Category: Data Modeling

Sample Application with Spring and Angular: GitTalent

Sample Application with Spring and Angular: GitTalent

One of the first big projects I was involved in after I started at Couchbase last year was helping to create a sample application that would be demonstrated at Couchbase Connect. Sample application It was an enormous team effort to...

May 3, 2017
SQL to JSON Data Modeling with Hackolade

SQL to JSON Data Modeling with Hackolade

SQL to JSON data modeling is something I touched on in the first part of my “Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase” series. Since that blog post, some new tooling has come to my attention from Hackolade, which has recently...

April 13, 2017
FakeIt Series 4 of 5: Working with Existing Data

FakeIt Series 4 of 5: Working with Existing Data

FakeIt allows you to provide existing data to your models through JSON, CSV or CSON files. This data is exposed as an inputs variable in each of a models *run and *build functions.

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...

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...

FakeIt Series 1 of 5: Generating Fake Data

FakeIt Series 1 of 5: Generating Fake Data

There are countless blog posts on data modeling, key and document patterns. All of these posts give a great introduction into how to structure and model your documents in Couchbase, but none of them tell you what to do next....

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as...

March 7, 2017
Data Structures: Native Collections New in Couchbase 4.6

Data Structures: Native Collections New in Couchbase 4.6

Data Structures in Couchbase 4.6 is our newest time-saving SDK feature.  These allow your client applications to easily map your array-based JSON data into language specific structures. Leveraging native collections support in Couchbase will save you time and hassle: Easily map JSON...

February 16, 2017
Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 2: Data Migration

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 2: Data Migration

In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as compared to Couchbase Server. In three parts, I’m going to...

February 14, 2017
Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 1: Data Modeling

Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 1: Data Modeling

In this series of blog posts, I’m going to lay out the considerations when moving to a document database when you have a relational background. Specifically, Microsoft SQL Server as compared to Couchbase Server. In three parts, I’m going to...

February 3, 2017
.NET Core List, Queue, and Dictionary Data Structures backed by Couchbase

.NET Core List, Queue, and Dictionary Data Structures backed by Couchbase

The addition of the sub-document API to Couchbase 4.5 has paved the way for efficient data structure support in Couchbase. In this blog post, I’m going to show a demo of three types of data structures you can use with...

February 2, 2017
Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents

Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents

I’m busy working on some SQL Server to Couchbase Server blog posts, but in the meantime, I’d thought I’d leave you a little chestnut of JSON goodness for the Christmas weekend. Wikibase has a huge database of information. All kinds...

December 22, 2016