schema-less document model. Learn a new API/Query to access the...
Is No Processing Better Than Some Processing?
Let’s do a little thought experiment. Yeah, I know, thinking. Who wants to do that? Wait! Before you tune me out and browse on to the next post on sexy indexes… At least give me a couple of minutes. Let’s...
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...