Category: Data Modeling

FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL

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...

April 25, 2020
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Link to the series home page: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ 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...

March 25, 2020
SQL to NoSQL – 7 Metrics to Compare Query Language

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...

March 6, 2020
Is No Processing Better Than Some Processing?

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...

October 29, 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
Cost Based Optimizer for Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)

Cost Based Optimizer for Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)

Authors & Engineering Team: Bingjie Miao, Keshav Murthy,  Marco Greco, Prathibha Bisarahalli. Couchbase, Inc.  A rule-based optimizer knows rules for everything and cost for nothing – Oscar Wilde Abstract Couchbase is a distributed JSON database. It provides distributed data processing,...

August 7, 2019
Synchronized Drawing Apps with Couchbase Mobile

Synchronized Drawing Apps with Couchbase Mobile

Couchbase Mobile contains a robust and powerful embedded NoSQL database, called Couchbase Lite, that can be used within your iOS, Android, and Xamarin apps. The Couchbase Mobile stack also contains Sync Gateway. Sync Gateway enables secure data synchronization across Couchbase...

How to use N1QL to migrate Oracle data into Couchbase

How to use N1QL to migrate Oracle data into Couchbase

Getting the Couchbase server to run on your PC or Mac involves a few simple steps to download the software and spin up a cluster with all the Couchbase services that you need (https://docs.couchbase.com/server/6.0/getting-started/start-here.html). Sample buckets are available with the...

July 9, 2019
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases

Business applications have requirements: take customer orders, deliver customer orders, track shipping, generate inventory report, end of the day/month/quarter business report, generate business dashboards and more.  These requirements evolve slowly. They remain even when you choose a NoSQL database. On...

May 26, 2019
Introducing Couchbase.Lite.Mapping: A New Nuget Package

Introducing Couchbase.Lite.Mapping: A New Nuget Package

Couchbase Lite 2.0 is a powerful NoSQL embedded data store for iOS, Android and .Net Mobile Platforms. Couchbase Lite provides functionality such as database and document CRUD operations, brings powerful Query API with SQL-like semantics and Full-Text-Search (FTS) capabilities. Couchbase Lite Extensibility The Couchbase.Lite and Couchbase.Lite.Enterprise Nuget packages provide a broad...