Category: Data Modeling
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://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...
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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...